Overview
- An explosion occurred during a controlled voladura at the Granitos y Áridos de Atios quarry in the parish of Atios, leaving four workers injured and prompting an immediate emergency response.
- One worker is reported in very serious condition and two others are in serious condition, while all victims were accessible to rescuers and moved to hospital care.
- A severely wounded worker was airlifted to a regional hospital and the other victims were taken to Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro in Vigo by road ambulance.
- Emergency services on site included local firefighters, Policía Local, Protección Civil, Guardia Civil, 061 medical teams and specialist TEDAX NRBQ and weapons-intervention personnel who secured potential explosive risks and gathered evidence.
- Atios has a long history of quarrying and the incident will likely prompt scrutiny of blasting procedures as investigators work to establish why a controlled blast produced an explosion that injured multiple workers.