The safety mechanisms on the 'twin'
of the textile machine that killed a 22-year-old Italian mother
last week had been manipulated, investigative sources said
Thursday after analysis by a technical consultant.
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.
She left behind a small daughter.
The case led to widespread dismay and calls for efforts to
improve work safety to be stepped up.
These have increased further after her death was followed by a
series of other fatal workplace accidents.
On Wednesday Premier Mario Draghi spoke about the case in
parliament.
After D'Orazio's death investigators seized both the machine she
was working on and an identical 'twin' machine from the plant in
order to compare them.
The machine the woman was actually working on will be examined
in the coming days.
Prosecutors in Prato have put two people under investigation in
relation to the death.
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