Metro de Medellín reported progress in the investigation of the death of workers - Medellín - Colombia

The Medellin Metro reported that it has already delivered to the authorities the internal report on the possible causes of the accident that occurred on February 3 at the Sabaneta station and in which the workers assigned to the company Carlos Mario López Correa and Gustavo Adolfo Atehortúa died.

According to the mass transportation company, this investigation was carried out 15 days after the incident occurred and will be input for the investigations carried out by the corresponding entities.

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Although it did not report the results in detail, the Medellín Metro clarified that the signaling modernization process that it recently carried out and that came into operation in November 2021, “did not affect the accident, since this technology is not related to the safe development of visual inspections on the railway”.

It should be remembered that The incident occurred when a commercial train, with passengers, ran over two Metro workers who were carrying out work on the railway at that station, located in the south of the Aburrá Valley.

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Gustavo Adolfo Atehortúa and Carlos Mario López Correa, the workers who died.

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Until now, the only hypothesis is that there were flaws in the protocol established in this road inspection work that both workers carried out.

“Normally they are welds that are checked during the day to intervene at night. But it is not an unusual procedure, it is totally normal and that is precisely why it gives more impact to experience this situation, ”explained the manager of the Metro, Tomás Elejalde.

For now, the investigations of this fact that shocked the inhabitants of the capital of Antioquia continue and it is expected that in the next few days there will be an official statement from the authorities that analyze the causes of this accident.

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