It was almost 4 p.m. this Saturday when emergency services were called to the town of Arronville.
When they arrived in this village located on the Oise border, they discovered a seriously injured young man.
The victim is an 18-year-old apprentice from a construction company who was working on the roof of a house under construction.
The latter fell approximately 10 m, before ending up on the ground.
Its very delicate management required the assistance of a team from the reconnaissance and intervention group in dangerous environments (Grimp) of the Val-d'Oise firefighters.
The young roofer was immediately transported in absolute emergency by the Dragon 75, the Paris civil security helicopter, to the Beaujon hospital in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine).
On Saturday, his vital prognosis was in jeopardy.
Was the young man well equipped?
Two investigations are being opened at the same time to shed light on the circumstances of this accident.
One by the gendarmes of the Marine brigade under the aegis of the Pontoise public prosecutor's office, the other carried out by the labor inspectorate which also visited the site.
The two parts can be joined for possible legal proceedings.
According to our information, the victim did not have all the mandatory safety equipment at the time of his fall.
For the moment, the construction site has been suspended until further notice.
This work accident is far from being an isolated case.
According to figures provided by Health Insurance, their number reaches more than 600,000 per year in France, including still too many deaths.
“Every day, two people die at work and more than a hundred are seriously injured,” said the campaign launched on the subject by the government at the end of last year following awareness-raising operations carried out by the regional economic directorate. , employment and work (Drieets) of Île-de-France.
A scourge that has been warning families of victims of fatal work accidents for several years, now united as a collective, to call for “stopping the massacre”.
According to Matthieu Lépine, this history professor from Seine-Saint-Denis, who has been recording workplace accidents throughout France since 2017, there would have already been at least 67 deaths at work in 2024.