The man who operated the crane to carry out the cleaning of the facade of new shopping center is admitted to the Uruguayan Medical, after the fall of the forklift this Monday morning. This is Alejandro Barrosa, who is also the owner of Leal Técnicas Vertical, a company hired by Nuevocentro Shopping to carry out the task at these facilities.
“He was operating the machine; he suddenly fell into the void and is now admitted to the Medical”said the foreman of the company Leal Técnicas Vertical, Leandro Perdomo, in dialogue with The Observer. “The company is insured,” added Perdomo.
A representative of the Single National Union of Construction and Annexes (Sunca) who was at the scene told The Observer that the crane had a misplaced leg. When they both fell they were cleaning the letter “t” for Géant.
This company was hired by Nuevocentro to clean the shopping centerand, in turn, used machinery from Ramírez, a company that provides rental services for forklifts.
The foreman stated that the task that triggered the accident was part of the cleaning maintenance in which they had been working for a week in Nuevocentro Shoppingand that he had already done on other occasions, at least in the last two years.
“We never had a similar problem” to the one this Monday, Perdomo concluded.
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The crane operator and owner of the company contracted by the mall is hospitalized, according to Leal’s foreman
From Nuevocentro, meanwhile, they explained that it is “a outsourced company that he was doing work on a high façade, that’s why he used the crane, and he fell”.
“It’s a disgrace,” they added from the mall. “For our part we are collaborating with the police so that they can determine the causes,” they asserted in exchange with El Observador. Nuevocentro Shopping resolved this Monday morning close the mall due to bereavement throughout the day.
Police sources confirmed that a 49-year-old woman died this Monday morning after the crane fell on the Géant side, in the area of Luis Alberto de Herrera and Bulevar Artigas.
