A worker was crushed to death in a
quarry near Treviso in northern Italy Saturday as a grim spate
of workplace accident deaths continued in the country.
The man died this morning in an accident in Spresiano (Treviso)
inside the 'Canzian Inerti' quarry, which produces building
materials.
According to an initial reconstruction, the man was crushed
during the operation of closing the bank of a tank for the
transport of inert material. The fire brigade, Suem emergency
118 personnel, the Carabinieri and Spisal inspection officials
rushed to the scene but were unable to do anything for the
victim.
On Friday two more workers died and one was in critical
condition as the spate of fatal workplace accidents continued
unabated.
A 60-year-old man died in an accident at a building site in
Abruzzo and a 24-year-old farmer was crushed to death by his
tractor near Latina south of Rome.
In the third case, a 35-year-old worker fell 10 metres from a
factory roof near Pavia and was taken to hospital in critical
condition.
Five rail maintenance workers were killed by a train in an
accident at Brandizzo near Turin at the end of August.
There have been almost a thousand workplace accident deaths so
far this year, according to the Bologna Observatory on workplace
safety.
The perceived spate of accidental deaths in the workplace has
spurred government action but has continued nonetheless.
Trade unions say it has now reached one a day.
A 22-year-old worker with a five-year-old son, Luana D'Orazio,
was mangled to death by a weaving machine in Prato on May 3,
2021, first really putting the spotlight on the wave of
workplace deaths and spurring the government action that has so
far proven mostly ineffective.
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