Three deaths at work within hours. It is the tragic outcome of the day today, Wednesday 29 September. Balance that confirms the alarm about the deaths among workers, after only yesterday two workers were frozen to death in a Humanitas warehouse in Pieve Emanuele, in the province of Milan.
Worker run over on the A14
The first accident occurred on the A14 Bologna-Taranto motorway, in the section between Poggio Imperiale and San Severo, in the direction of Bari: an employee of an external maintenance company, at km 528, lost his life after being hit by a heavy vehicle during the installation phase of a correctly pre-reported construction site.
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The shelter collapses in the Brindisi area
The second death always occurred in Puglia. A 41-year-old worker died in Mesagne, in the province of Brindisi, while working near a scaffolding of a balcony undergoing renovation. It happened around 12.30. The local police, firefighters, carabinieri and Spesal personnel intervened on the spot. According to initial information, the man was overwhelmed by the collapse of the attic and a shelter.
He falls from scaffolding in Rome
A few hours after the accident in the province of Brindisi, a 47-year-old man died falling from a scaffolding on the 11th floor of a building, in Viale America in the Eur area in Rome.
Draghi: “Deaths at work are a constant massacre”
The news of the three fatal injuries was also commented by Prime Minister Mario Draghi during the press conference on Nadef. The premier listed “some of the ways we plan to intervene”. First of all, he said: “more severe and immediate penalties” and then “collaboration within the factory and the company for the early identification of weaknesses in terms of safety in the workplace”. The premier also defined that of the deaths at work “a continuous massacre”.