A 56-year-old worker was crushed to
death by machinery in the Novara area Tuesday, the latest in a
long spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy.
The man was reportedly crushed by a piece of machinery while he
was working in a railway yard.
The accident took place at in Meina, in the province of Novara.
Almost 500 people have been killed in work accidents in Italy so
far this year, the national observatory on the phenomenon said
last month.
There were about 1,000 last year, it said.
Five men died after inhaling toxic gas in a sewer network near
Palermo in May, and seven died in a hydro power plant blast
near Bologna in April.
Eight workers were injured, five critically, in an explosion at
an aluminum plant in Bolzano last month.
One has since died of his injuries while others are said to be
still fighting for their lives from their critical burns.
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