Construction worker dead after alleged workplace accident in Caivano, wife calls for justice

He was rescued on Friday when he lay with serious injuries in an isolated street on the outskirts of Caivano, the following day he died in hospital. The case of Salvatore Calignano, a 61-year-old construction worker, is increasingly taking on the contours of yet another accident at work, aggravated by the fact that the man, instead of receiving immediate assistance, was transported off the construction site where he apparently fell from a ladder, in an attempt to hide responsibility.

"I want justice for my husband, he didn't deserve to be treated like this," Carmela, the victim's wife, says through tears. The Calignano family lives in Orta di Atella (Caserta) and the man left the house on Friday morning: in September he had received unemployment benefits, on October 1st he had a work commitment and around 1pm he called his wife telling her that he was busy on the roof of an industrial warehouse in Caivano (Naples) installing an insulating sheath. Around 3pm an anonymous person contacted 118 reporting an injured person in via Fossa del Lupo, a peripheral area of ​​Caivano: the rescuers found Salvatore in serious condition due to multiple trauma injuries, compatible with an impact from a significant height, and the man, before losing consciousness, told them that he had fallen from a ladder.

Calignano was first admitted to the Giugliano hospital, then transferred to the Mare hospital in Naples where, however, he died yesterday. The Carabinieri are investigating the case, coordinated by the Naples North prosecutor's office: the investigations immediately focused on the work accident, and the military tracked down a company in Caivano where Salvatore would have been hired regularly on Thursday 1st October, the day before the fall. A circumstance of which the wife denied being aware. Calignano was married with two daughters: the family chose to be represented by the lawyer Francesco Petruzzi. "The circumstance of the hiring immediately before the tragic event - underlines the lawyer - appears strange to us to say the least. The Carabinieri will be the ones to clarify. At the moment, we have serious doubts about this hiring".

The CGIL Campania announces that it intends to become a civil party in any future trial. The group leader of the Democratic Party in the Labor Committee in the Chamber, Arturo Scotto, insists: "Calignano would have been abandoned like a dying dog on a secondary road. It is not the first time this has happened. It is not a civilized country where the lives of those who work count for nothing. We ask the judiciary and the police to act quickly to obtain the truth".