A 48-year-old construction worker was
crushed to death by a metal panel near Treviso on Wednesday.
The man, from Pieve del Grappa, was hit by the panel which
crushed his skull at a building site at Caerano San Marco, local
sources said.
The man died instantly, sources said.
An autopsy has been ordered.
It was the third workplace accident death in Italy in a day, as
a recent spate of such deaths continued.
A 58-year-old Italian warehouse worker died of her injuries in
hospital Wednesday after being crushed by a pallet in the
plastic stamping firm where she works near Florence on September
2.
And a A 54-year-old Italian factory worker died in a fall from a
catwalk at a wood panelling firm near Alessandria on Tuesday
night.
Italy is enduring a spate of workplace deaths which have roused
union protests and spurred government action.
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