Two more victims of work in Italy, over 700 since the beginning of the year

Alessandro would have turned 43 in December; Daouda was 48. They were both at work but never returned home. The list of unrelated deaths in Italy is growing: two victims in the last 24 hours, one in Naples, the other in Campi Bisenzio, in the province of Florence. United in the tragedy but not in the application of the law on labor.

Alessandro Turiello was busy renovating a B&B in via Matteo Renato Imbriani, in the center of Naples, without any contract when this morning the slab of the balcony he was in collapsed, falling to the ground from a height of around 10 metres. Except at the last minute one of his colleagues, who saved himself by holding on to the railing. According to what was reconstructed by the firefighters, the two workers were working with the pickaxe and at a certain point the balcony overturned like a trap door, still remaining attached to the building: no eviction but access to the balconies was prohibited. For Turiello, help was useless, only the heartbreak of the family members who arrived immediately on site. The Police, coordinated by the Work and Professional Offenses section of the Naples Prosecutor's Office (prosecutor Manuela Persico, deputy prosecutor Antonio Ricci), are investigating the case together with the firefighters' checks: at the moment the crimes of manslaughter and negligent collapse are being hypothesized against the unknown, pending investigations into illegal work.

According to CGIL data, this is the 64th victim in Campania while there have been over 700 unrelated deaths in Italy since the beginning of 2026. We move to Tuscany for the second death in the workplace. Daouda Ndoye, of Senegalese origin and resident in Lucca, had a regular contract: he was employed as a worker by Autostrade per l'Italia. Last night he was on duty for normal checks on the A11 motorway when, at the Prato Est toll booth in the municipal area of ​​Campi Bisenzio, he was hit by a car driven by a 71-year-old, who stopped after the accident. The worker was in the emergency lane then, after exiting the vehicle, he was hit by the car. The president of the Tuscany Region, Eugenio Giani, asks for a check on the working conditions on night-time construction sites: "it is right to work at night, we know how much discomfort there would otherwise be during the day" along the motorway routes, but "all this - he clarifies - must take place in absolute and great safety". In the meantime, the regional secretariats Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti have proclaimed a four-hour strike for tomorrow: "a concrete and rapid change of pace cannot be postponed - they say - to strengthen prevention and regulations, guarantee constant and effective controls".