Two workers died in a nitrogen deposit at the headquarters of the Humanitas hospital in Pieve Emanuele in the Milan area. This was reported by the firefighters who are on the spot together with the 118 health workers, the Carabinieri and the local police, the judicial police and an ATS doctor. The lawsuits are being investigated, but at a first evaluation it seems that the two workers, employed by an external company, died of frostbite burns. The two workers aged 42 and 46 had arrived in a van at Humanitas and were carrying out a supply of liquid nitrogen when a leak hit them, causing freeze burns. The prosecutor on duty Francesca Gentilini was informed of the deaths, who immediately alerted the environment, health, safety, work department, led by the adjunct Tiziana Siciliano. Department investigating with the hypothesis of manslaughter.
According to the latest Inail data available, i.e. those of the end of August, the reports of accidents at work presented to the Institute between January and July were 312,762 (+ 8.3% compared to the same period in 2020), 677 of which with a fatal outcome (-5.4%). The number of professional-related pathologies reported increased, reaching 33,865 (+ 34.4%). The monthly data are strongly influenced by the Coronavirus emergency.
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Injuries
The reports of accidents at work submitted to Inail by July amounted to 312,762, almost 24 thousand more (+ 8.3%) compared to the 288,873 of the first seven months of 2020, a summary of a decrease in complaints observed in the January-March quarter ( -10%) and an increase in the period April-July (+ 29%) in the comparison between the two years. The data collected at 31 July of each year show in the first seven months of 2021 a national increase in accidents while traveling , in the round trip between home and workplace (+ 18.9%, from 33,204 to 39,480 cases), which decreased by 33% in the first two months of this year and increased by 66% in the period March-July (thanks to the massive use of smart working last year, starting from the month of March), and an increase of 6.9% (from 255,669 to 273,282) of those occurred during work, which fell by 10% in the first quarter of this year and increased by 25% in the April-July quarter. The number of 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% in the State Account (from 24,577 to 31,813). Generalized increases are observed in almost all production sectors except, in particular, in the health and social assistance sector, which in the first seven months of this year presents a 34.4% reduction in accidents occurring at work compared to the same period of 2020.
The fatal cases
The reports of accidents at work with a fatal outcome presented to the Institute by the month of July were 677, 39 less than the 716 registered in the first seven months of 2020 (-5.4%). However, the comparison between 2020 and 2021 requires caution, as the data of the deadly reports of the monthly open data, more than those of the reports as a whole, are provisional and strongly influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic, with the result of not counting a significant number of “late” fatal reports of contagion, in particular relating to the month of March 2020. The data show for the first seven months of this year an increase only in cases occurring in progress, from 113 to 134 (+18 , 6%), while those at work were 60 fewer (from 630 to 543, -10.0%). The Industry and Services management is the only one to register a negative sign (-10.3%, from 630 to 565 fatal complaints), as opposed to agriculture, which passes from 55 to 76 complaints, and the State account (from 31 to 36). The territorial analysis shows an increase in the South (from 141 to 192 fatal cases), in the North-East (from 136 to 147) and in the Center (from 128 to 129). The number of deaths, on the other hand, is decreasing in the North-West (from 265 to 169) and in the Islands (from 46 to 40).