The man had to be transferred to the Santa Lucía Hospital, from which he was discharged after being treated, and his health is not in danger.
This Thursday a worker at the Repsol factory in Escombreras fainted, caused by heat stroke, when he was working on one of the transport trucks used by the company, according to the STR Workers’ Union. The man had to be transferred to the Santa Lucía Hospital, from which he was discharged after being treated, and his health is not in danger.
This type of used machinery is considered ATEX, due to the risk of working in possible explosive atmospheres, so they are closed and only have ventilation equipment integrated within the truck itself, to mitigate high temperatures. Some measures that the workers consider “inappropriate” due to their “malfunction”.
In addition, the STR workers’ union filed a complaint with the Labor Inspection “so that the poor working conditions of said factory are resolved,” according to a statement. Fermín Ferrer, Secretary of Organization and worker at said factory, stated that “we are not going to tolerate, under any circumstances, that the health of the workers be put at risk, and that is enough of the ineffectiveness of this works council, which more than defending the workers seems to be against them».
For his part, the union’s oil general secretary, Victor Bat-Llosera, sent an email to the president of the company committee, requesting his participation, if authorized, in the investigation of the event.
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