1,000 reports of deaths at work in 11 mts, +3.3% - INAIL

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 10 - Workplace accident insurance agency INAIL said Friday it had got 1,000 reports of fatal accidents at work in Italy in the first 11 months of last year, a rise of 3.3% on the same period in the previous year.
    There was a drop in cases occurring while working, from 745 to 731, and an increase in those on the way to and from work, from 223 to 269, the agency said.
    Compared to 2023, the incidence of deaths on the total number of employed people was up 2%, the institute said.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni recently announced the recruitment of 1,600 new labour inspectors, amid a nationwide alarm about a long spate of workplace deaths.
    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 last month when five men were killed by a blast at an Eni fuels depot near Florence.
    Meanwhile there has been a steady stream of almost daily individual deaths. (ANSA).