Worker falls to death after being hit by crane

A worker fell to his death after
being hit by a crane Tuesday amid a spate of fatal workplace
accidents in Italy that has seen 125 deaths this year and 1,000
last and was condemned by President Sergio Mattarella in a May
Day speech earlier in the year.

   
The worker died Tuesday morning in Fiume Veneto (Pordenone).

   
The victim was working from a truck with a crane when he was hit
by the same forks with which he was lifting materials.

   
The machinery hurled him to the ground from a height of several
metres. Death occurred instantly.

   
Every workplace accident death is unacceptable, President Sergio
Mattarella said in a speech in Calabria marking Wednesday's
Labour Day holiday on Tuesday.

   
"We cannot accept the continuous trickle of deaths, caused by
carelessness, by recklessness, by risks that should not have
been taken," said the president on the spate that included seven
workers killed in a hydro power plant blast near Bologna earlier
this month.

   
"One thousand deaths at work in a year represents an
unimaginable tragedy.

   
"Every one of these is unacceptable".

   

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