Overview
- During a concrete pour at a reservoir site in Jabonillal, a support structure failed and eight workers fell, with firefighters taking them to a local clinic and one later evacuated to Piura.
- The partial collapse damaged the tank enough that work has stopped and crews will need to rebuild the structure.
- Sunafil, the Labor Ministry, and police have opened investigations to determine what failed and who is responsible.
- Union leaders allege low‑grade wood in the formwork and the tank’s spherical design weakened the support, and they say workers lacked required harnesses and scaffolding.
- The injured, named by local outlets as employees of Deyma Inversiones, were building a 5,000‑cubic‑meter municipal water tank budgeted at more than S/6.48 million over a 210‑day schedule.