Boy, 18, crushed to death by farm machinery

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 20 - An 18-year-old boy was crushed to death by farm machinery in an accident near Lodi in northern Italy on Thursday, the latest in a long spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy.
    The boy was hit by a heavy part of a machine that fell onto him as he was working in a barn at Brembio, local sources said.
    A 20-year-old co-worker who witnessed the accident had a bad turn.
    Workplace accident insurance agency INAIL said earlier this month that fatal accidents had risen by four to 268 in the first four months of this year.
    Five men died after inhaling toxic gas in a sewer network near Palermo last month, and seven died in a hydro power plant blast near Bologna in April. (ANSA).