Ferreira do Alentejo: Worker, natural de Alvito, He died in the works of IP8 / A26.
Seventy-nine people have lost their lives this year in Portugal as a result of industrial accidents. Yesterday in Figueira Knights (Ferreira do Alentejo) there was the third fatality this week and sixth district of Beja.
A man of 54 years died in the works of the future IP8 / A26, next to Monte da Malhada Velha, the National Road 259, at km 24, after being crushed by the blade of a backhoe.
VirgÃlio António Filipe, natural de Alvito, I was working on a shackle cement when he was hit by machine which fell on the ground and hit the worker. So it was possible to determine the shunter machine will not be aware of the presence colleague at the place where maneuvered the backhoe.
The man was shot in the lower abdomen area, having suffered a puncture with the blade tips, having had immediate death, which was confirmed by the doctor of medical vehicle emergency and resuscitation (VMER).
On site were also the Ferreira do Alentejo with Fire 10 operational and 4 Car, having transported the victim's body to the Medico-Legal Office of Beja Hospital, where it will be autopsied.
The Authority for Working Conditions (ACT) He did move to the place two teams of inspectors, with the inspector general, Pedro Brás, moved purposefully to the crash site. Asked to talk about the situation that occurred the death of worker, He said that "in the first instance there is the approach of the machine to an employee who should not have happened", adding that the number of deaths in work accidents "transform us in a country far from modernity we would like everyone to have", concluded.
Virgilio Santos, worked for one of the sub-contractor companies the works of the future IP8 / A26, They have recently resumed, He is married with two children, both military da GNR. Um no posto territorial de Vila Alva (Cuba) and the other in Albufeira Traffic Detachment.
Pedro Brás (Inspector General ACT)
"The seventy-nine dead who have registered this year in working TIENTS, are accident indicators that lead me to think that the sanctions rules will not be enough, You have to start criminal terms of a more assertive manner, for further deterrence ".
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
