Worker dies in accident at quake work site

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 12 - A worker was killed and another injured in an accident at a work site in the quake-hit town of Arquata in Abruzzo on Wednesday, local sources said.
    The pair were reportedly installing a metal containing grid on an outcrop when something went wrong and they slipped and fell several metres.
    The victim's condition immediately appeared critical and he died despite treatment from an emergency medical crew.
    The other worker was slightly injured in the fall.
    An autopsy has been ordered.
    It is the latest in a long spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy, where three deaths a day are now being reported.
    The government has vowed renewed action on workplace safety.
    Italy's three main trade union federations, CGIL, CISL and UIL, will hold a rally in Rome on Saturday October 22 to demand more action.
    CISL General Secretary Luigi Sbarra said last week: "We must stop the daily massacre in workplaces.
    "It is a serious and unacceptable phenomenon.
    "We can't allow three deaths per day to become a sad statistical figure, almost an ineluctable destiny in our country". (ANSA).