Ronny died at work - the preliminary investigation was closed

For almost fifty years, the number of fatalities in Swedish workplaces decreased, but a few years ago the curve suddenly turned upwards. Last year, the fatalities for the third year in a row increased when 58 people lost their lives at work. This is more than one a week and now this year's figures appear to be largely the same.

One of the sticks in the statistics is the two-child father Ronny Rödengen in Strömstad. On the morning of December 13 last year, Ronny dropped off his seven-year-old daughter in lucial linen at school, before moving on to work. He was the site manager of a subcontractor on the construction of the Stenhuggaren block in Strömstad. While working on a crane site, Ronny was hit by a dump truck loaded with explosives.

He was 29 years old and became the fifty-fourth who died on the job last year. Ronny's girlfriend Petra Kärnberg was pregnant in the eighth month of the accident. When little Ronya was born in January, Ronny's funeral followed a week later.

- It was terrible, says Petra Kärnberg.

She continues:

- While you were very happy for this little girl, you would say goodbye to her dad.

The Swedish Work Environment Authority concluded that it had broken in several ways at Stenhuggaren and made a prosecution report. Prosecutors initiated the preliminary investigation, but it was closed after a few months, because according to the prosecutor could not prove that the employer violated their obligations under the law.

For Ronny's mother, it is difficult to read about new fatal accidents.

- I wish the accidents had gone down. That these who perished had meant something. After all, there were so many people who died last year and it just keeps going, says Anita Lundgren-Andersson.