Worker falls to death at Marghera yard

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 25 - A Bangladeshi worker died in hospital in Mestre near Venice Tuesday from injuries sustained in a fall Monday night at the Fincantieri shipyard at Marghera near the lagoon city.
    The man, Islam Miah, fell at around eight o'clock at night.
    A local union declared a two hour strike in solidarity with Miah's relatives and in his memory.
    Worker dies falling from scaffolding near Palermo (4) Latest in long spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy Almost 500 people have been killed in work accidents in Italy so far this year, the national observatory on the phenomenon said Friday.
    There were about 1,000 last year, it said.
    Five men died after inhaling toxic gas in a sewer network near Palermo last month, 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 week.
    One has since died of his injuries while others are said to be still fighting for their lives from their critical burns.
    (ANSA).