(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 13 - A 27-year-old worker died near
Siracusa Wednesday in the latest in a long spate of fatal
workplace accidents in Italy.
The young man reportedly ended up under a mechanical vehicle
while he was working on a piece of land.
It was the second workplace fatality in two days in Italy.
On Tuesday a 69-year-old male worker died after being hit by a
forklift in a paper mill in the province of Lucca
Premier Giorgia Meloni recently announced that the government
has approved the recruitment of 1,600 new labour inspectors,
amid the alarm about the spate of workplace deaths. (ANSA).