As the report of the LAB union shows, there have been 46 occupational accidents in the Basque Country this year. In Navarre there have been twelve occupational accidents in the first half of this year and it is the autonomous community with the worst data of occupational accidents with a reduction of one hundred thousand workers, one hundred points above the state average.
Two workers died this morning in Bizkaia and Navarre after a fall. These are workers 46 and 47 who die in an occupational accident in Euskal Herria, as shown in the LAB trade union report entitled “Precariousness is the killer”.
According to the Basque Department of Security, at 11:10 in the morning a 47-year-old man fell from the roof of a pavilion on Larrondo Street in Loiu. After the arrival of the emergency services, the man had already died, so only his death could be certified.
Twenty minutes later another worker died at the council of Olleta, in the municipality of Leoz, in Navarra. At 11:30 in the morning, a 28-year-old man has died after jumping from a phone post on the Lerga Road. According to SOS Navarra, firefighters from Tafalla, the ambilance, the medicalized helicopter and the Foral Police have come to the Camino de Lerga. The operator has fallen from a height of eight meters and, in this case, the emergency services have also been unable to prevent the death of the worker.
Navarre has 12 occupational accidents in the first half of this year
This is the 12th fatal occupational accident that occurs in Navarre in this semester and, according to the Diario de Noticias de Navarra, a quarter of the serious, very serious and fatal occupational accidents that occur in the community are due to falls. In view of this, the Sub-Directorate of Public and Occupational Health of the Navarro Institute of Public and Occupational Health has warned that these incidents "can be avoided if appropriate safety measures are adopted". Thus, the Foral Community is the community with the worst incidence rate of occupational accidents with a reduction of one hundred thousand workers, one hundred points above the state average.
The Instituto de Salud Pública y Laboral de Navarra (ISPLN) has investigated a total of 509 serious, very serious or fatal accidents between 2014 and 2023, of which 122 were related to falls to height. In total, 12 people have died, and the construction sector has become the one with the highest number of deaths among all.