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A 55-year-old worker dies at Abando Train Station after falling into a vacuum while cleaning crystals
  • The 55-year-old man died as he fell from a height of three meters when he was cleaning the crystals of a train station cafeteria. This year was worker number 54 who died in Euskal Herria from work stoppages.
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According to LAB, the man who worked for a subcontracted company was arrested at Donostia Hospital. The fall occurred on Monday morning, when the Café Bar of the train station cleaned the crystals of La Parada.

Despite working in the public building, it did not comply with the minimum prevention measures to prevent falls das.Se it is the tenth worker who has died after a fall in 2024. The union has added that it is a recurring, autonomous pattern and subcontratado.Las falls account for more than 12.5% of deaths at work.

According to LAB, the lack of minimum safety measures in the cleaning sector is particularly dramatic. It has denounced the lack of control on the part of governments and the lack of control on the part of employers.

The LAB trade union has called for participation in mobilizations to denounce the accident at work in Bilbao.