Aljustrel: Explosion in would wash is one seriously injured. Transferred to Lisbon.
An explosion inside would wash the Aljustrel mine, this afternoon caused a worker burns a subcontractor company that provides service inside the mining complex.
Update: Given the serious condition of the injured is found, having suffered burns on the upper and lower limbs, It will be transferred by ambulance to the Burn Unit of the Hospital of St. Joseph, in Lisbon.
the reasons that led to the explosion are not known to have occurred at about 17,00 hours and the extent of worker injuries, of 32 year old, natural Pampilhosa da Serra, District of Coimbra, and second source of Beja Hospital "man entered conscious and is being evaluated, to know if you have to be transferred to a hospital in Lisbon ", justified.
According to the District Command Operations and Relief (CDOS) Beja, on site were nine operational and three vehicles of the Fire and GNR Aljustrel and car life support immediately (SIV) Castro Verde.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN), the wounded, considered to be grave was assisted on site by fire Aljustrel and then transported to the Emergency Department of Beja Hospital by SIV.
During the year only two accidents occur in the Mining Complex of Almina, in Aljustrel, one in the same area would wash and another in the Feitais mine, having two workers lost their lives and a third suffered serious injuries.
On 7 March, a man, of 35 year old, He died when supplied a water tank, known as Joper, and it was caught by the tractor PTO.
The accident occurred at 14,23 hours, na lavaria, when Nuno Pinto, Natural Milhundos, in Penafiel county, worker company Terraplagens machines Biniter-Rental, Lda, based in that locality, It was slaughtered by the shaft transmitting mechanical propulsion of the tractor and Joper.
Before, on 11 Feb., one dead and one seriously injured, It was the result of the fall of a light vehicle goods 4×4 to a moat, no interior da minas de Feitais, located in the place of Iron Mesh, in Aljustrel.
The two workers, mechanical profession, They are working for the Portuguese company Mining Development (EPDM), providing services for Almina, owns the Aljustrel mine.
The accident occurred shortly after 11,00 hours, when the car fell into a ditch 40 meters deep from an altitude of 310 To the 350 meters, dragging the two workers inside.
Joaquim Maria Guerreiro, of 46 year old, residing in Valley Eiras, Parish of Ermidas-Sado, municipality of Santiago do Cacém, Vehicle driver, He was incarcerated between the steering wheel and the plates and died instantly.
The serious injured, John Court Black, of 25 year old, resides in Ervidel, county Aljustrel, He was transported to the Beja Hospital, presenting a clinical picture defined as "very complicated", having survived. Second was found at the time the LN, the accident occurred on a section of the mine with a takedown open, unsigned, which meant that the car had fallen into the void.
other cases
20 May 2015: A fall from a conveyor, a height 190 meters, led to Joaquim Gomes death, of 49 year old, resident in Odivelas, Ferreira do Alentejo county.
6 October 2017: A man, of 48 year old, He was seriously injured following a collision between a dump (tipper truck) and an open box van, a 200 meters deep, leaving your driver jailed. He polytrauma.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
