The number of fatal workplace
accident reports in Italy between January 1 and May 31 this year
is 369, 3.1% higher than last year, workplace accident insurance
agency INAIL said Friday.
The rise was also due to multiple-death incidents, it said.
Friday saw three more workplace accidents in Italy in a spate of
job fatalities that union UIL said kills more people than the
mafia.
A 21-year-old construction worker died in Sicily while another
worker fell to his death from a motorway maintenance site into
the northern Italian Adda River, and another 21-year-old, a farm
worker, was crushed to death when his tractor overturned at
Minturno near Latina south of Rome.
The latest trio of deaths are part of several several recent
workplace accidental fatalities in Italy - another two on
Tuesday.
Almost 500 people have been killed in work accidents in Italy so
far this year, the national observatory on the phenomenon said
last Friday. There were about 1,000 last year, it said.
Five men died after inhaling toxic gas in a sewer network near
Palermo last month, and seven died in a hydro power plant blast
near Bologna in April.
Eight workers were injured, five critically, in an explosion at
an aluminum plant in Bolzano last week. One has since died of
his injuries while others are said to be still fighting for
their lives from their critical burns.
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