Lot: a man dies crushed by beer kegs at a village festival – TF1

Day village that was to take place in Varaire, in the Batch , was marred by a sad accident. A man is death crushed by drums beer and another was seriously injured. The two men proceeded Saturday afternoon unloading barrels a truck using a forklift to feed the refreshment of the votive festival when a rupture or imbalance brought down barrels that rolled and crushed two volunteer festival committee.

One of them, aged thirty years, father and resident in the Loire, was killed. The other was seriously wounded and evacuated by helicopter to a hospital in Toulouse.

The festival was canceled, an investigation was opened and a psychological support cell set up.

If the causes that led to the fall of the drums has not yet been confirmed, a technician in criminal investigation Cahors dispatched by the prosecutor and cited by The Dispatch spoke “possible breakage of a retaining hook of the load.”