Friday saw two 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.
The young man in Sicily 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.
He was one of several recent workplace accidental fatalities -
two on Tuesday alone.
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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