A worker fell to his death after
the roof of the building he was working at Opera outside Milan
on gave way on Friday, the 15th workplace accident fatality in
Italy in the last four days.
Industrial employers federation Confindustria chief Carlo Bonomi
said "they can't keep on dying at work, prevention is needed".
A farmer was crushed to death when his tractor overturned in
Abruzzo on Thursday, the 14th death in three days.
Gabriele Grosso, 72, was killed instantly at Mosciano
Sant'Angelo near Teramo.
Earlier, another farmer working his hazelnut plot at Roddi near
Cuneo met the same fate.
Also Thursday, a 56-year-old construction worker died in a
10-metre fall from scaffolding on the roof of a building near
Reggio Emilia
The accident happened in the hamlet of Borzano, part of the town
of Albinea.
A man was crushed to death by a truck near Verona Wednesday
night, the 11th workplace death in Italy in two days, officials
said Wednesday.
The man died instantly at Cologna Veneta, they said.
Five men were killed on the job in Italy on Wednesday after six
on Tuesday.
Job death data on Thursday belied the recent spate of
workplace-accident deaths that Premier Mario Draghi has dubbed a
massacre.
The glut of deaths Tuesday and Wednesday spurred Draghi to
announce immediate and stiffer penalties for those flouting work
safety standards.
But workplace accident insurance agency INAIL said workplace
accident fatalities actually fell, by 6.2% to 772, in the first
eight months of the year.
However, reports of all accidents on the job rose 8.5% to
349,449 from January to August compared to the same period last
year, INAIL said.
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