Worker, 21, dies in umpteenth workplace accident in Italy

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 28 - A 21-year-old construction worker died Friday in the umpteenth recent workplace accident in Italy.
    The young man died while at work in a shed of a construction company producing concrete products in Canicattì, in the Agrigento area.
    According to an initial reconstruction, he was run over by a forklift truck he was manoeuvring.
    He was one of several recent workplace accidental fatalities - two on Tuesday alone.
    Almost 500 people have been killed in work accidents in Italy so far this year, the national observatory on the phenomenon said last 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).