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With candles and white balloons, students and guardians reminded the 18-year-old that he died electrocuted inside the Las Nieves Industrial College in Puente Alto, in the Metropolitan region.
Bayron Díaz died on the first day of return to face-to-face classes, when I participated in the Electronics class and they addressed in a practical way the subject of Electrical control.
In that context, would have manipulated a three-phase motor, receiving a strong electric shock that generated a cardiorespiratory arrest. The student was transferred to the Sótero del Río Hospital, he died at the scene.
René Muñoz, manager of the course, affirmed that his son found out by WhatsApp about the accident at school. At first they thought it was a heart attack, but “Then they found out that he was hit by an electric motor.”
The attorney-in-fact questioned that, on the first day of practice, after months of online theory classes, they had been made to manipulate an engine. “The children are at home, they don’t have the practice, they don’t know how to take a cable,” he emphasized.
Lack of maintenance?
In his opinion, what happened on Monday afternoon should have been “negligence, something happened, I don’t know if it was bad engine maintenance, bad teacher presence, but something happened ”.
The same opinion was delivered by two colleagues from Bayron, who detailed that “the activity was to see the issue of the models with the three-phase motor.”
According to the little information they handle, “Supposedly they were dismantling the equipment and it seems that the motor was connected”, when the electric shock occurred.
They stressed that the situation should not have happened, especially since there were no more than 3 students and two adults in the classes.
Like the proxy they pointed to a possible “Lack of maintenance of equipment” and they explained that it can be “manipulated with up to 400 volts and as it is on the ground the blow is strong.”
They consider that it was rushed to do practical activities on the first day of face-to-face classes.
They also indicated that they have received little information and explanations from the school.
According to what was detailed by the participants of the candlelight, the remains of the young man were delivered to his family at noon.
Prosecution inquiries
The Puente Alto prosecutor, Denisse Valenzuela Toba, explained that they are directing the proceedings to establish the death of a teenager.
“According to the first antecedents, He died of an electric shock when handling cables from machinery inside a workshop that was inside the commune ”, he explained.
The proceedings are in charge of the Homicide Brigade and the Criminalistics Laboratory of the PDI, as well as the report of the Legal Medical Service.
Education Authorities
The Undersecretary of Education, Jorge Poblete, assured that “we have instructed all measures to conduct an investigation and support all elements that are required to clarify the facts immediately ”.
Within the framework of these proceedings, it was determined to suspend the face-to-face classes at the establishment.
For his part, the Superintendent of Education, Cristián O’Ryan, added that they filed “a complaint ex officio, that means that we are going to audit the establishment.”
Among the matters to be inspected is “if the establishment had all the security measures that all educational establishments in the country must have in their comprehensive school safety plan and the corresponding protocols for referral.”
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