A 28-year-old construction worker
died on Monday when a crane operating in a building site in
central Milan dropped its load on top of him by mistake.
The victim, from Egypt, died instantly.
Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said the accident is "yet another
tragedy at work".
"We keep making calls about safety, but objectively not enough
is being done," he continued, adding that not just protocols but
also "constant supervision" are needed.
Workplace safety "is becoming an extremely delicate issue that
explodes at times in the face of tragedies and then it is
forgotten", said Sala.
"But it cannot work like that," he concluded.
Last month workplace accident insurance agency INAIL reported
that it had received 868 reports of work-related deaths in the
first 10 months of the year, down 4.5% over the same period in
2022.
Reports of work-related accidents also fell by 17.8% to 489,526
in the same period, INAIl added.
The agency said the reduction of accident reports was almost
exclusively due to the significant decrease in cases of
infection by COVID-19.
Last Tuesday President Sergio Mattarella said "in the face of
deaths at work or due to work, the institutions of the Republic,
at every level, have the duty to raise safety levels and take
every possible action to reduce risks and promote a culture of
prevention".
"The dignity of work and the care of life must prevail over any
other interest," he added.
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