Man killed in Shropshire border industrial accident is named
A man who died at an industrial site was dismantling a steel hopper, the opening of his inquest heard.
Jose Luis Santos Canal, 31, was one of a team of seven Spaniards working for a sub-contracting firm at the Befesa aluminium waste recycling plant at Mereside Industrial Park, Fenns Bank, near Whitchurch, when he died on July 14.
At a brief hearing in Ruthin yesterday, Mr John Gittins, the coroner for North Wales East and Central, said he had been informed that Mr Canal, from San Pedro de Latarce, near Valladolid in Spain, was working about 15 feet off the ground. The inquest was adjourned.
The large metal hopper weighing several tons was being cut up and the sections were being lifted by crane, but one was cut through before the crane was in place, the inquest heard.
It fell on to Mr Canal, who was certified dead at the scene by a paramedic.
Pathologist Dr Mark Atkinson, who carried out a post-mortem examination, said the cause of death was head trauma.
Adjourning the inquest to a date to be fixed, the coroner said that the matter was being investigated by the Health and Safety Executive.
