Worker dies after a fall in Caivano: investigation into illegal work

The hypothesis of an accident at work is strengthened in relation to the death of Salvatore Calignano, the 61-year-old construction worker who died yesterday at the hospital del Mare in Naples after being hospitalized the day before for serious polytrauma injuries. The injured man had been rescued in an isolated area of ​​Caivano, in via Fossa del Lupo, after a call to 118. At 1pm on Friday, according to what the man's wife told his lawyer, Francesco Petruzzi, Salvatore was working on the roof of a warehouse, in Caivano, in the province of Naples. Furthermore, the Calignanos' car was found there.

Also according to the woman, Salvatore was carrying out "under the table" work on the roof of the warehouse, to lay an insulating sheath. The same construction worker reported to the 118 paramedics who had helped him on the street, before losing consciousness, that he had hurt himself by falling from a ladder. The Prosecutor's Office of North Naples, which entrusted the Carabinieri with the investigation into what appears to be yet another death at work, has ordered the autopsy. The 61-year-old's cell phone was also seized. Investigations are underway, among other things, to trace the identity of those who asked for help on 118.

"If it's true that they abandoned him on the street, I want justice for my husband, he didn't deserve to be treated like that." Speaking is Carmela, 56 years old, wife of Salvatore Calignano, the construction worker who died yesterday in hospital after being found seriously injured by 118 in an isolated street in Caivano last Friday around 3pm. The woman, mother of two daughters aged 36 and 32 years old by Salvatore, today entrusted herself to the lawyer to whom she reported that she had received a phone call on Friday at 1pm in which her husband told her that he was carrying out maintenance work on the roof of a warehouse.

CGIL Naples and Campania: 'Ready to form a civil party. The government should establish a special prosecutor's office for crimes at work'

"The dignity of people has been canceled to the point of cruelty. Today we feel a mixture of anger and pain for yet another broken life of another worker tragically torn from his family." Thus the general secretary of CGIL Napoli and Campania Nicola Ricci, commenting on the death of the worker. "Although at this stage we do not yet know all the implications of the matter - continued Ricci - we announce from now on that we will be a civil party in the future trial. We owe it to the victim and his loved ones, so that those responsible are identified and the individual responsibilities ascertained without discounts. If the first news is confirmed, we are faced with unacceptable criminal aggravations: illegal work, evasion of the laws and total absence of minimum safety guarantees."

"The Government - concludes the general secretary of the CGIL Naples and Campania - continues to not understand that we are no longer faced with fatalities, but in the field of criminal law and with real crimes. For this reason, we urgently and exceptionally ask for a law decree that establishes a special prosecutor's office dedicated to workplace safety crimes. There is no more time for postponements: safety - he concluded - must become the country's absolute priority."