It is a time of pain and mourning, it is difficult to think about continuing the work when a worker has just lost his life on the construction site, and yet the gigantic machine that carries out the construction of the subway, is also forced to deal with tomorrow, with the timetables to be respected, with the timing of the next processes that need to be rethought. This is an operation that, in these hours, appears illogical and dry, yet it must be done.
The tunnel currently being completed, the one dug by the mole which was dismantled by the poor man himself Antonio Russo who lost his life yesterday, should have been delivered, complete, by February of 2025. There were no signs of slowing down and the timing, until yesterday’s tragedy, was completely on target.
Now, however, the entire planning of the works will inevitably undergo a shift forward with times that, at present, are not even predictable because they are connected to the needs of the investigations which obviously take precedence over everything.
The main unknown is linked above all to the reconstruction of the facts. The painful history of accidents on construction sites explains that when every detail is clear from the first moment, the time of the investigations it is compressed. These are those episodes that have an easily determinable dynamic and are not linked to any possible malfunction of machinery: in these cases the time required for seizure of the construction site is extremely short.
The issue of yesterday’s tragedy is different. It is a accident occurred in the depths of a tunnel and caused, according to the first testimonies, by the probable malfunction of a machine.
At present the construction site has already been seized, but what is the conceivable timeframe for the investigations? Industry experts hypothesize a sequence of events on the basis of which they estimate the length of the work stoppage period. They explain that, as happened in other similar dramatic cases, after the first findings carried out by the forensic team, the Power of attorney requests an appraisal of the machinery and the entire scene of the tragedy, which must be carried out by specialized experts. Usually this type of expertise requires rather long times because all the causes of the malfunction must be analysed, specifically (in this case, for now, we think of a problem with the braking system of the trolley transporting the workers) but also of the entire structure that caused the lethal accident.
In short, it is hypothesized that the investigations will be stopped longer than four months which, however, may not be followed by an immediate release of the construction site and further investigations may be necessary.
If the scenario were the worst one hypothesized by the experts, it would take many months before interventions and operations could be resumed target of 2025 it could also be postponed to the following year.
The closest example to this possibility is the accident that, a January 2022occurred inside the tunnel under the cemetery of Poggioreale. In that case, fortunately, no victims or injuries were recorded, yet the Power of attorneybefore releasing the construction site and allowing the work to continue, needed almost a year of investigations.
In the prospects of the construction site of Capodichino another possibility is also taken into consideration: if the forklift were immediately identified as the only structure to be subjected to checks, after the first on-site surveys, the machinery could also be transported elsewhere for complete checks and the construction site could be reopened in time close.
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