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four pensioners injured by the fall of a crane in Annonay

The resumption of construction sites is not without danger. Four people were slightly injured Monday afternoon in the fall of a crane on a retirement home in Annonay (Ardeche).

The facts took place shortly before 3 p.m. on the site of the Protestant retirement home Montalivet when for some reason still indefinite, a crane “of ten meters”, which was installed next to it, collapsed, the boom of the construction machine touching a room of the building, explained the firemen, confirming information from the Dauphiné Libéré.

Residents temporarily relocated

Three residents and the crane operator were injured in the accident and medicalized on the spot, added the Codis de l’Ardèche whose intervention mobilized on the spot a staff of about forty people.

Twelve other residents of the retirement home are to be relocated by this evening, said the Ardèche prefecture.


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