A 31-year-old Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) worker died this week, following a fire at the company’s Presidente Vargas mill located in the city of Volta Redonda, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
According to a media report, Aluenio Francisco Alves Gouveia died at a local hospital and was the fourth company’s employee to die from the fire that broke out at CSN’s galvanizing warehouses on March this year.
Denis da Silva, 37; Renan Martins, 29 and Wanderley dos Santos, 38, were the other three workers who died following the fire.
At the time of the incident, four workers were wounded and one was heavily injured.
CSN told SteelOrbis at the time output wasn’t affected. The fire broke out in one of the company’s galvanizing warehouses, where there are two galvanizing lines.
“Out of these two galvanizing lines, one was hit, but CSN will probably perform maintenance works at it. A third galvanizing line, which was close the other two, wasn’t affected, so output didn’t stop in that third galvanizing line,” a spokesperson said at the time.