A 35 -year -old lin suffered burns in both arms after a working accident in San Miguel del Padrón while repaireding an electric driver damaged, and receives emergency care in a hospital in the capital.
Osmani Hernández Madroza, specialized liner of the Havana electricity company, was injured around 2:00 pm on Friday by making electrical contact at the corner of Pepe Prieto and San Manuel.
According to the electric union in FacebookHernández remains aware and is treated at the Miguel Enrique Hospital, while labor and health safety and health specialists investigate the causes of the incident.
According to unofficial sources, the man was helped by neighbors and passers -by, who rescued him and took him to the hospital.
This incident occurs in the midst of the recovery of the Cuban electrical system After the most recent total disconnection last Wednesday, after the “unforeseen departure” of the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant, of Matanzas. This is the second general fall of SEN in 2025, and the fifth since October last year.
In recent years, occupational accidents that involve Lighters have taken place. In March 2024, Havana’s electricity company regretted The death of Leonel Barroso Machíndeceased in “work accident, while working in the recovery of the electric service” affected after a storm.
From the same social network, in the group “Consolation Lins”, it was explained that Barroso lost his life “after an operation that lasted almost 4 hours” and that the death occurred “product to a fall of a post.”
Further back, in November 2022, Another young worker of the UNE He died during the work to restore the electricity service in the western province of Pinar del Río, the most affected by the Hurricane Ian.
Currently the island suffers an exacerbation of the prolonged energy crisis due mainly to the antiquity and poor condition of its thermoelectric plants and the chronic fuel shortages.
On the day of this Friday the service was affected 24 hours a day and the problem remained throughout the morning of today. The maximum affectation due to generation capacity deficit was 1,939 MW at 8:40 p.m., superior to what is planned by the output of Unit 3 of CTE Cienfuegos, UNE said in its most recent part.
For today, the company calculates in the “peak schedule” a maximum electricity generation of 1 602 MW and a demand of 3 400 MW. The deficit will be 1,798 MW and the affectation will reach 1 868 MW in the afternoon, when demand increases.
