What was going to become a unitary concentration of the Córdoba CCOO and UGT class unions this Friday in the tenders for the death of a young worker after being crushed by a forklift when he exercised as a waiter in a catering in a store in the Torrecilla de la Capital It amounts to five people, and not two. The information, as criticized, had not been facilitated by the Occupational Risk Prevention Center, as usual in these cases.
In a statement, both unions lamented “with great regret”, the death of the young waiter, especially because of the circumstances surrounding this tragedy, and by the worker’s youth, and transferred their most “deep pain to this” terrible circumstance to family and friends “in an act that was supported by Avaela, the AUGC and Hoac, to which they thanked their presence.
The Secretary of Occusional Health of UGT Córdoba, Jaime Sarmiento, stressed that “from these unions our pain is even greater, because he was just a boy who was starting to work” and stressed that, therefore, “we are demanding that in this month there are so many parties in Córdoba, with so many companies that hire workers, that the labor authorities are pending that they are legally and watched so that they are legally of business, who are not the majority, but they are subjects who use people in need to enrich themselves at the expense of their health and safety, they cannot do it. ” Sarmiento appealed to the Occupational Risk Prevention Center of the Board’s Employment Delegation because “the cases of those three dead, especially of the month of March, we did not have them despite sharing a group on WhatsApp for this information, and these three deaths have not been communicated until this morning”.
-The Secretary of Labor Health of CCOO of Córdoba, Aurelio Martín, recalled that “today we concentrated here for which we understood that it was the second death in an accident and we were three more deaths of which we had no knowledge: one by infarction, another by fall from height and another for crushing due traumatic, and the other three due to traumatic accidents. ”
For his part, the Secretary of UGT Córdoba also highlighted the high level of accidents due of the area where these companies are found. ” Besides. Sarmiento said that, “despite having knowledge of some details related to accidents, we cannot communicate them because, with this, we could hinder the corresponding investigations.”
Finally, the head of CCOO said that “a working person cannot die on the first day of work. If this happens it is because something has not done well” and “we have to put foot on the wall once and for all and if the administration does nothing, because perhaps we have to take another type of measures.” In this sense, Martín said that “we are considering presenting ourselves as a particular accusation in this type of facts because we understand that this is not accidental, there is a cause and we have to reach the end so that it does not happen again.”
