The Generalitat Valenciana assured that the collapse of the Luis Vives school in Masanasa, in which a Tragsa worker died and another was injured, was “unforeseeable” and that the building was not in danger of collapsing. Jose Antonio Rovira, The Minister of Education, Culture, Universities and Employment announced this Sunday, after a meeting emergency held at the Palau de la Generalitat and assured that there were “no reports indicating that the building was in danger of collapsing.” The accident occurred while the workers were working on an exterior porch of the building.
“Technical reports indicate that the center suffered significant damage, but they did not represent a imminent risk of the structure,” Rovira said, while emphasizing that the “occupation” The Masanasa school did indeed represent “a risk”. Furthermore, the advisor recalled that the accident did not occur in the interior of the building, but “on a porch which connects one building to another”.
He Tragsa Group reported Sunday afternoon that the collapse was caused by “the collapse of an exterior metal structure which protected the passage between the buildings from the elements”, according to the first investigations carried out by the Group. Rovira, after the emergency meeting called after the accident, said that the center had 50 years and that “everything indicated that it was more worth it make it new “to repair it” after the serious damage caused by the passage of DANA.
Rovira described the events as “work accident” and explained that at the time of the event, four workers from Tragsa and workers EMU that they were “surprised by an unpredictable collapse”. In this sense, he stressed that the professionals carried out cleaning tasks “outside” the center “at the request of the town hall” of the municipality, which, due to “the proximity of certain homes”, had requested The department will clean the school for reasons, Rovira stressed, of “sanitation”.
The minister, who presented his “condolences” to the family and friends of the deceased and wished a “speedy recovery” to the injured worker, indicated that the school was considered a “red” center, therefore “in the short term students would not be able to enter “The priority of these centers was to seek relocation to other places,” he emphasized, which, he added, happened with CEIP Luis. Vives, where “we knew that the students could not return” and the structure should be reviewed. In fact, he stressed that this Monday, the students of this school will be transferred to the old pedagogical school of Valencia.
