A worker at the Grand Paris Express site “was hit by a telescopic truck which rolled over him” on Monday, according to several sources contacted by AFP (police source and prosecutor’s office). The accident occurred in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) and the man is between life and death.
The worker was working on a construction site on line 16 and the accident occurred on Monday morning. Suffering from a fractured pelvis, femur and a swollen abdomen, he was transported by helicopter to a Paris hospital with a life-threatening condition. According to the Bobigny prosecutor’s office, the condition of the 46-year-old worker was still critical on Tuesday and his vital prognosis was engaged. “The police station is seized and the labor inspectorate will also be seized,” continued the prosecution.
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 construction site of the future line 17.
He is the fifth worker to die on a Grand Paris Express site. 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 heavy load during a handling operation.