Three people were injured, two of them seriously, during an incident in a factory of the steel manufacturer Novasco (formerly Ascométal) in Hagondange, in Moselle, which occurred this Monday, November 25, around 9:30 p.m.
A pocket of molten metal fell, firefighters said, adding that there were two seriously injured and one lightly injured. Their vital prognosis is not engaged.
An investigation is underway
Novasco confirmed in a press release the occurrence of “a major accident” at the Hagondange steelworks during which “three employees were seriously injured” and taken “to the burns unit of Mercy, near Metz”.
They took a wave of steel. This is the first time this has happened. We don’t know what happened,” a factory employee testified to our colleagues from France 3 Grand Est.
“We are doing everything we can to determine the causes of this serious accident. The installation was secured by the teams and fire services. The latter, accompanied by an expert, were able to note the absence of any risk of contamination or pollution both for the employees present and for the surroundings of the factory”, specifies Novasco.
“An investigation is now underway and the steelworks will remain shut down for the duration of the analysis,” it added. A medical-psychological emergency unit has been set up on the Hagondange site, which employs around 450 people.
“In these difficult circumstances, our priority is to support the victims and do everything to understand the exact causes of last night’s events,” Novasco said.
Formerly Ascométal, the Hagondange factory was renamed Novasco in September, a few months after the purchase of Ascométal in July by the British fund Greybull Capital, a specialist in the recovery of companies in difficulty.
Original article published on BFMTV.com
