Italian workplace accident deaths
actually fell 10.7% to 1,090 last year despite media and union
reports of a rising toll, workplace accident insurance agency
INAIL reported Tuesday.
But all accidents rose by 25.7% to 687,773, INAIL said.
And the fall in deaths was largely linked to a decrease in COVID
related fatalities, the agency said.
There was also an increase in reported occupational diseases,
which were 60,774 (+9.9%).
INAIL said the increase in accident reports overall was "due in
part to the higher number of reports from Covid-19 and partly to
the growth in traditional accidents, while the decrease in
fatalities was "due to the significantly lower weight of
infectious deaths, which is counterbalanced, however, by a
concomitant increase in fatalities in transit."
The perceive spate of accidental deaths in the workplace has
spurred government action but has continued unabated.
Trade unions say it has now reached one a day.
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