Accidents & Safety – WIND WORKS

A worker lost his life on Friday, 28 July, in Tarifa (Cadiz) after being trapped in a wind turbine, according to the emergency services.

The event occurred at around midday, when the 112 emergency telephone operators handled a call from a worker who was trapped in the hub (the part of the machine where a shaft is supported and rotates) of a turbine, at a height of 130 metres. The turbine was located at kilometre 90 of the N-340.

Emergency services, including a helicopter ambulance, the Guardia CIvil, fire brigade and police were deployed to the scene.

The health services on the scene were only able to confirm the death of the worker. No further information has been released on how this incident occurred.

The turbine was built back in 2008 along the banks of the River Hull. Standing at an astonishing 125m, it has been a part of the Hull skyline for over 15 years.

A 23-year-old man has died after he was injured at a windfarm construction site in Shetland.

Patrick McCaffrey (37) from Rossinver, Co Leitrim died at Derrysallagh wind farm

Service provider dies after falling around 100 metres while installing Enercon turbine at a wind farm in eastern Austria

Three of the five codefendants charged with manslaughter for their alleged involvement in the death of a Chehalis man who died in January 2020 when a trench collapsed during construction of the Skookumchuck Wind Farm have filed motions asking Lewis County Superior Court to dismiss all charges against them.

Two firms have been fined nearly £900,000 over the death of a security worker left in freezing conditions at a wind farm in East Ayrshire.

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Presentation to Winterwind 2021 21 April on a Comparison of Wind’s Fatalities to that of Other Industries. Wind energy’s hazards, like its appearance on the landscape, are readily apparent. Wind energy hides no latent killers, no black lung, for example. When wind kills, it does so directly and with gruesome effect.

The family of a Chehalis wind farm worker who died last year while on the job has settled a wrongful death claim for $12 million after filing suit in King County Superior Court.

Mario Contreras Jr was working for Site Constructors Inc at an unidentified project near Palm Springs