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 bill he sent to the Tapestry Manufactory Goya described this scene as: “two men carrying another, who has clearly fallen from some scaffolding, which is seen further off.” The painting has thus been interpreted as an Enlightenment critique of the vulnerability of men at work. Goya moderated the tone of his initial sketch (P02782), in which the injured man is made fun of by his colleagues. 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.