Overview

• Sunday’s accident saw a personnel lift plunge from the ninth-floor elevator shaft at a San Lorenzo construction site, killing four workers on impact.
• The fifth worker, Fernando Guerra, succumbed Monday to critical injuries sustained and died at the Eva Perón hospital in Granadero Baigorria.
• Judicial authorities have opened technical peritajes to assess whether the lift was overloaded or if a snapped cable tensor triggered the fall.
• The provincial Ministry of Labour has revised Santa Fe’s 2025 workplace fatality tally to 17, highlighting persistent informal labour and inadequate safety conditions.
• Emergency teams from the Sistema Integrado de Emergencias Sanitarias, volunteer firefighters and local police secured the scene and managed rescue efforts.