The body of an employee who went missing Monday during a serious accident in a factory of the steel maker Ugitech in Ugine (Savoie) was found Tuesday morning, said the Albertville prosecutor's office.
An investigation for manslaughter has been opened and entrusted in cosaisine to the Albertville research brigade and the labor inspectorate, Albertville prosecutor Anne Gaches told AFP.
It also mobilized an expert in metallurgy and an association to help victims to support the family.
Collapse of a bridge
"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, ”the prefecture explained on Monday.
The investigation services should be able to access "at the end of the week" to the place where the body of the 38-year-old employee, employed since 2018 in this subsidiary of the Swiss Steel Group, was discovered.
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", explains the prefecture.
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