Accident with GE wind energy equipment is the second in two months in Brazil and adds to another three in the United States

An accident at the Delta 6 wind farm, owned by Omega Geração, located in the municipality of Paulino Neves, in Maranhão, left an employee who performed maintenance on a wind energy tower injured.
The wind turbine of the American GE collapsed in Maranhão on the night of last Tuesday (03/09) and according to the manufacturer there were three employees on site, one of them was injured and had to receive medical help.

GE said in a statement: "The safety of our employees is of the utmost importance to us and we are supporting the injured employee and his family at this time."
According to witnesses, the wind turbine fell when there was a maintenance technician in the nacelle, a compartment installed at the top of the tower.

previous cases

It is not the first time that an accident of this type has happened in Brazil, it is already the second occurrence registered in the last two months.
A similar case, of a wind turbine falling, happened at the Ventos de São Clemente wind complex, in Caetés (PE), and to this day the company has not removed the pieces of the collapsed turbine from the site.

It is expected that GE, after this second occurrence, will launch an emergency plan for the inspection of all its wind energy towers, in a statement to the newspaper Valor, GE said that it is working to determine the cause of the incident and offer adequate support. , as needed.

Worldwide, GE has had three other incidents at its US operations. In one of them, which occurred in February, a 2,5 MW turbine fell into a wind complex in New Mexico.
In May, the occurrence was in Oklahoma with a 2,4 MW machine and in July, GE registered the incident with a turbine in the State of Nebraska.

GE is the market leader in Brazil, where it holds around 35% of the 15 gigawatts (GW) of wind power in operation.

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