The massacre at work does not stop. Six died in 48 hours. After the four victims on Tuesday, two other workers died on Wednesday: one in the South, in the Matera area and the other in the North, in the Veronese area. And the unions give a desperate cry of alarm: “In construction sites, which have increased exponentially as a result of public incentives and the bonus 110, the conditions of safety at work are dramatic.”
The Nova Siri incident
In Nova Siri (Matera), a town on the Ionian coast of Lucania, Ciro Pinto, aged 53, died. The worker, so expert to the point that everyone called him “mastro” (teacher, a very widespread dialect expression in the South) was at work early in the morning on a building site to renovate a building. For reasons, during the investigation phase, Pinto fell from a scaffolding, from a height of five meters: the resuscitation attempts carried out by the health workers of the 118 Basilicata rescue were useless. On the spot also the labor inspectors and the carabinieri who are conducting the investigations coordinated by the Procura della Repubblica of Matera. The mayor, Eugenio Lucio Stigliano, also went near the construction site – where Pinto’s colleagues remained for hours, astonished and deeply saddened by the death “of a good colleague, but above all of a good man”. «Ciro – said the mayor – was a hard worker, known and esteemed by all our small community, which is incredulous at what happened. On the day of the funeral, still to be determined – concluded Stigliano – we will proclaim city mourning ».
The case of Brenzone del Garda
Almost a thousand kilometers from Nova Siri, from Brenzone del Garda (Verona), only a few hours later, the news of the second death arrived at the day’s work. A 65-year-old worker died after falling to the ground while he was building a low wall. The man was carrying out renovations on a holiday home, owned by German citizens, between the hamlets of Magugnano and Porto, and he fell from a height of five meters, dying of the severe trauma reported. To ascertain the causes of death at work (the third in two days in the province of Verona) the carabinieri and the inspectors of the Spisal of the Ulss 9 Scaligera intervened. Again, politicians and union representatives spoke of an unacceptable massacre.
The mobilization of trade unions
For Romina Mura (Pd), president of the Labor Commission of the Chamber, “efforts have been made to put a stop to this terrible succession of victims and even more injured, but they are not yet giving the desired effects. We need to do it faster and probably even more ». The Anmil (Association of the maimed and disabled at work) underlined his “indignation”, while Fillea Cgil, Filca Cisl and Feneal Uil from Basilicata have raised the alarm for the dramatic working conditions on construction sites. And the UGL, through its secretary general, Paolo Capone, asked Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando, “to adopt as soon as possible a national plan to strengthen measures regarding safety at work”.