Three workers are found unconscious at a Tarancón pig farm

Three workers from a pig farm in Tarancón (Cuenca) have been found this Thursday unconscious inside the facilities, probably due to intoxication, and have been evacuated in different health facilities to the Virgen de la Luz Hospital in Cuenca.

The three workers have been found at 2:36 p.m. by colleagues inside the farm, located on Camino de Tribaldos, who have notified the 112 emergency service, which in turn has sent the park firefighters to the place. from Tarancon.

Upon arrival, the firefighters have made a measurement of the air that has been negative, so at the moment the causes that have caused the fainting of the workers are unknown, which is probably due to poisoning, the origin of which has not yet been determined. has determined, sources from 112 in Castilla-La Mancha have informed Efe.

Likewise, these sources have indicated that the firefighters are considering the hypothesis that the three workers have been unconscious in a first inhalation, which has later dissipated because the farm has a forced ventilation system.

One of the three workers, aged 39, has been transferred to the Cuenca Hospital by a medical helicopter, while another whose age is unknown has been taken to the hospital in a mobile ICU and the third, aged 38, in a basic life support ambulance (SVB).

In addition, another SVB support ambulance and an emergency medical team have traveled to the farm to care for the injured, as well as agents of the Civil Guard and the Local Police of Tarancón, indicated 112.