Worker crushed to death by machinery in Milan area

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 10 - A worker died Friday night in the Tecnostill aliminium shutter making firm workshop in Bareggio, in the province of Milan, in the latest in a spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy.
    According to the fire brigade, the man was trapped in a Bobcat, between the shovel and the chassis.
    Rescuers from the 118 and Ats Città metropolitana, the Abbiategrasso company carabinieri and the Milan fire brigade arrived on the scene.
    But it was not possible to save the 61-year-old man.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni announced last month that the government has approved the recruitment of 1,600 new labour inspectors, amid an alarm about the spate of workplace deaths in Italy.
    Concern has been 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.
    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. (ANSA).