A missing person is actively sought by the emergency services after a "
serious accident
" which occurred Monday January 3 in a factory of the steel maker Ugitech in Ugine (Savoie), indicated the prefecture of the department.
"
For a still unknown reason
", an overhead crane used to transport loads in a workshop on the site "
collapsed during a production operation, causing the fall of a bucket containing molten metal, without flow of the latter at this stage,
”according to the same source.
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A missing person is actively sought by the emergency services, while the other employees of the Ugitech plant, a subsidiary of the Swiss Steel Group, were evacuated outside the building.
About fifty firefighters were mobilized to cool the installations, the operation requiring "
to make openings in the side bays of the steelworks building to allow the heat to escape
".
This maneuver generated fumes "
which do not present a danger to the population,
" said the prefecture.
An electrical fire, probably linked to the collapse of the bridge, broke out on the site, said the director of the departmental fire and rescue service (SDIS) of Savoie, Emmanuel Clavaud, to the regional daily Le Dauphiné Libéré. .
"
We are very actively looking for the worker who has disappeared but we are intervening in a context where we have in particular a pocket of molten metal nearby, so that requires taking a lot of precautions
", he added, specifying that the The relief operation promised to be "
long-term
".
