The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Region 7 has
suspended construction work on a hangar inside the Benito Ebuen Mactan Air Base
in Lapu-Lapu City
DOLE-7 Director Exequiel Sarcauga said the agency
automatically stops work in a site where a fatal accident has taken place.
The hangar is one of the structures being built by the
Mactan Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) under a PHP820-million
project to replicate Philippine Air Force (PAF) facilities which were
demolished to pave the way for construction of the new second Mactan airport
terminal (T2).
It was scheduled for turnover to the MCIAA and the PAF on
March 31.
Major Vivien Valerio of the 560th Air Base Wing said the
hangar will be for the 5th Fighter Wing and 15th Strike Wing of the PAF.
Engineer Pedro Adonis Compendio, an MCIAA consultant, said
the hangar is the last structure of the MCIAA replication project for the PAF,
which includes eight structures, a 10-hectare ramp and a road network.
Compendio said the other sub-projects were completed after
the contractor Pamatong Grandby cleared the area last Dec. 31, 2015.
Granby Project Engineer Benuardo Maralit said the company
will not resume construction of the hangar pending an investigation of the
accident.
The contractor has promised to shoulder the expenses of the
family of Benjamin Muñez, as well as the families of two other workers injured
last Sunday.
Mary Flor Rañola, Muñez’s live-in partner, said the family
will not file a case against the company.
Muñez, 35, died after trusses collapsed past 11 a.m. last
Sunday, while two of his co-workers, welders Celso Gestopa, 56, and Roel
Omolon, 36, were injured.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=864369
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