The fifth was also found. worker. Firefighters recovered the Dead body of the last worker still missing in collapse of the construction site of an Esselunga supermarket in Florence.
The body of the fifth worker found
The afternoon of Tuesday, February 20 firefighters have announced that they have recovered the lifeless body of the last worker who disappeared during the collapse of a beam at the construction site of a supermarket long S to Florence.
The first three bodies had already been recovered on Friday, February 16, when the accident occurred, while the fourth was found by firefighters a few hours later, in the morning of Saturday the 17th.
With the discovery of the fifth worker, the number of missing people is reduced to zero. All the bodies of the workers involved have been recovered. The Florence prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation to verify possible irregularities in the work.
The accident at the Florence construction site
On the morning of Friday, February 16, a Florenceat a construction site where a supermarket chain was being built long SThere was a serious collapse that affected a dozen workers who were working.
According to the reconstructions, it would be a beam collapsed of reinforced concrete in which three of the workers were working. He then crashed through the attics two floors below and fell a dozen meters.
It is during this collapse that the workers working on the floors below that beam would have been hit by the concrete and debris, becoming buried. There are three injured people hospitalized, in addition to the 5 dead.
The critical problems encountered and the prosecutor’s investigations
An investigation into what happened was immediately launched. florence prosecutor’s office. There would be several critical issues at the supermarket construction site where the collapse occurred that would be important in establishing liability.
On the one hand, it appears that some of the workers did not have regular contracts. More specific doubts then arise about the materials used for the construction of the building and the safety of the work that the three workers carried out on the beam. The prosecution hypothesizes the crimes of negligent collapse and involuntary manslaughter.