Although the company announced that there are already results, it clarified that it will keep the information confidential.
The investigation that seeks to clarify the factors that influenced the accident that cost the life of two subway workers on February 3 It was concluded this week, according to what the Medellin Metro reported this Friday.
Through a press release, the mass transportation system specified that the delivery of said technical report had already been made to the ARL (Occupational Risk Administrator) of the deceased employees, which would later transfer it to the Ministry of Labor.
Despite the fact that this information was already being studied, the Metro kept the main conclusions confidential, arguing that this action seeks not hinder the investigations of the authorities.
“Because the investigations of the competent authorities will continue their course, and out of respect for the families and the servers, the Medellin Metro will wait for said authorities to pronounce themselves and will continue to provide information that is required, ”said the company in its statement.
Despite that decision, the organization maintained that one of the main conclusions of the study was that the modernization of the signaling system would not have affected the incident.
“(…) It is clarified that the modernization of the signaling, which came into operation at the end of November 2021, did not affect the accident, since this technology is not related to the safe development of visual inspections on the road. iron”, reads the statement.
This pronouncement comes days following several employees of that company, organized through the Sintrametro union, led a series of protests by the stations of the system calling for improvements in safety protocols for workers.
In a dialogue with EL COLOMBIANO, Claudia Montoya, president of that organization, explained that her main demand was that the company allow workers to work under a system of “technical assurance” and not a “self-assurance” system.
“In the technical assurance, drivers must receive authorization from the central control post to continue driving on the sections where there are people working. On the other hand, in self-assurance this is not the case, there is simply a sign that tells the driver that there are personnel on that section”, expressed Montoya, adding that since before the accident of the two workers, identified as Carlos Mario López Correa and Gustavo Adolfo Atehortúa, they had already been asking for more guarantees.
After these protests, last Wednesday, the Metro issued a statement in which it expressed respect the trade union rights of its workers and have as “priority the life and security” of its servers and users.
As reported by the company in its statement, the delivered document will be one of the central inputs in the actions that the authorities might take as a result of the accident.
