A 46-year-old worker is between life and death after being crushed by a telescopic truck on a Grand Paris Express site in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis).
The accident happened shortly before 9 a.m. on Monday. The worker was working on a construction site on line 16 when he “was hit by a telescopic truck which rolled over him”, according to a police source quoted by AFP. Suffering from a fractured pelvis, femur and a swollen abdomen, he was transported by helicopter to a Paris hospital with a life-threatening condition.
“The police station is seized and the labor inspectorate will also be seized,” said the prosecution. “We are in contact with the works company and we keep ourselves regularly informed of the evolution of his state of health”, declared for its part the Société du Grand Paris, contracting authority of the Grand Paris Express, specifying that the worker was working “on behalf of the Webuild/NGE business group”.
Five fatal accidents
Many serious accidents, including five fatalities, have been recorded since the start of work in 2015. On April 6, a 21-year-old Malian apprentice, Seydou Fofana, died crushed by a concrete block in Gonesse, in the Val-d ‘Oise, on the site of the future line 17. Before him, at the beginning of March, another worker had died on the site of the Blanc-Mesnil station: the victim, employed by a transport company, had been hit by a load heavy during a handling operation.
The 200 km of the Grand Paris Express include four new automatic metro lines, numbered 15 to 18, as well as extensions of lines 11 and 14. Built around a circular line, several branches are to link the airports of Orly and Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, the scientific center of Saclay and the popular districts of Seine-Saint-Denis which are currently poorly served. The new lines should come into service between 2025 and 2030.
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