Another worker died in a workplace
accident on Tuesday as a long spate of such deaths in Italy
continued with the second fatality in two days.
The 35-year-old worker died in an accident at work on a
construction site in Soresina, in the province of Cremona.
According to initial investigations, the victim, a crane
operator, was near his vehicle when he accidentally activated
the bucket of his Bobcat, perhaps in an attempt to take
something from the passenger compartment, and the shovel hooked
him and then continued downwards without anyone being able to
stop the mechanical arm in time.
The man, an Egyptian national living in the province of Brescia,
died instantly.
The dynamics of the accident are being examined by the
Carabinieri of Soresina and Cremona and the inspectors of the
ATS Val Padana.
On Monday a man, 59, was crushed by his dumper after it fell
into a ravine at a marble quarry at Massa Carrara in northern
coastal Tuscany.
The number of workplace accidents in Italy in the first two
months of the year was 138, unions said Monday, a rise of 16% on
the same period last year.
President Sergio Mattarella said Tuesday there was an
"intolerable indifference" on workplace deaths.
He said:
"The plague of workplace deaths shows no signs of stopping and
has already claimed hundreds of lives in our country in these
first months, with just as many families left in despair.
Neither indifference nor resignation are tolerable. It is clear
that the commitment to safety at work needs to be strengthened.
It concerns institutions, businesses, workers. I thank Cgil,
Cisl and Uil for having chosen safety and health in the
workplace as the theme of a united May Day.
Premier Giorgia Meloni said her government will present a
package of measures to boost workplace health and safety for May
Day as Italy continues to be dogged by a high number of
labour-related deaths.
"We are working on something extremely important for workers,
namely their safety, in the run-up to May Day," Meloni said in
an interview published in Tuesday's Corriere della Sera.
"We are thinking about concrete interventions for safety at
work, because it is unacceptable that every day is punctuated by
deaths and injuries".
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