MADRID, Spain.- Cuban Iosbel Olivera Mesa, 36 years old, lost his life this Wednesday afternoon after falling under machinery at the Urbano Noris sugar mill, in the province of Holguín.
Olivera Mesa was a custodian at the plant and was in a manufacturing area that was not working, “but the second-rate auger – as the machinery is known – came into operation, and the unfortunate accident occurred,” according to what he reported through Facebook the local medium Radio San Germán The Voice of Sugar.
“The custodian went to get sugar from inside one of the milling machines that were stopped and the mill started to walk,” said the official journalist of the newspaper in comments Vanguard from Villa Clara Francisnet Diaz Rondon.
“Olivera Mesa suffered injuries incompatible with life, and thanks to the efforts of the factory workers, and specialists from the Ministry of the Interior, it was possible to recover the body to carry out the necropsy, and subsequent family wake,” said the local media. .
The event has generated hundreds of comments expressing condolences to the relatives of the victim, who was the father of three children.
Some users pointed out that the management of these plants must keep risk areas marked and train workers to avoid fatal accidents like this.
An endless screw conveyor, the machinery that caused the death of Iosbel Olivera Mesa, is a mechanism that uses a rotating screw blade, called a “wing or propeller”, generally inside a “U” shaped tube or channel, to move liquid, powder and granular materials.
The Urbano Noris sugar mill began the current harvest on November 21, with the “commitment to produce 23 thousand 793 tons of sugar”.
