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Alban Millot found the job offer on Leboncoin. A resourceful jack of all trades doing odd jobs, he had no experience in installing photovoltaic panels or working at height. Three weeks after he was hired, he fell through the roof of a hangar on March 10, 2021. A fatal fall of more than 5 meters. On his 25th birthday.
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“When the gendarme tells you, he talks about an “accident”, as they say when someone dies on the road,” painfully remembers Laurent Millot, his father. The fall always firstly reflects the idea of an error of attention, of an imbalance. Blame it on bad luck. And especially to the victim – didn’t Alban step on a translucent plate that he knew was fragile?
It is only some time later that these little sentences come back to memory which give« accident » another meaning. “I had spoken to Alban on the phone a week before. He told me that his job was extremely dangerous, and that he was going to buy his own harness because the one provided by the company was low-end.”, says Véronique Millot, her mother. When to reassure her he said to her: “I’m only doing this until summer”she answered : “Don’t kill yourself for a job…”
Inexperienced
The investigation, detailed in this file, revealed a staggering list of dysfunctions and violations of the labor code of the SME which employed him, whose officially registered activity (its NAF or APE code) was “retail trade in hardware, paints”. The only fully qualified technician had left the company two months before Alban was hired. Of the twenty-five employees, around ten salespeople and only three teams of two installers, who were therefore subject to an intense pace to fulfill orders.
Before his death, Alban and his colleague of 20 years, and only three months of seniority, left Narbonne (Aude) on Monday for a first project in Charente, then another in Ille-et-Vilaine, before a third, the next day, in Côtes-d’Armor, and a final one, on Wednesday, in Ille-et-Villaine, where the accident took place. Alban, the only one to have the license, had driven the entire route.
Inexperienced, the two men had received only basic safety training. And, above all, they did not have full harnesses to attach themselves to, as the labor inspector noted on the day of the tragedy.
“Total” and “disconcerting” ignorance of the manager
Without equipment, they rented a ladder from Kiloutou on site. “How much does a photovoltaic panel weigh? “, asked the president of the Rennes criminal court, during the trial at first instance. “Eighteen kilos”, replied the business manager. “Do you have to climb the ladder with the sign under your arm? “, the president wondered. “It depends on the site. »
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2024-02-08 00:12:42
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