Worker seriously injured after six-metre fall in South Tenerife
A 37-year-old man has been seriously injured after falling approximately six metres from the roof of a house into a small ravine while working in Guía de Isora, Tenerife. The incident occurred at around 10 am on the access road to El Jaral when the Emergency Services received the alert.
Paramedics treated the man on site before transferring him by ambulance to the Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Both the Local Police and Guardia Civil are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fall.
A troubling pattern: workplace accidents on the rise
In the first half of 2025, the number of serious or very serious workplace accidents shot up to 107, compared with just 70 in the same period of 2024. Tragically, 18 people lost their lives, which is nearly double the 10 fatalities recorded in the first six months of the previous year.
The construction sector remains among the most at-risk, with an incidence rate of 459.71 accidents per 100,000 workers, well above other industries.
Experts warn that while minor workplace accidents appear to be declining modestly, the rise in serious and fatal incidents points to deeper issues: weak preventive measures, overreliance on outsourced safety services, and mounting pressures on staff may be contributing factors.
Just last November (2024), two workers were hurt when a roof collapsed while they were working in a house in the South of Tenerife. Both managed to exit the building unaided, but the incident highlighted the risks still present, with 111 serious accidents and 13 work-related fatalities recorded in the Canary Islands between January and October of that year.
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