Worker crushed to death by forklift near Caserta

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 31 - A 39-year-old Italian worker was crushed to death by a forklift near Caserta Tuesday in the latest in a long spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy.
    The accident took place at Gricignano d'Aversa, just outside the city north of Naples.
    The worker, resident in Capodrise, lost his life in the company Frigocaserta Srl, where he was an employee.
    The man was crushed by the forklift while carrying out goods handling services, and died instantly.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni recently announced the recruitment of 1,600 new labour inspectors, amid the alarm about the spate of workplace deaths.
    National labour accidents and occupational illness agency INAIL said recently that 860 fatal work-related accidents were reported to it in the first 10 months of 2024, a rise of 2.5% on the equivalent period in 2023.
    Concern over workplace safety was 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.
    The latest multiple tragedy came earlier this month when five men were killed by a blast at an Eni fuels depot near Florence.
    Meanwhile there has been a steady stream of more than daily individual deaths. (ANSA).