A worker has died after falling from the roof of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, as health and police sources have confirmed to Europa Press.
The operator was working tied with a rope when he fell from a height between 15 and 20 meters high.
The work accident took place on March 4, around 10:45 a.m., when the worker fell while carrying out maintenance and restoration tasks on the metal shell, covered on most of its surface by
trencadís
, of the public building, belonging to the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències (CACSA), sources from the Headquarters have specified.
After the fall, the man was transferred to the Hospital Universitari La Fe de València, where he finally died, and the National Police opened an investigation.
The deceased was an external worker, hired by a UTE, according to CACSA sources.
According to the first investigations, all safety measures were complied with but due to some movement two ropes holding the worker were severed and he fell, police sources have specified.
The deceased man was 47 years old and specialized in safety at height, as
Levante-EMV
announced this Tuesday .
At the time of the accident he was with another companion, who was upstairs, and the hypothesis is that one of the ropes was cut when it came into contact with material in poor condition.