Workplace accident insurance agency
INAIL said Friday it had got 1,000 reports of fatal accidents at
work in Italy in the first 11 months of last year, a rise of
3.3% on the same period in the previous year.
There was a drop in cases occurring while working, from 745 to
731, and an increase in those on the way to and from work, from
223 to 269, the agency said.
Compared to 2023, the incidence of deaths on the total number of
employed people was up 2%, the institute said.
Premier Giorgia Meloni recently announced the recruitment of
1,600 new labour inspectors, amid a nationwide alarm about a
long spate of workplace deaths.
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 multiple tragedy came last month when five men were
killed by a blast at an Eni fuels depot near Florence.
Meanwhile there has been a steady stream of almost daily
individual deaths.
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