Serpa: Conveyor fall, na antiga EPAC, kills worker.
Conveyor fall kills worker. Accident occurred in the silos of the old EPAC. The man proceeded to load grain when the structure gave way.
A man of 55 year old, born in Vila Nova de São Bento, Serpa county, He died early on Thursday, following the fall of a conveyor belt, when the employee of a trucking company proceeded to load inside the grain of a warehouse of the Agricultural Cooperative of Serpa (CASE) for a truck.
The accident occurred at about 08,05 hours, when, for reasons that the Authority for Working Conditions (ACT) It is to find, the carpet fell and hit his head worker, causing it a serious head injury.
The man was transported still alive for Serpa Hospital, where she died, the victim's body will be transported to the Medico-Legal Office in Beja, where it will be autopsied.
The worker belongs to a town of transport company Nova de São Bento and the premises where the accident occurred belong to the Agricultural Cooperative of Serpa, company's universe of Agricultural Cooperative and Beja Brinches, located in the old silos of EPAC.
In the rescue operations were involved 8 operating of Serpa Fire, SIV de Moura e a GNR, supported by four cars.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
