A real massacre: in 36 hours 10 workers die in the workplace. The trail of blood that crosses Italian construction sites and factories does not stop, yesterday six people died, today death struck three more workers.
Under accusation are safety on construction sites and in factories, the lack of controls and inspectors, but also the system of contracts and subcontracts to companies that hire unqualified or untrained personnel.
Today a new massacre, three dead already in the last 12 hours.
Rome Eur: falls from a scaffolding of a construction site on the eleventh floor.
The latest accident in chronological order in Rome where a worker died falling from a scaffolding in a construction site in Viale America all'Eur, at number 311. On site the agents of the Esposizione police station. From a very initial reconstruction by the police, the man, a 47 year old, fell from the scaffolding on the eleventh floor. Rescue efforts were useless. The accident occurred shortly after lunchtime.
Brindisi: a floor collapses, a 42-year-old bricklayer dies in Mesagne
Benito Branca, died while he was renovating a building in Mesagne in the province of Brindisi.
The man was on the sidewalk when the scaffolding, the balcony and part of the attic collapsed, crushing him with debris. According to an initial reconstruction of the event, around 12:XNUMX, while maintenance work was underway on the building, the structure collapsed. In a few moments, a pile of debris was created: those present began to dig with their hands.
San Severo in the province of Foggia: Caserta worker killed by a truck on the A14.
He was arranging signs to start construction work when he was hit and killed by a truck. Pietro Vittoria, 47 years old, originally from Maddaloni, died this morning along the A14 motorway towards Bari, at the San Severo toll booth in the province of Foggia.
For the victim, who worked for the company Edil San Felice di Nola, in the province of Naples, there was no escape: the aid provided was useless. With him, two other colleagues were involved in the accident, one suffering minor injuries and the other remaining unharmed. The truck driver stopped immediately after the impact. This morning's death is the second in two weeks on Italian highways among those employed in signaling on highways. The Democratic Party deputy Davide Gariglio asked for "clarity on the system of contracts practiced by highway concessionaires to select the companies or cooperatives to which to entrust the signage and consequently on the real safety measures guaranteed to these workers".
Trentino Alto Adige: farmer crushed to death by tractor.
In Rifiano, in Val Passiria, in the Merano area, a farmer of about 50 years old was crushed to death by the tractor he was driving. The man was working in an orchard near the Rifiano sports field when the vehicle suddenly overturned. The worker was trapped under the tractor and, due to the serious injuries he suffered, died instantly. The emergency doctor, volunteer firefighters and the Carabinieri were at the scene of the accident.
In Italy the massacre of workers: on September 28, 2021, six deaths. Since the beginning of the year, there have been 700, up to June according to Inail data, there were 538.
The massacre does not stop: yesterday, in just one day, 6 people were killed in the workplace. From North to South: Milan, Turin, Padua, Palermo and Pisa the massacre continued. The list of 'white' victims grows longer, up to August, according to Inail data, there were 677. At the end of September there were already 700.
In Milan, two workers were found dead yesterday morning, September 28, in a liquid nitrogen warehouse at the Humanitas hospital in Rozzano, in the Milan area. The two, Singh Jagdeep, 42, Indian nationality, resident in Piancogno, and Emanuele Zanin, 46, from Brescia, employees of the Bergamo-based haulage firm Pe, had arrived with a tanker truck to fill a tank in the hospital's Research Campus, but something went wrong. The two were hit by a gas leak while they were refilling a tank of liquid nitrogen, used in the university laboratories and to power the fire-fighting system, for reasons still being investigated.
In Turin, a worker died after falling from scaffolding in Nichelino, in the hinterland. The accident in via XXV Aprile, the man fell from a height of about two meters.
In Padova A worker from the Lavor Metal company in Loreggia, in the province of Padua, died. He was working on scaffolding at a height of 5 meters when he fell, which later proved fatal.
In Capaci, in the province of Palermo, also yesterday, the 52 year old truck driver died, Joseph Constantine, hit by a truck while making a delivery
In the province of Pisa the agricultural entrepreneur, Massimiliano Malfatti, 54 years old, was beheaded by a thresher. The man was found dead in the evening in Pontasserchio in via Pasteur, in the municipality of San Giuliano Terme.
