Man falls six metres to death on the job near Bergamo

Victim was owner of a paving company

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Jan 07 2025
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Man falls six metres to death

A 55-year-old Italian man fell six metres to his death while on the job in the firm near Bergamo Tuesday, in the latest in a wave of fatal workplace accidents in Italy.
    The man, a construction entrepreneur died after falling from the buckets of a forklift used to reach a wall he was cleaning in the courtyard of a company.
    The man, who lived in Clusone and was the owner of a road paving company, died on impact.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni recently announced the recruitment of 1,600 new labour inspectors, amid the alarm about the spate of workplace deaths.
    National labour accidents and occupational illness agency INAIL said recently that 860 fatal work-related accidents were reported to it in the first 10 months of 2024, a rise of 2.5% on the equivalent period in 2023.
    Concern over workplace safety was heightened by the June death of Satnam Singh, an off-the-books 31-year-old Indian farm labourer who bled out after being dumped outside his hut with an arm severed by wrapping machinery placed beside him on a fruit picking box at Latina south of Rome.
    Five men died after inhaling toxic gas in a sewer network near Palermo in May, and seven died in a hydro power plant blast near Bologna in April.
    The latest multiple tragedy came last month when five men were killed by a blast at an Eni fuels depot near Florence.
    Meanwhile there has been a steady stream of almost daily individual deaths.