a worker, of 53 year old, suffered serious injuries, when he worked at the Neves-Corvo mine, in Castro Verde municipality, managed by Somincor, owned by the Canadian multinational Lundin Mining Corporation, when he was caught by a machine that crushed him.
The accident occurred at about 14,50 hours when the worker, born in Aveiro, employee of a subcontractor, worked in Lavarias and was caught by a machine.
After the alert, the company's emergency services were immediately mobilized., also the Castro Verde Volunteer Firefighters (BVCV), who, after stabilizing the victim, transported him to the Municipal Stadium of Castro Verde, having been transported by the INEM helicopter based in Loulé.
The aircraft then landed on Synthetic Turf No. 2, of the Sports Complex of Beja, where a fire ambulance transported them to the Emergency Service of the José Joaquim Fernandes Hospital in the Alentejo city, where it will be assessed with the aircraft waiting whether it will be necessary to move the victim to a hospital in Lisbon.
Beyond Somincor Emergency Services, Castro Verde and Beja Volunteer Firefighters, GNR and Authority for Working Conditions (ACT), in addition to the INEM helicopter team.
Four fatal accidents at the Neves-Corvo mine
The last accident occurred last day 12 Feb., when Nuno do Carmo, of 42 year old, natural of Albernoa, county Beja, but living in Castro Verde, died as a result of a landslide that left the man and the machine he worked with, buried. This was the fourth fatal accident at the mine, the last three years.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