The last nine 'fallen' at work in chronological order, workers killed on the job. A year marred by accidents.
On September 18, a 48-year-old worker, Giuseppe Siino, originally from Palermo, died from injuries sustained in an accident at the Alma Spa plant in Campi Bisenzio in the province of Florence, a textile company specializing in the production of carpets. The man was crushed by a roller of a machine.
On September 16, a 59-year-old worker lost his life in Marano, in the province of Naples. While he was painting the facade of a villa, he fell from the 4-meter scaffolding, hitting his head on the ground. The 59-year-old died instantly and was not wearing a protective helmet. He was with a colleague, both apparently 'in black'.
And on the same day, but in Genoa, a 54-year-old man who was working on a building under renovation also died after falling from scaffolding.
On September 21, Giovanni Delpero, 58 years old, who had been working on the cable car that leads to the Presena glacier for 30 years, died in Trentino.
On September 19, a 33-year-old man was crushed by a tree he was cutting down on a farm in Ghizzano, in the province of Pisa.
Three victims in one day, September 8. The first in Naples, a 59-year-old who died in the subway construction site; the second in Pietrasanta, in the province of Lucca, a 54-year-old who was crushed by two slabs of marble; the third in Castiglion Fiorentino (Arezzo), a 73-year-old who fell from a height of about 6 meters from a tree on a farm.
The death of Luana D'Orazio had brought the spotlight back on workplace accidents, the 22-year-old mother crushed by machinery on May 3 while working in a textile company in Montemurlo, in the province of Prato.
According to the expert reports ordered by the prosecution, the warping machine had been tampered with to speed up production.
In Italy people die every day at work. Only in the first In the six months of this year, Inail recorded 538 victims, 3 per day. Already on April 29, in just a few hours, a massacre had occurred: a beam had collapsed in the Amazon warehouse in Alessandria, hitting six people and causing one death and five injuries, while in the port of Taranto a 49-year-old crane operator had lost his life, falling onto the dock, and in Montebelluna (Treviso) a 23-year-old worker had been hit by scaffolding, dying instantly.
On May 6, in Pagazzano, in the Bergamo area, a 46-year-old man was crushed by a concrete slab that broke away from the crane he was operating. The next day, tragedy struck in Busto Arsizio, in the province of Varese. Cristian Martinelli, 49, lost his life, crushed by a mechanical lathe while he was working in a plastics extrusion company.
On May 18, Armando Rocco Mita, a farmer from San Mauro Forte in the province of Matera, lost his life when he was run over by a tractor. At the same time, in Croara di Gazzola, in the province of Piacenza, a worker of Ukrainian origin was crushed by a steel gate he was assembling on a construction site and came loose from its guides.
The two deaths are in addition to that of Sergio Persico, 53, from Orio al Serio, a forklift driver who died on May 17 in Spirano.
On May 6, the person who lost his life was Maurizio Gritti, 46 years old, from Calcinate, owner of a construction company, crushed by a reinforced concrete slab he was positioning.
Just two days later, another worker from San Paolo d'Argon, in the province of Bergamo, lost his life on a construction site in Tradate (Varese). Marco Oldrati, this is the name of the craftsman, was 52 years old and fell from a scaffolding from about 4 meters high.
On May 28, in a food company in the Pavia area, Digima di Villanterio, which deals with the collection and processing of slaughterhouse by-products, a steam pipe containing ammonia broke, overwhelming two workers who lost their lives.
Two days later, on May 30, a serious accident at work in a foundry in Torbole di Casaglia, in the Brescia area, cost the life of a 55-year-old worker, who died while he was cleaning a duct. On August 3, Laila El Harim, a 41-year-old from the province of Modena, lost her life: she got stuck in the die-cutting machine of the Bombonette company in Camposanto.
Two days later, on August 5, a 53-year-old worker from Campania died on a construction site on the A15 motorway near Parma, while on August 9 another 47-year-old worker in San Giovanni Rotondo, in the Foggia area, was crushed by a slab of concrete, and on August 10 a 36-year-old worker fell from a height of about 8 metres in San Paolo d'Argon, in the Bergamo area.
An endless massacre that has already claimed 3 victims today.
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