Paprec Calais Worker Falls Into Waste Bunker, Body Recovered After Eight Hours

A Paprec employee fell into a waste treatment tank at the Sevadec facility in Calais on Tuesday morning. At approximately 9:30 AM, during maintenance operations inside a rotating fermentation tube with a diameter of 4 meters and containing around 200 tons of matter, an alert was raised by colleagues regarding what initially appeared to be gas inhalation but turned out to be a fall into the equipment. The body was extracted just before 6 PM following more than eight hours of complex rescue operations involving firefighters from Pas-de-Calais, specialized urban search and rescue teams, canine units, and significant human and material resources deployed due to the constrained industrial environment.