Worker, 58, dies in workplace accident

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 9 - A 58-year-old Italian worker dies in a workplace accident near Vercelli on Monday, the latest in a long spate of accidental workplace deaths in Italy.
    The man, a crane operator, was violently struck by a part of the compost pit where he was working as an external employee for a waste management company at Santhià, and was trapped in the smashed vehicle.
    He was coptered to a Turin hospital but died shortly after his arrival there, due to a severe head trauma and other major injuries.
    The accident took place at the Forsu waste processing plant.
    An autopsy has been ordered. (ANSA).