Friday saw three more workplace
accidents in Italy in a spate of job fatalities that union UIL
said kills more people than the mafia.
A 21-year-old construction worker died in Sicily while another
worker fell to his death from a motorway maintenance site into
the northern Italian Adda River, and another 21-year-old, a farm
worker, was crushed to death when his tractor overturned at
Minturno near Latina south of Rome.
The young man in Sicily, Angelo Giardina, died while at work in
a shed of a construction company producing concrete products in
Canicattì, in the Agrigento area.
According to an initial reconstruction, he was run over by a
forklift truck he was manoeuvring.
Up at the Adda River, the worker was named as Claudio Tigni, 58.
He was working on a channel when he apparently slipped and fell,
being dragged under the water by the heavy gear he was wearing.
At Minturno, a hill town south of Latina on the way to Frosinone
north of Naples, the tractor overturned for reasons that have
not yet been established, killing the young man instantly.
The latest trio of deaths are part of several several recent
workplace accidental fatalities in Italy - another two on
Tuesday.
Almost 500 people have been killed in work accidents in Italy so
far this year, the national observatory on the phenomenon said
last Friday.
There were about 1,000 last year, it said.
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.
Eight workers were injured, five critically, in an explosion at
an aluminum plant in Bolzano last week.
One has since died of his injuries while others are said to be
still fighting for their lives from their critical burns.
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