A lightning strike caused an electric shock in front of the Nickel Union Services Company in Moa (Holguín) and ended life of one of the workers, Dunielkis Fonseca Borges, in addition to affecting six other people. All of them were employees of the state company and were waiting for transportation to return home when the event occurred.
As a result, Fonseca Borges, momma, who was a specialist in economic management, had to be resuscitated at the place of discharge, but died after going into cardiorespiratory arrest again upon arrival at the Guillermo Luis hospital, where all the employees were treated.
Another of those affected is pregnant but, like the rest of those treated, she was out of danger.
Lightning kills an employee of Unión del Níquel, a Cuban partner of the Canadian Sherritt in Moa
According to told the official newspaper from Holguin Now Bárbaro Aguilera Pelegrín, health and safety specialist of the Emergency group of the nickel company Comandante Pedro Sotto Alba, his troops rushed to the scene after hearing the cries for help from those affected, since their facilities are located a few meters from the point where the lightning struck
Three people were lying on the ground when the emergency teams arrived, although only one – the deceased – had to be revived.
The death of Fonseca Borges is the third death of a worker in the nickel industry in Moa that must be mourned in the last two months. On May 17, the Canadian company Sherritt International reported the death in a work accident of a worker after falling from a ladder at the nickel-cobalt mine located in that eastern town.
On April 24, another company employee died, this time in an accident with a vehicle.
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