Worker dies run over by truck on A1 motorway

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 10 - A 39-year-old worker was fatally run over by a truck on Italy's main A1 north-south motorway between Rome and Naples on Tuesday, the latest in a spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy.
    The maintenance worker, who lived in Campania, was hit and killed by a DAF articulated lorry from the AF Logistics transport company, while he was working on some work along a section of the Autostrada del Sole in the Ciociaria arear between Lazio and Campania. The accident occurred around 10 am, on the section that leads south, just before the Cassino toll booth. The victim was an employee of a company in the province of Caserta that was redoing the signs on that section of the motorway.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni recently announced 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 last week that 860 fatal work-related accidents were reported to it in the first 10 months of 2024, a rise of 2.5% 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.
    The latest tragedy came Monday when five men were killed by a blast at an Eni fuels depot near Florence.
    Meanwhile there has been a steady stream of more than daily individual deaths. (ANSA).