Deadly tragedy at the Boréalis Grandpuits fertilizer production plant in Mormant.
Between 11 a.m. and noon on Wednesday, a worker who was leading to the roof for renovation work suddenly fell eight meters high, confirms the Melun prosecution.
Smur firefighters and emergency doctors quickly arrived on the scene.
But alas, despite the cardiac massage they gave him, they were unable to resuscitate the victim.
The man was pronounced dead at 12:24 p.m.
He was about thirty years old.
This fatal accident deeply shocked the victim's colleagues.
Two of them were taken to hospital in shock.
We do not know how this man, an employee of a specialized company, was able to fall from the roof on which he was working.
An investigation was opened by the gendarmes of the company of Melun.
In 2018, two workers burned with citric acid
Fatal falls from roofs happen to even the most seasoned and experienced workers.
This was the case for a roofer, in his forties, who was doing leak reconnaissance on the roof of a six-storey private building on boulevard Voltaire in Paris in 2018. Or for a 52-year-old craftsman who worked on the roof of a house, killed after a 5 m fall on the concrete floor, in Margny-lès-Compiègne, in the Oise in 2019.
Neighboring the Total Energies refinery, the Seveso-classified chemical plant at Grandpuits has already experienced workplace accidents involving its own personnel.
In 2018, two employees were burned by citric acid from a leak.
Contacted, the management of Boréalis Grandpuits could not be reached.