Germany: Three construction workers fall into death

On Tuesday afternoon, May 20, three construction workers fell from a large height at a bridge building near Horb in the Neckar Valley, south of Stuttgart. When they were caught on a crane on a crane on a crane on a crane over them and the cage sank. Firefighters and emergency services could only confirm the death of the three men.

The construction workers killed, two Polish and a German between the ages of 40 and 46. They were part of a crew that worked on one of the most important main construction sites in the state of Baden-Württemberg. At an altitude of up to 90 meters, a motorway bridge for the B32 is built over the Neckar River to keep the traffic from the small town of Horb (Freudenstadt District), which is in the valley.

While the German transport minister Patrick Schnieder (Christial Democratic Union, CDU) and Baden-Württemberg Minister of Transport Winfried Hermann (Greens) had leased the condolences and the crocodile tears that had already been responsible for the construction company, Porr from Munich, who had already worked on the construction site, had to resume at the construction site. The work is to be resumed on Monday, although the causes of the accident have not yet been clarified.

The most important unanswered question is the condition of the broken suspension cable, which has connected the gondola with the crane. Such steel cables are usually susceptible to corrosion, ie they are not rustproof and therefore have to be checked regularly. It is also noteworthy that the transport gondola was only attached to one cable and that there were no other safety devices.