One dead, two injured in hangar project accident
A construction worker died while two others were injured after they were pinned on the ground by trusses from the hangar project that they were working on inside the Benito Ebuen Airbase in Lapu-Lapu City.
Benjamin Muñez of sitio Arca in Barangay Pusok in Lapu-Lapu City died but he had yet to be recovered from under the trusses as of 3 p.m. while his co-workers Celso Gestopa and Rommel Omolon were brought to the Lapu-Lapu City District Hospital.
Gestopa sustained a cut on his chest while Omolon complained of body pains.
Bienvenido Muñez, Benjamin’s father, said the three climbed a scaffolding to weld braces on six trusses already installed on the roof of the hangar project at 11 a.m. on Sunday.
Trusses are frameworks, typically consisting of rafters, posts, and struts, supporting a roof, bridge, or other structure. But the middle truss fell causing five other nearby trusses to also fall on the climbing workers.
Muñez, who also works at the airbase hangar project, got buried underneath by the trusses.
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