A 46-year-old worker was crushed to
death near Bergamo Thursday in the third workplace accident in
Italy this week, further raising calls to increase safety at
work.
The man died after a load fell on him at Pagazzano.
Emergency teams rushed to the scene but were unable to do
anything for him.
An autopsy has been ordered.
A 49-year-old factory worker was crushed to death by a huge
industrial lathe Wednesday in a factory in Busto Arsizio north
of Milan as Italy confronts a rash of workplace deaths after a
22-year-old mother of a five-year-old boy endured a similar fate
in a factory near Prato in Tuscany on Monday.
The man,Cristian Martinelli, was rushed to hospital in critical
condition but doctors were unable to save his life.
Martinelli's wife Sara said he had been complaining that were
not enough workers in his section of the plant.
Prosecutors in Prato have put two people under investigation in
relation to the death of the 22-year-old Italian mother in the
factory accident on Monday.
The factory owner and the maintenance chief have been placed
under investigation for allegedly removing the protective screen
around the machine she was killed by, judicial sources said.
Luana D'Orazio was snagged by the gears of a textile machine and
crushed to death at a plant at Oste di Montemurlo near Prato. An
autopsy on her body will be carried out on Saturday in a Pistoia
hospital, while her funeral will take place near Pistoia on
Tuesday.
Plant owner Luana Coppini said Wednesday they would help Luana's
son. The boy's grandmother said she had told him her mother was
not coming back.
The case, and others like it, have spurred calls for moves to
raise workplace safety. Maurizio Landini, leader of Italy's
biggest and most leftwing trade union federation CGIL, said
Wednesday: "one worker a day is dying; they have to do something
about it".
Florence's centre-left Mayor Dario Nardella said "there was not
a single worker who died at the building site for the cupola of
the Florence Duomo. We're talking about 700 years ago, and Italy
today is the Middle Ages of Europe if you look at workplace
deaths. It's no longer tolerable, this situation. They must
intervene in a concrete and systematic way, especially in
certain sectors like the textile sector, where we're stuck at 50
years ago".
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