A fire that occurred this afternoon on Tulipán Street, in the Havana municipality of Plaza de la Revolución, left five workers injured while a team from the Manufactured Gas Company was performing repair work on a malfunction that affected the supply to local residents, according to a report from the entity itself via CUPET.
The five affected workers belong to that state-owned company and are already receiving hospital care. According to the information available at the time of the report, none are in life-threatening condition.
The Fire Department quickly controlled the fire, preventing the flames from spreading to other areas of the residential zone.
The causes of the incident are under investigation. The company reported that it will continue to provide updates on the progress of the situation and the health status of the workers.
The accident occurred during excavation work with heavy machinery in the public roadway, a common practice for locating and repairing faults in underground gas pipelines.
The authorities of the Manufactured Gas Company and the local government are keeping abreast of the situation, as specified by the official media Cubadebate, which added that "updates will continue to be provided on the development of this incident and the causes that triggered it."
The incident occurs within a year characterized by repeated interruptions of the manufactured gas service in Havana.
At the end of June, a major breakdown left between 208,000 and 284,000 customers without service in eight municipalities of the capital. In July, a complete shutdown for maintenance affected both production plants.
In August, a breakdown at the Canasí collection center deprived seven municipalities in the capital of gas.
And just eight days before the accident this Saturday, new partial and total disruptions hit the network due to insufficient supply following maintenance work at the Energas plant in Puerto Escondido.
The Manufactured Gas Company, affiliated with CUPET, operates a distribution network of over 851 km of underground pipelines that supplies more than 208,000 customers across eight municipalities in Havana.
Its infrastructure includes two main plants: Plant No. 1 "Evelio Rodríguez Curbelo," with more than 100 years of history, and Plant No. 2 in Marianao.
This isn't the first time that workers have been injured in gas-related incidents in Cuba.
In October 2025, an explosion of a gas cylinder at a hotel in Villa Clara left three injured, and in June 2024, two workers were hospitalized following a gas leak at a company.
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