60-year-old worker electrocuted in Taranto

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 9 - A 60-year-old worker from San Marzano near Taranto was electrocuted while concrete was being poured to cover some pipes at the construction site of the new superhighway that will connect Taranto to Avetrana in northern Puglia on Tuesday, the latest in a spate of workplace accident deaths in Italy.
    According to an initial reconstruction, the upper part of the man's vehicle, from which the cement was pouring, touched the high voltage overhead cables, causing the man's death.
    The man died instantly.
    Trade unions have protested at the high rate of accidental workplace deaths and successive governments have taken action.
    (ANSA).