Job death data on Thursday belied a
recent spate of workplace-accident deaths that Premier Mario
Draghi has dubbed a massacre.
Ten workers were killed on the job in Italy on Tuesday and
Wednesday, spurring 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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