Four more workplace deaths in Italy
Baku, November 17, AZERTAC
Monday was another black day for accidents at work, with four victims: two in Pallagorio, in the province of Crotone; the others in Ceccano (Frosinone) and Pozzallo (Ragusa) , according to ANSA.
The two dead in the Crotone area are a 78-year-old man, Francesco Lamazza, and a worker of Pakistani nationality whose identity and age are not known at the moment.
Lamazza was driving a tractor and was traveling along an internal road to reach his land to work on the olive harvest.
The Pakistani man who died and another worker of the same nationality who was seriously injured and was taken by air ambulance to the Catanzaro hospital, where he was admitted with a reserved prognosis, were traveling in the same vehicle.
The tractor, in a rural area between Pallagorio and Casabona, ended up, for reasons still being ascertained, in a ravine, falling for over one hundred metres.
Lamazza died instantly, while one of the two Pakistanis who were with him was crushed under the tractor, dying shortly after.
The carabinieri of the Cirò Marina Company went to the scene, together with the firefighters and the 118 personnel.
The rescue operations proved complicated due to the difficulty in reaching the place where the tractor had ended up.
When the rescuers reached the vehicle, they confirmed Lamazza's death, while the two workers appeared in serious conditions.
One of the two died a short time later, while the other, who ended up under the tractor, suffered very serious injuries.
According to what emerged from the Carabinieri's findings, the tractor fell into the ravine due to a collapse that occurred along the country road that the three were traveling on.
The military investigations, however, continue, under the directives of the Crotone Public Prosecutor's Office, to reconstruct the dynamics of the accident in every detail.
The person who died in Ceccano is a 66-year-old construction worker who fell from the scaffolding that had been set up for the renovation of the facade of a building in the historic center of the town.
The Carabinieri, the local police and the 118 personnel intervened on the spot and attempted in vain to resuscitate the worker, also alerting an air ambulance.
The staff of the Workplace Prevention and Safety Service of the Frosinone Local Health Authority carried out checks to verify compliance with accident prevention regulations and whether the worker died as a result of the impact or whether he felt ill and then fell.
The fourth victim of this dramatic sequence of workplace accidents is a 36-year-old Albanian worker on a construction site in Pozzallo, in the Ragusa area, while another was not seriously injured.
According to an initial reconstruction, the two workers, who were working on the construction of a floor in a building under construction, were hit by the arm of a cement mixer used for pouring concrete which suddenly gave way, hitting the victim directly and grazing the person who was injured.
There was another serious accident in Civitella del Tronto, in the province of Teramo, where two workers were injured in an industrial accident that occurred inside a PET container production company.
The two, according to an initial reconstruction, were engaged in maintenance work on a machine when they were hit by a jet of liquid plastic at very high temperatures.
A 59-year-old was injured on the fingers of one hand, the other worker, a 22-year-old, was hit in the face and in particular in one eye, suffering very serious burns.
The four fatalities are the latest in a long spate of accidental workplace deaths in Italy.
On November 4 a 66-year-old worker died after being trapped for 11 hours under the rubble after after a section of Rome's medieval Torre dei Conti, near the Forum, collapsed.
Workplace deaths are a major problem in Italy and Premier Giorgia Meloni's government has said boosting health and safety is a priority.
Last month the cabinet launched a digital badge for contractors and sub-contractors on construction sites, aimed at improving safety.
Work-related deaths in Italy rose by one last year to 1,202, workplace accident and occupation illness insurance agency INAIL said in its annual report in July.
Trade unions say an average three workers a day die in workplace accidents in Italy.
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