Another death at work, the seventh in four days across the country. This time the victim was a worker who was just 20 years old or a little more, of foreign origins, overwhelmed and killed by the compactor with which he was engaged in some road maintenance work in the countryside of Valtopina, a small town in the province of Perugia. How and why it happened will be revealed as usual by the investigations carried out by the Carabinieri and the specialized personnel of the Local Health Authority. The fact is that all the help was in vain. Also the one from 118 with the Nibbio helicopter rescue.
The work had started just a day ago and involved a dirt road near an embankment. Where did the vehicle driven by the young man end up. This brings the number of worker deaths in four days across the country to seven. In addition to the young man who died in Umbria, there are four laborers who were reaching the fields in Canicattì, a worker in Baveno and a worker in Brindisi. "He was just twenty years old, an age in which work should represent the beginning of a journey, the possibility of making plans, building a future" underlined Feneal Uil, Filca Cisl and Fillea Cgil Umbria. "We cannot resign ourselves to considering these tragedies an inevitable price of work. At twenty you must be able to build your own future, not die while working to build that of others" they underline.
"Immense pain and profound dismay" from the president of the Umbria Region Stefania Proietti according to whom "it is heartbreaking to think that such a young life could be broken while he is doing his job". "The loss of a twenty-year-old boy is a serious wound for all of us - he underlines -, which strikes the heart of the entire community. We cannot resign ourselves to considering these tragedies as an inevitability: the right to safe and dignified work must remain an absolute and mandatory priority. We must continue the incessant and unanimous commitment of all the institutions, the social partners and the productive fabric to strengthen the culture of prevention". "Events like this seriously affect the entire community" recalled the prefect of Perugia Paolo Canaparo. "We must ensure effective controls - he urged - and at the same time commit ourselves to prevention and training, with particular attention to young workers".
Serious 56-year-old worker in Oristano falls from scaffolding and hits his head
Accident at work this morning in Oristano, where a 56-year-old worker fell from scaffolding and was transported to hospital under code red. The dynamics of the accident are not yet clear, the Carabinieri and Spresal specialists intervened on site and are dealing with the findings and reconstruction of the accident. The fall occurred in via Cagliari. The worker was carrying out renovation work on a building when he lost his balance and fell from scaffolding. A flight of about three meters and then the impact on the ground. The worker was immediately helped by colleagues. First an ambulance from 118 arrived on site and then the air ambulance. When doctors arrived on site, the 56-year-old was conscious. The doctors stabilized him and transported him to the Brotzu hospital in Cagliari due to a severe head injury.
Crushed by machinery on construction site, serious worker in Trieste
A 30-year-old worker was seriously injured in an industrial accident that occurred today, around 2 pm, on a Bonghi scale construction site in Trieste. The man would have been crushed by a work machine, suffering a rather serious injury to his leg. His life was not in danger but he was nevertheless rushed to Cattinara hospital. On site, together with the health personnel sent by the Sores Fvg operations center, the firefighters and the police intervened, together with the inspectors from Asugi, the Giuliano Isontina university health company, in charge of the investigations to reconstruct the dynamics of the accident and verify compliance with the safety regulations in the workplace.
