“There was only his head coming out of the bitumen”: a young 19 -year -old died after being buried within five tonnes of tar at 200 degrees

A 19 -year -old young man died on Tuesday July 15 after being the. However, victim of a terrible work accident in Vendée.

The information was confirmed at Sable Journal By Patrice Pageaud. However, the mayor of the commune of Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups, where the facts took place.

According to the weekly, it was at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning that the emergency services were alerted to the accident that occurred on rue de la Louvetière. The victim had just been completely buried within five tonnes of hot asphalt at 200 degrees.

The young man. who was not from the town, had been “there only his head coming transported in absolute emergency to the Nantes University Hospital by helicopter. According to the councilor, it was seriously burned on 60 % of the body.

He did not survive.

“The man worked with his colleagues to redo the road. in a subdivision of the town,” reports Here Loire Oceanstating that the truck, full of hot bitumen, has not seen it.

A witness indicates to this last source that it was the workers who managed to clear the young man’s body on the road. before the help took care of it.

“I saw a lot of things, but there, I still have trouble talking about it. I saw him in the distance. and there was only his head that came out of the bitumen,” said the witness.

According to our colleagues, a second 42 -year -old man was also burned in hands. It “there only his head coming was transported to the CHD of La Roche-sur-Yon.

A gendarmerie investigation is underway. Labor inspection is also seized.