A 59-year-old worker dies in the renovation works of the Urnieta Sports Center

a 59-year-old worker has passed away this friday in Urnieta (Gipuzkoa) when he was hit by the boom of a truck in the renovation works of the municipality’s Sports Center.

Apparently, for reasons that are being investigated, one of the arms of the truck has lost its balance and has moved the boom, beating the worker and killing him, as explained by the ELA union. The deceased worker worked for the company Pavimentos Tecnológicos Zarra.

It’s a statement IS IT OVER THERE he has lamented the death of the worker and has conveyed his support to his family and friends. The union has also denounced “the precarious situation currently suffered by workers in this sector.”

ELA has stressed that with this new death, so far this year at least 51 people have died in Euskal Herria, the tenth in Gipuzkoa.

In his opinion, “the endless subcontracting networks that occur in the jobs awarded by the Public Administration are a clear example of this precariousness, especially in the case of jobs in the construction sector.”

For this reason, he stressed that “the continuous legal breaches in labor and preventive legislation, added to the harsh working conditions and the pressure to which they are subjected in these jobs, become perfect cocktails for accidents to occur, such as it has happened in this case “, to which has been added the” absolute conscious negligence towards the sector on the part of the Administration “.

The union has announced demonstrations to denounce this latest death, although it has not specified when they will take place.

On Amurrio (Álava) another construction worker died this Friday. In this case, it is a 54-year-old man who has died after falling from a scaffold in a construction site on Calle Barrena.