An 18-year-old boy was crushed to
death by farm machinery in an accident near Lodi in northern
Italy on Thursday, the latest in a long spate of fatal workplace
accidents in Italy.
The boy was hit by a heavy part of a machine that fell onto him
as he was working in a barn at Brembio, local sources said.
A 20-year-old co-worker who witnessed the accident had a bad
turn.
Workplace accident insurance agency INAIL said earlier this
month that fatal accidents had risen by four to 268 in the first
four months of this year.
Five men died after inhaling toxic gas in a sewer network near
Palermo last month, and seven died in a hydro power
plant blast near Bologna in April.
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