An employee in his fifties died in the area of the city of Madrid On Monday, emergency services said he was the victim of heatstroke related to extreme temperatures at his workplace.
The event brings the death toll in the capital region to two while working as part of a protracted heat wave that began more than a week ago.
The victim collapsed on Friday afternoon while working with other colleagues at an industrial warehouse in Mostoles, according to a spokesman for emergency services. Madridamong very high temperatures.
“When (rescuers) arrived, I had a seizure” and temperature body “42.9 ºC,” the spokesman explained. The man died on the night from Friday to Saturday in a Madrid hospital.
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On Saturday, Madrid authorities announced the death of a 60-year-old janitor who was also a victim of heatstroke during work. When he was rescued, his body temperature was 41.6 ºC.
“The best father that I had is gone, I will always carry with me the example of my father, a great man, a worker (worker) until his death,” his son wrote on Twitter.
“These events should never happen and under our responsibility we will continue to insist that such situations do not happen,” the two main Spanish trade unions, the UGT and the Works Commission, said in a statement.
“The Labor Inspectorate is investigating what happened” over the death of a Madrid municipal worker on Saturday, the communist labor minister tweeted. Yolanda Diaz. “You have to check why measures were not taken (…) to prevent this kind of accident,” he added.
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