The Madrid County Court upheld a three-month prison sentence for the coach and CEO of the water treatment company Tramasa SL. not providing the necessary training and not warning the worker of the danger died while removing an ultraviolet lamp.
In a March 14 decision accessible to Europa Press, the court fully upholds the sentence of Criminal Court No. 16 in Madrid, which described the events at the San Pedro military base. Madrid municipality Colmenar Viejo, where It is the military pharmacy center of the defense.
There, in particular, Medicines for the Spanish army are produced using purified water stored in a tank.Pressure equipment consisting of ultraviolet lamps located on the axis of a steel cylinder with pressurized water circulating inside the lamp.
In October 2017, after a breakdown, the company’s worker – workshop manager went to fix it. To do this, he had to advance removing the lamp so that its properties are known, can measure and define for later modification.
Died while removing the lamp
Accordingly, the worker began to disassemble the electrical system of the lamp and remove the base. At that moment, the arm was broken and the pressure of the water caused the lamp to eject, hitting the operator in the chest and death on the spot.
According to the decision, the deceased person, Not trained to maintain UV lamps and was not informed of the danger of removing the lamp without stopping the system.
And besides, the technical director and CEO of the company did not comply. “Your obligation to ensure worker safety” Not preparing the risk assessment of the UV lamp maintenance work. It also did not give the operator “the necessary information on how to do the job safely”.
The manager tells the worker “before work maintenance should be stopped and disconnect the power supply and I had to disconnect the equipment before working on the UV lamps.” Therefore, the decision adds that “it put the worker in serious danger, which led to the accident described.”