DOLE to halt operations in accident site
The Department of Labor and Employment is expected to issue an order today halting operations at the accident area of a shipyard that claimed the lives of four workers and injured six others last Saturday afternoon.
Vic Abordo of the Department of Labor and Employment said they went to the site yesterday to conduct an investigation and the results will be out this week.
“We cannot yet bare what the results are until we have made a complete report,” he said.
The management of Metaphil Inc. is expected to submit today its findings on why the steel trusses of a building being built inside the compound of Tsuneishi Heavy Industries Inc. in Balamban town collapsed killing workers Israel Torcullas, Celedonio de Vera, Romeo Dindin and Arthur Subingsubing.
Those injured were identified as Francisco Imedio, Narciso Ruiz, Gerome Tuline, Danilo Capangpangan, Ruel Arcillas and Richard Cabañero.
Tsuneishi environment manager Leo Salubre said the victims were erectors, not welders as earlier reported. They are responsible for erecting the metal scaffoldings that collapsed.
Salubre, in separate interview, said among those who inspected the site yesterday is enforcement officer Efren delos Reyes of the DOLE-7 Bureau of Working Condition.
Salubre earlier said the workers in the yard all wore safety equipment including those involved in the accident.
Metaphil assistant vice president for construction Jonathan Bendebel assured that all expenses incurred by the victims as a result of the incident will be taken care of by the company.
He said human resource personnel were already sent to the hospital to assist those injured and to see to the burial arrangements of the fatalities.
Policemen complained it took the Tsuneishi management so long to let them inside its compound to investigate the incident.
The incident happened at
Metaphil secretary Ruby Santos said the engineers and officers were still finalizing the report as of yesterday afternoon.
Only one of the six injured is still being treated at the
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