In an accident in a company that produces flours for feed, Di.Gi.MA of Villanterio, in the Pavia area, two workers aged 50 and 51 died of asphyxiation. The exact causes of death are being ascertained by the judiciary, but according to union sources the two were working near a tank where animal processing waste was contained, from which flours are obtained to produce feed.
Suddenly one of the two workers felt ill and the colleague who was by his side tried to help him, but he lost consciousness in turn. At the origin of the illness could be the fact that the two workers breathed ammonia or perhaps another poisonous gas that would not have been sucked from the hood inside the tank.
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Inail technicians also intervened at the scene of the accident, in addition to the carabinieri, the Nbcr nucleus from Milan, various fire brigade teams and the inspectors of Ats Pavia. Meanwhile, the reports of accidents at work presented to the Institute between January and April were 171,870 (-0.3% compared to the same period in 2020), 306 of which with a fatal outcome (+ 9.3%). The number of professional-related pathologies reported on the rise, amounting to 18,629 (+ 26.1%).
The monthly data are still strongly influenced by the Coronavirus emergency, but after the tragic accident in Pavia, the unions raise the alarm. “We are already 306 dead in the first 4 months of 2021. It is a carnage that must make us reflect on the responsibilities and urgent initiatives to be taken by institutions and companies”, says the general secretary of the CISL, Luigi Sbarra. «You cannot die while working. We shouted it again this morning in Piazza Montecitorio, we will continue to shout it until massacres like the one today at the Digima in Villanterio (Pavia), where two workers died, never happen again ”, writes the CGIL. «It is necessary to ensure that the safety legislation, which is among the most advanced in Europe, is applied“ no ifs and buts ”; we need to hire many new inspectors to ensure controls. This is the appeal that we address to the Draghi government in this dramatic moment which, unfortunately, is now repeated every day, ”adds the secretary general of Uila, Stefano Mantegazza.
Onofrio Rota, secretary general of Fai Cisl, adds that “in the face of the escalation of accidents and deaths at work, indignation is not enough, concrete interventions and resources are needed to carry out more inspections and prevention, and now that the way out of the pandemic we can and must return to all workplaces to provide training and information, because only in this way will we be able to spread a real culture of safety in the workplace ».