Bologna, 19 April 2024 – “I was working when I heard a loud noise. I went to look out to see what was happening. And I was hit by the blaze“. Nicholas Bernardini he spoke for two hours yesterday morning with the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit. The twenty-five year old of Gaggio Montanoan employee of Enel Green Power, is the first of the injured workers from the explosion last Tuesday to have been heard by the investigators. The boy, who wasn’t busy firsthand in the testingunlike the workers killed in the disaster, was busy in maintenance work on the fourth basement floor when the Suviana plant was hit by a blast of fire, hot oil and debris. Traced from the belly of the power plant to the floors on the surface.
The police are listening to the survivors
Bernardini’s testimony does not deviate from report provided so far by the workers who remained unharmed. Those that they were off site and who, listened to by the police, first heard a “noise, like an engine running idle” ever stronger. And then a roar. The soldiers of the Carabinieri, delegated by the Prosecutor’s Office (with the prosecutor Giuseppe Amato and the prosecutor Flavio Lazzarini) together with firefighters and personnel from the Occupational Medicine of the ASL, are working to be able to outline the various stages of the tragedy.
At the same time, the investigators are developing the first investigations prior to the inspection inside the power plant, still flooded and inaccessible, due to the risk linked to the water that continues to enter inside. Today, in this regard, a table is provided at Palazzo Caprara where managers of Enel Green Power and representatives of the fire brigade, carabinieri of the Investigative Unit and Nil, Region and Municipality of Camugnano will report to the prefect Attilio Visconti on the situation of the site, to also understand how to proceed upon emptying the site.
This, while the hypotheses on what it can triggered the tragedy they continue to follow one another. What also emerged from the testimonies of experts is that to carry out a test like the one involving the second Suviana group it is necessary to deactivate some of the safety systems: systems which therefore cannot come into action, blocking everything, in the event of risk. A risk like the one generated from a turbine that goes out of speed. All the more reason, therefore, it will be necessary to understand from the survivors what type of noises were heard and what maneuvers were performed. And begin to give an outline to this tragedy.
