On Friday July 12, 2024, a scaffolding 60 meters high collapsed from a building under construction in the Malley district.Keystone
The Vaud public prosecutor seeks to determine the responsibility in the collapse of the scaffolding which cost the life of three workers in Prilly. Her gaze now turns to the suva, from whom she requires new documents.
02.05.2025, 15:0102.05.2025, 15:01
The SUVA is found in the viewfinder of Vaud’s justice after the dramatic collapse of a scaffolding in Prilly (VD) in July 2024.
According to the program Time of the RTSProsecutor Eric Mermoud ordered the insurer last October to provide him with a number of documents for his investigation. And among them, the inspection reports that preceded the drama that cost three workers’ lives and made several injured.
The triple role of the Suva
One of the tracks followed by the investigators is indeed that of a possible negligence in the verification of the anchor points of the scaffolding. And the SUVA is at the same time owner, insurer and body control body.
The RTS In particular, mention of email exchanges between the suva and the Roth scaffold dating from February 2024 where the latter stipulates that the scaffolding of the tower, although almost 60 meters high would not need to be reinforced beyond 50 meters.
The RTS Also noted that SUVA, as the main organ inspection body in Switzerland, is in parallel its own investigation into tragedy. Alone to communicate, she claims to have carried out checks before the accident – largely subcontracted to another company – but does not indicate the precise number.
A “conflict of interest”?
Insurer, investor and controller, that in any case does a lot of caps for the Unia union, which sees it as a risk of “conflict of interest”.
“Being a contracting authority and at the same time being the body of control of your own sites can create confusion and a certain laxity in terms of controls”
Unia on the RTS
In TimeSUVA refutes this theory and ensures that the persons in charge of the site control are “separated from the rest of the SUVA” and “work on the mandate of the Federal Commission for Work Safety, of which they receive their budget.”
Apart from the SUVA, the Roth scaffolding company and the general JPF and Construction perspectives are also targeted by the Vaud justice in this case. (Jzs)
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