Worker killed in accident at Asti

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 14 - A 32-year-old Italia worker died in hospital Wednesday after being electrocuted in a work accident at Asti at the weekend, the latest in a long spate of fatal Italian workplace accidents.
    The man, Nicholas Colombini, working for 'Gigli e Pacifici', a company in Terni engaged in maintenance work at the A2A in Quarto d'Asti, left a wife, Anna, and two children, one a few months old and the other three years old.
    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).