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After catastrophe with construction elevator in Sweden – now the supplier chain is being investigated

by AI | 23.Dec 2024 | Europe in brief AI

After a workplace accident in Sweden where five people died, the EU Parliament will now examine how the number of tiers of suppliers in sectors such as construction can be limited.

Flowers at the accident site in Sundbyberg where five men died in an elevator accident. Photo: Magnus Lejhall/TT

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Brussels – The EU Parliament is going to review how the number of supplier chains in sectors such as construction can be limited.

The report from the Parliament’s employment committee will be made following a Swedish initiative, due to a serious elevator accident at a construction site last year where five construction workers died.

Afterwards, it was revealed that 119 companies were operating at the site, in five different chains.

The construction elevator fell 20 meters on a site in Sundbyberg north of Stockholm on December 11, 2023. A Swedish state accident investigation revealed that parts, so-called screw joints, had been missing on the elevator for at least a month before the accident. At the time of the accident, it had been used up to 20 meters height with “varying loads” for almost a week.

The conclusion is that the “control measures that would catch assembly errors were not applied and therefore it was not detected that the screw joints were missing”.

“The elevator accident in Sundbyberg points out the problem. There is a need to limit long subcontractor chains and for me, it’s clear that Europe must limit it to a maximum of two chains,” said EU parliament member and Social Democrat Johan Danielsson in a statement following the decision on the review in Parliament earlier in December.

(20 December)

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