A 26-year-old security guard from
Cagliari, Niccolò Meloni, has died after being hit by a sliding
gate in a company in Sestu, in the metropolitan city of
Cagliari.
The accident occurred during the night, in a factory located
along the state road 131 "Carlo Felice".
He worked for the company Pegaso Security.
The accident occurred in the Tecnosolution company, located in
Sestu on state road 131.
On site, in addition to 118, the firefighters immediately
intervened and alerted the Carabinieri of the Sestu station, who
are now working to reconstruct the dynamics of the tragedy
together with the staff of the Spresal of the ASL locakl health
agency of Cagliari.
From what has been learned, the security guard was crushed by
the sliding gate that gives access to the company headquarters.
With him was a colleague who immediately raised the alarm.
Meloni is the latest in a long spate of fatal workplace
accidents in Italy.
President Sergio Mattarella said earlier this month that
workplace health and safety must be a "permanent priority".
Workplace accident insurance agency INAIL said recently that 680
fatal work-related accidents were reported to it in the first
eight months of 2024, a rise of 3.5% on the equivalent period in
2023.
On October 1 the Senate OK'd a bill to teach workplace safety
amid the long spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy.
Premier Giorgia Meloni recently announced that the government
has approved the recruitment of 1,600 new labour inspectors.
Concern has been 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 one daily
individual death.
Two workers died following an explosion in a warehouse near
Bologna Wednesday.
The two victims were identified as Lorenzo Cubello, 37, and
Fabio Tosi, 34, both from Bologna.
The violent explosion, reportedly caused by a compressor,
occurred around 5:20 pm in a factory in via Persicetana Vecchia,
in the Borgo Panigale area of Bologna at a warehouse of 'Toyota
Material Handling', a multinational that deals with goods
handling. Meanwhile, following the fatal incident, the Bologna
chapters of leading metalworkers' unions Fiom-Cgil, Fim-Cisl and
Uilm-Uil organized a one-day strike on Friday to protest against
work-related deaths.
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