One employee has been killed, and three injured, in an explosion at a manufacturing unit run by Danish wind sector provider Welcon, in line with media stories in Denmark.
The accident occurred on the firm’s recently-expanded manufacturing unit within the Give space of Denmark, and resulted within the demise of a 41-year outdated Portuguese nationwide, in line with a report by Danish information web site Vejile Amts Folkeblad, which quoted Stig Simonsen, a deputy police inspector at South East Jutland Police.
The identical web site urged that two of the injured employees, additionally Portuguese, suffered life-threatening accidents because of extreme burns. All 4 employees have been described as skilled welders, and none have been current hires.
Welcon produces specialised metal options to the renewables sector and is a significant international provider of wind turbine towers, with current enlargement into manufacturing of floating foundations.
Welcon managing director director Jens Pedersen instructed Vejile Amts Folkeblad that the corporate was not but in a position to provide an evidence in regards to the causes of the accident
Welcon lately accomplished a billion-dollar enlargement at its predominant manufacturing base.
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The corporate’s web site acknowledged that the enlargement encompassed “new massive plate preparation and welding outlets, a really massive new floor therapy facility and a few extra storage, workplace and welfare amenities, enabling Welcon to provide the most important offshore towers and the modern Stiesdal floating foundations.”
The brand new build-out was designed for Lean Manufacturing with probably the most trendy and superior robotic expertise in each the welding departments and the floor therapy facility, the web site states.
The identical Vejile Amts Folkeblad report mentioned a 32-year-old Polish building employee misplaced his life because of a fall through the building of the manufacturing unit, again in February.
Welcon has not but responded to a request by Recharge for details about the accident and attainable causes.
