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.
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