It is a week of mourning for Futuroscope, the famous Poitevin amusement park, where a worker died this Monday, April 15, 2024 due to a fatal fall. The victim, who was working on the construction of a new water attraction, Mission Bermuda, “He fell from a great height onto the hatch of a construction site”We found out from the prosecutor's office.

An investigation has been opened for homicide in the workplace. Entrusted to the Gendarmerie, it must determine the working conditions of the worker as well as the safety of the trap in question.

The management of Futuroscope, for its part, affirms “in the crash” and claims to be standing “Fully mobilized together with the authorities to clarify the circumstances of this dramatic accident”.

Construction professions, still too risky

This accident revives the debate on the working conditions of workers and on the safety of works in the construction sector, whose professions remain too risky. In fact, according to a Health Insurance study on health and safety at work in France, the construction sector represents 14% of workplace accidents in 2022 and more than 20% of recognized deaths. The main identified causes of these tragedies are manual handling and falls.