Overview
- Authorities said the incident occurred Thursday around midday at a hotel on Calle Juan Perón in Huerta Grande, in the Punilla department of Córdoba.
- Several large tempered-glass sheets destabilized during unloading from a truck and fell onto two workers, according to initial accounts.
- The deceased was a 22-year-old employed by the private company handling the material, the hotel administrator reported.
- A 51-year-old hotel employee sustained spinal polytrauma with possible vertebral fractures and was transferred to a medical center with a reserved prognosis.
- The case was classified as a death of uncertain etiology, and Policía Judicial, the Investigations Brigade and the Cosquín prosecutor’s office led by Paula Kelm are conducting inquiries.