Top Spanish workers unions, Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO.) and Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) have said that they will bring the incident before the Inspección de Trabajo y Fiscalía

According they called a protest turn out on the 22nd of last month against workplace accidents, with this last one being the fourth in the province in just one month.

Secretary General of the UGT, María Angustias Díaz, said, “We mustn’t see these accidents as something inevitable,” adding, “Workers falling to their deaths continue to occur yet they are accidents that are easily avoided.”

She confirmed that the cast-in-place, shuttering molds were not protected and the the 42-year-old worker was working on an arched construction when he fell, resulting in fatal head injuries. There was no protective netting or safety rail and he was not wearing a safety harness.

The victim had fallen only 2.5 metres but it was enough to end his life. The building work was underway on Calle Cruz Baja.

The worker was employed by a small, local, construction company which reportedly had not invested in workplace-hazard formation nor union representation for the protection of workers.

On the following day to the accident on the 21st, a group of Paduleños gathered outside the Town Hall to attend a minute’s silence for the victim, Plácido Hernández, which had been organised by the Mayor of Padul, Celia Villena.

(News/Noticias: Padul, Valle de Lecrin, Granada, Andalucia)