The 31 -year -old operator suffered burns in almost the entire body after the explosion of a steam pipe in unit 5 of Renté.
Madrid, Spain.- A worker of the Antonio Maceo thermoelectric plant (Renté), in Santiago de Cuba, was seriously injured during the early hours of this Monday after the rupture of a steam pipe at 10 atmospheres in unit 5 of the plant, recently synchronized with 25 megawatts of power.
In accordance with the complaint published in The Facebook page the scissors, The 31 -year -old man suffered burns in 89% of his body and, in the middle of panic, fell down a ladder of more than five meters, which caused him a strong cranial trauma. His status was qualified as critic and reserved.
The publication indicates that maintenance in the thermoelectric plant are made “with empty hands, with nothing, absolutely nothing”, in reference to the lack of supplies for the repair and operation of the equipment. Thus explained workers from the aforementioned medium.
After the accident, the operator’s own partners had to collect money to acquire eggs, a product used in the treatment of burns, due to the shortage of supplies in the hospital where it was admitted.
According to the scissors, authorities of the Ministry of Interior ordered to silence the information to prevent the dissemination of details about what happened and the identity of the injured worker.
The accident occurs in the context of the deep energy crisis that Cuba lives, where the blackouts of more than 12 hours a day have become routine and the generating plants accumulate breakdowns one after another. The inability of the regime to maintain or undertake deep remodeling in the obsolete thermoelectric plants forces workers to overload work and force continuous starts in equipment that no longer resist the effort.
Unit 5 of Renté, in particular, had been operating for years intermittently, with frequent stops since 2024 and had only managed to restart partial operations shortly before the incident.
To this is added the chronic scarcity of resources, both in the plant itself and in the health system, which left the injured without adequate care at first. The official secrecy, which attempts to silence accidents and their consequences, does nothing but underline the structural precariousness that operators support and, ultimately, the entire population.
According to the report Work protection. Selected indicatorsin 2024 934 occupational accidents were registered in Cuba, for a total of 975 injured workers and 52 deaths.
