A 41-year-old worker died Tuesday, December 22 on the construction site of the metro line 16 of the Grand Paris Express in La Courneuve, in Seine-Saint-Denis, after a fall into a grinding tank located 30 meters deep, said the Bobigny prosecutor's office on Thursday, December 24.
"
An investigation is currently being carried out by the La Courneuve police station on the count of manslaughter in the context of work,
" said this source.
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This is the first death of a worker on the site of the Grand Paris Express, a mega-project for a public transport network made up of four metro lines and intended to link the suburbs of Île-de-France together.
The victim was an employee of the Eiffage construction company.
The French group said it was "
extremely affected by the death of one of its companions and stands alongside the family and all the teams of the sites concerned to accompany them
", told AFP a door - speech by Eiffage.
A week before this fatal accident, another serious accident had taken place on the future line 16, in Saint-Denis, but on another site under construction.
Thursday, December 17, "
a companion, following a fall, was operated on for a triple fracture of the femur,
" said the company Eiffage in
Paris
.
In 2019, the number of work accidents rose to 655,715 new recognized claims (+ 0.6% compared to 2018), according to Health Insurance figures.
In its latest report, dating from 2017, the National Health Insurance Fund (Cnam), which only counts private sector employees, mentions 530 employees who died at their workplace, not to mention the 264 cases of death on their way to work. or cases of suicides, ie more than 10 people each week in France, a “
stable
”
figure
.
With an almost continuous decline for 20 years, the construction industry remains the most accident-prone sector, but recognized accidents have fallen by 29% over the past 10 years.