Terrible drama this Tuesday evening on a construction site in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis). A worker died following an accident at his workplace. The fatal accident was confirmed by the Eiffage company, in charge of the site, and by the Société du Grand Paris (SGP), the contracting authority. The circumstances remain to be determined.
The victim is said to be a 41-year-old man with three children. He was working on the site of the future metro line 16, which will link Saint-Denis to Aulnay-sous-Bois by 2025. More precisely, it was a site on the border between La Courneuve and Le Bourget, where two lines, the 16 and the 17, will cross in the future and where three tunnel boring machines are digging or in the process of doing so.
First death on the supermetro site
On this large site area, the worker died of a fall into a concrete mixer, according to a Twitter account which notes work accidents in France. Information that Eiffage does not confirm. “An investigation is underway to determine the circumstances of this tragedy”, specifies the group of BTP, which does not wish to say more for the moment.
“The group is extremely affected and stands alongside the families and all the teams from the sites concerned to support them,” says Eiffage. The SGP also says it is very touched by this tragedy and sends all its thoughts to the family of the victim.
This is the first death to be deplored on this “construction site of the century” which aims to build 200 km of additional metro lines in Greater Paris. About a hundred projects are in progress, in Seine-Saint-Denis, in Hauts-de-Seine and Val-de-Marne, many of them at very great depths of 25 to 50 m, in complex conditions.
Another serious accident last week
This fatal accident comes one week after a previous serious accident at another site under construction on the future line 16, in Saint-Denis. Thursday, December 17, “a companion, following a fall, was operated on for a triple fracture of the femur,” said Eiffage.
SGP recalls that the safety of its construction sites is “a priority subject” and that it is “extremely important and that the work be carried out under optimal safety conditions”.
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