Investigation into the death of the Gragnano worker at the Naples metro construction site

Gragnano. The dynamics of the workplace accident that caused the death of Luigi Manfuso, the fifty-nine-year-old worker originally from Gragnano, found in the ditch of the train platform in the construction site of the Tribunale Station, on the Centro Direzionale – Capodichino section of Line 1 of the Naples Metro, are still being examined by investigators.

It was some of his colleagues who, worried about Manfuso's absence, found him and took him to the hospital where the health workers confirmed his death. A part of the construction site where the tragedy occurred has been placed under sequestration by the investigators. "The municipal administration shares with deep emotion the grief of the family, friends and work colleagues of Luigi Manfuso, who died while he was at work on a construction site of the Metro".

Thus in a note from Palazzo San Giacomo which states that the worker from Gragnano, married and father of two children, "is yet another victim of an unjust and absurd death, on a day that records another tragic accident at work in Tuscany, and which reiterates the absolute urgency of a labor legislation increasingly focused on the protection and safety of the workplace". From January 1 to today, there have been 43 deaths at work in Campania.

Fillea Cgil Campania is keeping the tragic count. In Naples, since the beginning of the year, there have been 14 victims at work, followed by Caserta (11), Salerno (10), Avellino (7) and Benevento (1). Among the sectors most affected is construction with 14 deaths, followed by agriculture (14).