A 55-year-old Italian man fell six
metres to his death while on the job in the firm near Bergamo
Tuesday, in the latest in a wave of fatal workplace accidents in
Italy.
The man, a construction entrepreneur died after falling from the
buckets of a forklift used to reach a wall he was cleaning in
the courtyard of a company.
The man, who lived in Clusone and was the owner of a road paving
company, died on impact.
Premier Giorgia Meloni recently announced the recruitment of
1,600 new labour inspectors, amid the alarm about the spate of
workplace deaths.
National labour accidents and occupational illness agency INAIL
said recently that 860 fatal work-related accidents were
reported to it in the first 10 months of 2024, a rise of 2.5% on
the equivalent period in 2023.
Concern over workplace safety was heightened by the June death
of Satnam Singh, an off-the-books 31-year-old Indian farm
labourer who bled out after being dumped outside his hut with an
arm severed by wrapping machinery placed beside him on a fruit
picking box at Latina south of Rome.
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.
The latest multiple tragedy came last month when five men were
killed by a blast at an Eni fuels depot near Florence.
Meanwhile there has been a steady stream of almost daily
individual deaths.
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