Ourique: Worker found crushed under tractor wheel
A man of 66 years was found dead under a tractor wheel when looked fed to cattle. The man was seen alive last Friday afternoon. He was found dead in a farm where he worked.
A farm worker of Mount Miguéis, Conception parish, municipality of Ourique, not seen since the late afternoon of Friday, It was found lifeless yesterday under the wheel of a tractor.
It was the neighbor of a nearby hill giving the lack of José Mateus Pereira, single, of 66 year old, She sought him out and about the 10,40 hours given to the body under the tractor's rear right wheel was stuck. It was not possible to determine when the accident occurred, but, it would appear that there has been during the day Saturday.
The tractor was inside a corral of a dairy farm and everything points that the worker will have transported hay for the animals and for unknown reasons was caught by the wheel. Has learned the JN, the tractor was working to consume all the fuel and given the state in which the body was, the wheel will run over the victim's body to stick. A witness said that "the scene was too violent".
Military of the Center for Criminal Investigation of Aljustrel GNR were on site and found no evidence of crime.
For the site were displaced Firefighters Volunteer Ourique, the immediate support of car life (SIV) Castro Verde, military criminal investigation and Territorial GNR, a total of 18 operational and 9 Car. It was necessary to use another tractor, to raise agricultural machine involved in the accident, since the victim was incarcerated.
The victim's body was found by Ourique Health Delegate who confirmed the death, and was taken to the Medical Office Legal Beja, where it will be autopsied.
Accidents with farm machinery
The last accident with tractors had occurred on Saturday in Friande, Felgueiras, which caused another fatality. In the first half of this year, 29 people died and 50 They were seriously injured in accidents involving agricultural tractors.
Portugal is one of the 3 European countries where there are more victims of accidents with tractors. Between 2013 and 2018 They were recorded 416 fatalities in accidents with tractors. According to the report "Claims - Agricultural vehicles - Year 2018", made available by the Authority for Working Conditions (ACT), February 2019, in 2018 were 58 the fatalities, 87,9 % of which involved tractors agricultural or forestry.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
