A 25-year-old electrician was killed after a concrete wall collapsed on him while he was working on a temporary elevator of a condominium being built in barangay Lahug, Cebu City.
Police identified the fatality as Martin Encabo Villacencio, a worker of Vineyard Construction.
The accident happened in the work site of the 22-storey Avenir Residences on Archbishop Reyes Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. A few days earlier, two workers of the same construction firm fell from a 40-foot high scaffolding in the construction site of an extension of the Our Lady of Sacred Heart Parish church in barangay Camputhaw.
The electrician was fixing the elevator used to carry construction workers when a solid block fell on him according to his younger brother Johnji, who was assisting him, said SPO3 Filomeno Mendaros, homicide investigator.
Villacencio was rushed to the Perpetual Succour Hospital but did not make it alive.
SPO3 Mendaros said the victim’s family told police the case was already settled.
When homicide investigators went to the site, they were told by the security guard that there was a temporary work stoppage because of the accident.
“We will not stop until someone from the firm answers us,” said the police officer.
“We will go back to the site. The death of a worker could be grounds for negligence. Refusing to cooperate in an investigation may be obstruction of justice,” Mendaros said.
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