Costa Blanca worker airlifted to hospital hours into first day back after Spain allowed certain industries to return to work

WORKER AIRLIFTED TO HOSPITAL: Construction worker badly hurt on first day back. CREDIT: Helicóptero Sanitario A9 @A9Hems

AN Alicante worker was airlifted to hospital on his first day back on the job after an iron plate weighing 150 kg fell on his foot.

Construction and metalworkers were among those sectors allowed back to work yesterday, but just hours into his first day back, a 45-year-old builder was hospitalised after an industrial accident.

The incident took place at 10.30am as the injured man and his colleagues were loading iron plates at an industrial unit in Pilar de la Horadada.

Emergency services, SAMU, the Guardia Civil and the Local Police were called to the scene.
Given his condition, the injured worker was airlifted from the Horadada Sports Union football field to the Consorcio de Bomberos park in San Vicente, where an ambulance picked him up and took him to Alicante General Hospital with a ‘destroyed foot.’

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Tara Rippin

Tara Rippin is a reporter for Spain’s largest English-speaking newspaper, Euro Weekly News, and is responsible for the Costa Blanca region.
She has been in journalism for more than 20 years, having worked for local newspapers in the Midlands, UK, before relocating to Spain in 1990.
Since arriving, the mother-of-one has made her home on the Costa Blanca, while spending 18 months at the EWN head office in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol.
She loves being part of a community that has a wonderful expat and Spanish mix, and strives to bring the latest and most relevant news to EWN’s loyal and valued readers.

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