Farmer crushed to death by tractor, 13th fatality in 3 days

(ANSA) - BOLOGNA, SEP 30 - A farmer working his hazelnut plot near Cuneo was crushed to death when his tractor overturned on Thursday, the 13th workplace accident fatality in Italy in the last three days.
    The accident happened at Roddi.
    Also Thursday, a 56-year-old construction worker died in a 10-metre fall from scaffolding on the roof of a building near Reggio Emilia The accident happened in the hamlet of Borzano, part of the town of Albinea.
    A man was crushed to death by a truck near Verona Wednesday night, the 11th workplace death in Italy in two days, officials said Wednesday.
    The man died instantly at Cologna Veneta, they said.
    Five men were killed on the job in Italy on Wednesday after six on Tuesday.
    Job death data on Thursday belied the recent spate of workplace-accident deaths that Premier Mario Draghi has dubbed a massacre.
    The glut of deaths Tuesday and Wednesday spurred Draghi to announce immediate and stiffer penalties for those flouting work safety standards.
    But workplace accident insurance agency INAIL said workplace accident fatalities actually fell, by 6.2% to 772, in the first eight months of the year.
    However, reports of all accidents on the job rose 8.5% to 349,449 from January to August compared to the same period last year, INAIL said. (ANSA).