A farmer working his hazelnut plot
near Cuneo was crushed to death when his tractor overturned on
Thursday, the 13th workplace accident fatality in Italy in the
last three days.
The accident happened at Roddi.
Also Thursday, a 56-year-old construction worker died in a
10-metre fall from scaffolding on the roof of a building near
Reggio Emilia
The accident happened in the hamlet of Borzano, part of the town
of Albinea.
A man was crushed to death by a truck near Verona Wednesday
night, the 11th workplace death in Italy in two days, officials
said Wednesday.
The man died instantly at Cologna Veneta, they said.
Five men were killed on the job in Italy on Wednesday after six
on Tuesday.
Job death data on Thursday belied the recent spate of
workplace-accident deaths that Premier Mario Draghi has dubbed a
massacre.
The glut of deaths Tuesday and Wednesday spurred Draghi to
announce immediate and stiffer penalties for those flouting work
safety standards.
But workplace accident insurance agency INAIL said workplace
accident fatalities actually fell, by 6.2% to 772, in the first
eight months of the year.
However, reports of all accidents on the job rose 8.5% to
349,449 from January to August compared to the same period last
year, INAIL said.
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