Police have announced that a 26-year-old Portuguese national died in an accident while working with a backhoe in Switzerland’s Grisons province this afternoon.
“At 13:30 [locais]The man and his colleagues were working on building a road below Alp Ruschein when a mobile backhoe was loaded and used to dump the material upside down and then dump it 10 meters down the valley,” a statement said.
This happened at the same time that “the victim was compacting the soil on the road with a roller.”
“For reasons still unclear, a 26-year-old Portuguese man operating a rolling mill was run over by a passing mobile backhoe loader”, the note reveals.
Colleagues rescued the man and “immediately gave him first aid and alerted the rescue services”, according to the statement.
A medical team administered emergency measures to the victim at the site, he added.
But, he concluded, “the man died at the scene from the severity of his injuries.”
As a result of the initial report, the Road Rescue Service of the Ilanz/Glion Fire Department was called.
Together with the public prosecutor, the Grisons cantonal police (‘Graubünden’) are investigating the causes of the incident.