A worker died in accident at a
packaging company in Perugia on Tuesday, the latest in a long
spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy.
The unnamed man died while doing maintenance work on a machine,
local sources said.
Premier Giorgia Meloni recently announced the recruitment of
1,600 new labour inspectors, amid the
alarm about the spate of workplace deaths.
National labour accidents and occupational illness agency INAIL
said recently that 860 fatal work-related accidents were
reported to it in the first 10 months of 2024, a rise of 2.5% on
the equivalent period in 2023.
Concern over workplace safety was heightened by the June death
of Satnam Singh, an off-the-books 31-year-old Indian farm
labourer who bled out after being dumped outside his hut with an
arm
severed by wrapping machinery placed beside him on a fruit
picking box at Latina south of Rome.
Five men died after inhaling toxic gas in a sewer network near
Palermo in May, and seven died in a hydro power plant blast near
Bologna in April.
The latest multiple tragedy came last month when five men were
killed by a blast at an Eni fuels depot near Florence.
Meanwhile there has been a steady stream of more than daily
individual deaths.
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