Export Grain Elevator Worker Fatally Injured; Another Worker Hospitalized [La Rochelle Port, France – 06 March 2026]

Posted by admin on Mar 8, 2026 in Bulletins

Information coming to Blueoceana Company has us understand that an as-yet-unnamed 60 year old worker was killed and another was seriously injured at the Socomac export grain marine terminal at La Rochelle port on Friday (06 March).

Media reports (See below) reveal that the workers were preparing for upcoming maintenance of the grain elevator’s system of belt conveyers, when a one ton counterweight used to stretch/tighten the material that forms the conveyor’s belt accidentally fell striking the decedent and ejecting the other worker from the working surface that had both occupied.

Link To Media Accounts:

A work accident leaves one dead and one seriously injured at the commercial port of La Rochelle (030626)Download

La Rochelle- a worker died and one injured in the collapse of a metal walkway at the Grand Port Maritime (030626)Download

One dead and one seriously injured in a work accident on the port of La Rochelle (030626)Download

GRAND PORT MARITIME DE LA ROCHELLE et les silots de Sica atlantique de La Pallice. Photos aérienne. La Rochelle, le 13 09 2009. PHOTO XAVIER LEOTY – Leoty Xavier ( minimes, La Pallice )

Above: Orientation of La Rochelle port, France