2023-10-24 01:09:03
Events.- Relatives and lawyer of the 57-year-old citizen Isaías Méndez, a welder who died in the month of August, while working, assured that Petroindependiente flatly refuses to recognize that the welder died from an electric shock and not from a heart attack. while fulfilling his assignments.
In this regard, lawyer Billy Gasca indicated that the worker did not have the necessary safety equipment at the time to carry out the work he was carrying out.
He called on the Public Ministry (MP) to expedite the case and continue the corresponding criminal investigations to determine who or whom is responsible for the incident.
Likewise, Aura Elena de Méndez, the victim’s widow, testified that her husband died because the company does not provide its employees with optimal conditions in terms of industrial safety. “The company refuses to acknowledge that my husband’s cause of death was due to receiving an electric shock and not a heart attack as initially stated.”
She expressed that it is unfortunate that her husband died in that circumstance, given that the company does not comply with safety parameters. «There are no units, not even a first aid kit. “We demand justice,” she said.
Once again, both family members and the defense attorney in the case of citizen Isaias Méndez demand that the authorities speed up the investigations.
Evidence
The relatives affirm that the investigation report of the governing body Inpsasel details three important aspects: cause, root and finding.
Among the causes, it is mentioned that: there is no maintenance and inspection program for welding equipment, the specific electrical risk hazard is not properly identified and the worker was not fit from a health point of view for the specific work in the area. of the platform.
In the root cause category, two systemic factors/human factor aspects are highlighted.
In addition to this, certain aspects are expanded in the range of findings, including: that the worker did not have a protective apron, nor a fireproof protective hood, and was not fit from a health point of view.
Gayledys Barrientos
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THE ZULIA REGIONAL
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