Two workers died and at least four others were injured on Thursday after two cranes collapsed in the northern port of Gijón (Asturias), emergency services said.
The accident happened at around 11am while several workers were dismantling port cranes, according to Spanish media reports.
Two mobile cranes which were being used to dismantle a stationary crane ‘gave way’ for yet to be determined reasons, ‘dragging down the six workers involved in the work’, Gijón’s firefighting force wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
Two workers aged 24 and 49 died in the accident while four others were injured, two of them seriously, it added.
Labour Minster Yolanda Díaz said she regretted the deaths and wished the injured ‘a speedy recovery’.
‘No one should put their life at risk at work. It is necessary to continue to strengthen occupational risk prevention so that this does not happen again,’ she added on X.
Lamento el fallecimiento de los dos trabajadores del puerto de Gijón y deseo la pronta recuperación de los heridos. Nadie debería poner en riesgo su vida en el trabajo. Es necesario seguir reforzando la prevención de riesgos laborales para que no vuelva a ocurrir. https://t.co/jfcAzwrlSi
— Yolanda Díaz (@Yolanda_Diaz_) September 5, 2024
Desde el @PuertoDeVigo queremos enviar todo nuestro apoyo a nuestros compañeros de @PuertodeGijon y a su Comunidad Portuaria, tras el trágico suceso ocurrido hoy https://t.co/KJxPI2Gtao
— Puerto de Vigo (@PuertoDeVigo) September 5, 2024
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