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Scaffolding, first testimonies, legal investigation… what we know about the tragedy
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“It’s quite scary, it’s a hard blow,” reacts Lauren Chérubin, the mayor of Labège
“It was the gendarmerie who informed me of the accident and I immediately went to the site, to the plot between Madron and Enova, on the former Sanofi site,” says Lauren Chérubin, the mayor of Labège. “When I arrived, the teams were shocked. It’s quite frightening. The emergency services intervened quickly and efficiently in setting up a security perimeter and to ease traffic flow. When a tragedy occurs “So, it’s a hard blow, we think first of the families and I offer them my condolences. The progress of the construction site is something else, the experts will have to come and that will take some time.”
“It was my first intervention on a device of this magnitude” testifies an emergency doctor
It is almost 5:30 p.m. this Monday when Dr Salomé Sousa, emergency doctor at Samu 31 arrives at the accident at the metro construction site in Labège. “I arrived as head of the Samu to supervise the multi-victim system,” she tells the Dépêche du Midi.
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What is this construction site where the tragedy took place?
On the Tisséo construction site of line C of the Toulouse metro, in Labège, part of the deck of a bridge under construction collapsed. Here are the details of the work that was in progress ⬇️
One dead after the collapse of a bridge under construction in Toulouse: what is this line C construction site on which the tragedy took place?
Tisséo sends his condolences to the family and loved ones of the victim
“We send our sincere condolences to the family and loved ones and we share their sorrow,” wrote Tisséo, the operator of the Toulouse public transport network, this Monday evening. “We also have a thought for the collaborators who worked with them on a daily basis,” says Tisséo, according to whom “search operations” are still underway to confirm the toll of the victims.
The breakage of a cylinder “a priori” at the origin of the tragedy, affirms the public prosecutor of Toulouse
“A priori”, the “breakage of a jack between two piles of the Labege aerial metro site” is at the origin of the tragedy, indicates Samuel Vuelta-Simon, the public prosecutor of Toulouse, at the start of the evening. “Six people were working on it, and four were on it when it collapsed and jumped,” he said. “Among them, one person died, two were injured and hospitalized at Purpan University Hospital and the fourth was also injured and hospitalized in a clinic.”
“We will never get used to such accidents”, declares the president of Tisséo, Jean-Michel Lattes
“Tisséo engineering, as the prime contractor, immediately opened a crisis unit, in conjunction with the Bouygues company, which is carrying out the work on the bridge, to understand what could have happened, in parallel with the investigation into the labor inspectorate which will look into the safety conditions on the site”, indicated the president of the Toulouse transport authority Tisséo, Jean-Michel Lattes. “According to the first elements available to us, these are prefabricated elements, the segments on which the deck rests, which have collapsed. But it is still too early to know where there was a failure. This evening, it is especially the emotion that prevails with the death of an employee. We will never get used to such accidents, such tragedies.”
“We heard a big boom, there was smoke everywhere!”
“We heard a big boom in the parking lot, there was smoke everywhere,” said the first witnesses interviewed on site. According to our information, it was two young gendarmes who were patrolling in the area who first intervened to help the victims. Four people were then on the ground, including one unconscious. It was the latter who died. According to one of the workers who was working on the site at the time of the disaster, it was a scaffolding which collapsed and which caused the structure to fall.
Two people in absolute emergency
One person is dead and two others are in absolute emergency, according to information from La Dépêche du Midi . According to our journalists on site, rescuers are currently continuing their search in the rubble of the concrete platform which collapsed. Three teams from SMUR (Mobile Emergency and Resuscitation Service), or a dozen emergency doctors from Toulouse University Hospital, were dispatched. The Samu has opened a crisis unit, we have learned.
In addition, a man in relative emergency was evacuated to the Croix du Sud clinic, in Quint-Fonsegrives, La Dépêche learned. A dozen people are also in a state of shock. A listening and support point will be set up tomorrow morning by the Samu medico-psychological unit
One person died, another in absolute emergency and three in relative emergency.
Part of the deck of a bridge under construction collapsed on the Tisséo construction site of line C of the Toulouse metro this Monday, March 4. Since 5:05 p.m., 53 firefighters and 20 SDIS31 vehicles have been responding to 505 rue Jean Rostand. The balance sheet has not yet stabilized. Search operations are underway. According to our information, one person has died, another is in absolute emergency and three in relative emergency.