Video shows falling pillars inside a company in Salvador; two employees died and three were injured

Security cameras caught the fall of pillars and beams from a construction site, inside a company in the Pirajá neighborhood, in Salvador. The case happened on Tuesday (27) and ended with the deaths of two employees. Three of their colleagues were injured.

The establishment, which works with recycling, is located close to BA-528, better known as Estrada do Derba. The site was isolated by Civil Defense (Codesal).

The workers who died were identified as Joseane Raimundo Pereira Silva and Claudia Aldeiva Santos de Santana. Their bodies were buried this Thursday morning (29), in Salvador.

As TV Bahia found, the victims were working at the time they were hit. A warehouse was under construction at the site and the structure would support a roof. The work was about a month old, but had not yet been completed.

The Mobile Emergency Care Service (Samu) and military firefighters were called and provided assistance to the survivors. A helicopter was even used in the action.

Two women were taken to the State General Hospital (HGE) and a third to the Hospital do Subúrbio. There are still no details about their health status.

One of the victims who died in the accident, Joseane, turned 41 on Tuesday. She leaves behind five children.

"We were going to surprise her today, but we didn't have time. With an hour left before her shift ended, this tragedy happened," lamented Anderson.

The man also highlighted that his wife complained about her work and that she had plans to resign after completing one year at the company.

"They murdered my wife, because they put her under that construction site. I don't even see that as an accident. It was under construction and they put the employees to work underneath. That's not acceptable," he said.

Finally, Anderson drew attention to a feeling he had late in the afternoon, shortly before the accident. "[At] 4pm I felt something and sent her a message, asking if everything was ok, but she didn't respond. I already knew something had gone wrong", he highlighted.

A co-worker said that everything happened quickly and the victims didn't have time to escape. In an interview with the reporting team, the man said he narrowly escaped being hit by the debris.

"I was there with them. I had just talked to them. It was a matter of 20 seconds between me leaving their side and arriving here at the gate and I only heard the noise. It all went down at once", said driver Romilton Ramos de Souza.

g1 asked the company responsible for the work for a position, but did not receive a response until the last update of this report.