A brigade from the Specialized Construction and Assembly Company (ECME) began recovery work at the Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE) Antonio Guiterasin Matanzas, where last Friday there was a accident in the chimney area that cost the lives of two workers.
Work is now underway at the site to remove the soot that still remains inside the chimney and to clean the area around that sector, according to a report of the Cuban News Agency (ACN).
Misbel Palmero Aguilar, director of the CTE, explained that the work schedule is being studied to solve the damage to the structure after the collapse of a dividing wall that also caused various injuries to two other workers present on the site at the time of the collapse. incident.
The manager confirmed that they have the material and human resources to carry out the task, and that “it must not exceed the time allocated for the maintenance of the block”, which, as has been announced, must conclude in the month of May. .
Palmero ratified that the construction actions will include the lifting of the side walls, where several perforations were made to facilitate the location and rescue of the body of one of the workers who died buried by the rubble.
They find the body of the fourth injured worker at the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant
The feasibility of building a new partition inside the chimney is also being analyzed, the publication refers to.
The ACN recalls that after the collapse of the dividing wall seven meters high, four ECME workers were trapped in the lower part of the chimney. Two were rescued a short time later and treated at the Comandante Faustino Pérez Provincial Hospital, in the main city of Matanzas, in addition to a third who helped in the rescue efforts.
Specialized forces from the Fire Department and the Red Cross participated in them, along with workers from the CTE itself. Personnel from the Ministries of Public Health, Construction, the Interior, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces were also incorporated. It was also necessary to transfer specialized machinery from Havana to drill holes in the walls of the chimney.
The generation of electricity in Guiteras, the largest unitary block in the country, covers a large part of the demand of western Cuba from the use of national crude oil.
