From North to South, the toll of accidents at work shows three deaths. The umpteenth difficult day at work opened with a fatal accident in the Naples metro construction site where a 59-year-old man, an employee of the company that is taking care of the works, died in the new section between Capodichino and the business center. According to the first reconstructions, he was found by his colleagues in the ditch of the train platform, but died shortly after in hospital. To give the news to the trade unions of the city. The wake of a wife and two children. A few hours later, a 73-year-old man died of his injuries when he fell from a tree, from a height of about 6 meters, while he was working on a farm in Castiglion Fiorentino, in the province of Arezzo. while in Pietrasanta a worker died and another was slightly injured. The victim was 44 years old. From a first reconstruction, the two workers were cleaning freshly cut marble slabs when the retainers gave way. The 44-year-old was overwhelmed and died instantly, while the other worker managed to move away and was slightly injured.
The trend of the first seven months
The Coronavirus emergency still weighs on the data that tell the accidents and occupational diseases collected by Inail, which prevents having a stable monthly picture of deaths from Covid, due to the late nature of the reports. Having said that, the first seven months of this year, in terms of white deaths, return a less dramatic picture than in 2020: there is in fact an overall increase in accident reports, a decrease in fatal ones and a rise in occupational diseases. . Taking the numbers, the reports of accidents at work presented to the Institute between January and July were 312,762, up by + 8.3%, compared to the same period in 2020. Those with a fatal outcome were 677, down by 5.4%: to determine this result were Industry and services, the only management in decline which marked more than minus 10%. On the other hand, white deaths in agriculture and in the state are on the rise. Finally, occupational pathologies rose: there were 33,865, up by 34.4%. Pathologies of the osteo-muscular system and of the connective tissue, of the nervous system and of the ear continue to represent, even in the first seven months of 2021, the first three occupational diseases reported, followed by those of the respiratory system and tumors.
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The fatal cases
Injuries with fatal outcome in the first seven months of the year were 677, 39 less than the 716 in 2020. However, the comparison between the two years requires great caution, as mentioned. The increase in white deaths concerned accidents while traveling, which went from 113 to 134, with an increase of 18.6%. The deaths at work were instead 60 fewer and went from 630 to 543, with a decrease of 10%. In particular, the only management in decline was recorded for industry and services, where white deaths went from 630 to 565, down by 10.3%. On the other hand, there was an increase for agriculture, which went from 55 to 76 complaints, and for the state, from 31 to 36.
Accident reports
Overall, the reports of accidents at work submitted to Inail by July were almost 24 thousand more than the 288,873 of the first seven months of 2020. The data show an increase in accidents while traveling, which increased by 18.9%. Those occurring during work increased by 6.9%. Both closures and smart working weigh on these data. Taking the numbers, reported work accidents increased by 6.4% in the Industry and services management, from 249,499 cases in 2020 to 265,499 in 2021, by 4.4% in agriculture (from 14,797 to 15,450) and by 29, 4% among the state (from 24,577 to 31,813).