2023-05-30 20:44:50
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A warehouse producing underwear was engulfed in flames on Tuesday, north of Paris, without causing any injuries.
This is not the first time that Aubervilliers has been affected in this way. On Tuesday, the warehouse of a company producing underwear from the lingerie brand Valege, in the city of Seine-Saint-Denis, suffered a fire so powerful that it was visible for miles away. round. And especially from the center of Paris. Employees of the warehouse, located at the corner of rue Sadi Carnot and avenue Félix Faure, evacuated the site as soon as the first flames arrived. If no injuries are to be deplored, the authorities are reassuring for the moment: the fire “not expected to present a toxic hazard“, indicates the prefecture. In the summer of 2020, fires had already broken out in another depot on the same street. But then why are these fires repeated in the textile industry?
You should know that this sector is used to using different materials such as natural or artificial fibers for its production, a major source of combustion. “Fabric production involves many fire hazards. Sparks, glowing embers or overheated particles can be generated throughout the production line and easily cause fires and dust explosions,” details Fafus-Grecona company specializing in fire prevention.
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More precisely, “the main characteristics of textiles are their properties related to flammability, flame spread, heat generation and the release of toxic combustion products”, retraces, for its part, the Occupational Safety and Health Encyclopedia. Textiles therefore present a fire hazard during their production and processing. For what ? Because “most synthetic fibers melt on heat, catch fire easily, burn intensely, sink when burning and give off considerable amounts of smoke and toxic gases.»
And as a study by the National Archives explains, these outbreaks of fires are nothing new in terms of labor history. “At the beginning of the 19th century, in northern, eastern and western France where the textile industry was set up and mechanized at a forced march, fires numbered in the hundreds, specify what document. While some are devastating, most cause only modest damage, but they nevertheless gradually shape the organization of work and the equipment of factories.
And to add: “Very quickly, the textile employers realized that the human factor should not be neglected: when the fire broke out, it was often explained by the negligence of a worker who had smoked in the workshop, had fallen asleep or would not have followed the instructions. If the fires continued for several decades, prevention policies in companies were then deployed from the middle of the 20th century. Visual campaigns or specific equipment then made it possible to reduce incidents and the risk of fire.
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