Worker dies in accident at Potenza law courts

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 26 - A worker died in an accident at the law courts in the southern city of Potenza Tuesday, the latest in a long spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy.
    The man was reportedly busy replacing some large windows, one of which hit him on while he was on a lifting platform, local sources said.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni recently announced that the government has approved the recruitment of 1,600 new labour inspectors, amid the alarm about the spate of workplace deaths.
    National labour accidents and occupational illness agency INAIL said this month that 776 fatal work-related accidents were reported to it in the first nine months of 2024, a rise of 2% on the equivalent period in 2023.
    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.
    Meanwhile there has been a steady stream of more than daily individual deaths. (ANSA).