Two workers carry another, who has been wounded in a work accident. The scaffolding in the background reveals the underlying subject as workers' safety.

The painting is an example of Goya's social preoccupations. In the definitive composition, He modified the idea of the original sketch, in which the wounded and clearly inebriated mason is the subject of his companions' jokes and laughter. Thus, Goya changes the comic meaning of this scene into a drama.

This cartoon was for one of the tapestries intended for the Prince of Asturias' dining room at the El Pardo Palace.