Security guard dies after being hit by gate in Cagliari area

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 26 - A 26-year-old security guard from Cagliari, Niccolò Meloni, has died after being hit by a sliding gate in a company in Sestu, in the metropolitan city of Cagliari.
    The accident occurred during the night, in a factory located along the state road 131 "Carlo Felice".
    He worked for the company Pegaso Security.
    The accident occurred in the Tecnosolution company, located in Sestu on state road 131.
    On site, in addition to 118, the firefighters immediately intervened and alerted the Carabinieri of the Sestu station, who are now working to reconstruct the dynamics of the tragedy together with the staff of the Spresal of the ASL locakl health agency of Cagliari.
    From what has been learned, the security guard was crushed by the sliding gate that gives access to the company headquarters.
    With him was a colleague who immediately raised the alarm.
    Meloni is the latest in a long spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy.
    President Sergio Mattarella said earlier this month that workplace health and safety must be a "permanent priority".
    Workplace accident insurance agency INAIL said recently that 680 fatal work-related accidents were reported to it in the first eight months of 2024, a rise of 3.5% on the equivalent period in 2023.
    On October 1 the Senate OK'd a bill to teach workplace safety amid the long spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni recently announced that the government has approved the recruitment of 1,600 new labour inspectors.
    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.
    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.
    Meanwhile there has been a steady stream of more than one daily individual death.
    Two workers died following an explosion in a warehouse near Bologna Wednesday.
    The two victims were identified as Lorenzo Cubello, 37, and Fabio Tosi, 34, both from Bologna.
    The violent explosion, reportedly caused by a compressor, occurred around 5:20 pm in a factory in via Persicetana Vecchia, in the Borgo Panigale area of Bologna at a warehouse of 'Toyota Material Handling', a multinational that deals with goods handling. Meanwhile, following the fatal incident, the Bologna chapters of leading metalworkers' unions Fiom-Cgil, Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil organized a one-day strike on Friday to protest against work-related deaths. (ANSA).