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Talks over power station safety Second walkout at power station
(about 4 hours later)
Workers at Aberthaw power station in the Vale of Glamorgan are to meet to discuss safety fears after the death of a 49-year-old man. About 300 workers at Aberthaw Power Station in the Vale of Glamorgan have walked out for a second day after a "breakdown in communication".
On Tuesday, hundreds of construction and maintenance staff walked out of the site over the issue. They and hundreds more first walked out on Tuesday over safety fears after the death of a 49-year-old man on Sunday.
The ambulance service was told the man, who has not been named, fell from a platform on Sunday. The Health and Safety Executive is investigating. Half the workforce - who are building a new plant - met on Wednesday and agreed to a company offer of 24-hour medical cover, and they are now back at work.
Staff have asked for a registered nurse to be based permanently at the site. A union said it was believed news of this offer did not reach all workers.
Aberthaw is a coal-fired power station which is not currently generating power because it is being serviced. Another section of the workforce had held a separate meeting on a different part of the site.
They are involved in the routine maintenance of the existing power station and it is not clear that they had full details of the company offer.
A Unite shop steward said: "Unfortunately there seems to have been a lack of communication and they have decided to take it on themselves to have another day off because they do not seem to think there is sufficient cover."
Unions said the industrial action had not affected the operation of the generating side of the plant because none of these workers, employed by npower, were involved.
Staff first staged unofficial action over demands for a registered nurse to be based permanently at the site.
Heart attack
It followed an incident on Sunday, where a man who worked in the sea wall intake area as part of the flue gas desulphurisation project, died after an accident.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said the man had a heart attack. He later died at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
Aberthaw is a coal-fired power station.
The site is owned by npower, but the workers who walked out are understood to have been working for contractors AMEC and Alstom.The site is owned by npower, but the workers who walked out are understood to have been working for contractors AMEC and Alstom.
A spokesman for AMEC said a registered medical nurse was due to start work on the flue gas desulphurisation project on Wednesday morning, following weeks of negotiations about first aid.A spokesman for AMEC said a registered medical nurse was due to start work on the flue gas desulphurisation project on Wednesday morning, following weeks of negotiations about first aid.
A spokesperson from the union Unite confirmed there had been a walk-out over the lack of medical facilities there. The union has told the workforce that its action was unofficial.
Heart attack
On Sunday, the Welsh Ambulance Service said they were called to the power station at 2237 BST on Sunday.
A paramedic and an ambulance arrived 19 minutes after the call and found the man was having a heart attack. They took him to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, where he died.
The ambulance workers reported that medical staff were already on the scene when they arrived, and the ambulance workers assumed those were part of the workforce at Aberthaw, the service said.
The man who died is believed to have been working in the sea wall intake area as part of the flue gas desulphurisation project.