Two more workers die, one critical as deadly spate continues

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 29 - Two more workers died and one was in critical condition as a spate of fatal workplace accidents continued in Italy Friday.
    A 60-year-old man died in an accident at a building site in Abruzzo and a 24-year-old farmer was crushed to death by his tractor near Latina south of Rome.
    In the third case, a 35-year-old worker fell 10 metres from a factory roof near Pavia and was taken to hospital in critical condition.
    Five rail maintenance workers were killed by a train at Brandizzo near Turin at the end of August.
    There have been almost a thousand workplace accident deaths so far this year, according to the Bologna Observatory on workplace safety.
    The perceived spate of accidental deaths in the workplace has spurred government action but has continued unabated.
    Trade unions say it has now reached one a day.
    A 22-year-old worker with a five-year-old son, Luana D'Orazio, was mangled to death by a weaving machine in Prato on May 3, 2021, first really putting the spotlight on the wave of workplace deaths and spurring the government action that has so far proven mostly ineffective. (ANSA).