Another day massacre at workplace. Four victims: two in Pallagorio, in the province of Crotone, others in Ceccano (Frosinone) and Pozzallo (Ragusa).
TO Pallagorioin the Crotone area, it is dead Francesco Lamazza, 78 years old, and a worker from Pakistan whose identity is not yet known. They traveled with a tractor which, when traveling along the country road to reach the olive grove, is pfell into the ravine more than a hundred meters long, probably due to the collapse of the highway. A third worker, also Pakistani, was seriously injured and transferred by air ambulance to Catanzaro hospital with a guarded prognosis. The rescue operation, which was complicated by the inaccessibility of the area, involved firefighters, carabinieri and 118. The Crotone Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation.
TO Ceccanoin the province of Frosinone, a 66-year-old construction worker died fell from the scaffolding prepared for renovation of building facades in the historic center. It was not clear whether the fall was caused by disease or failure of one of the scaffolding elements. Carabinieri, local police and 118 personnel are at the scene. ASL Spresal has initiated compliance checks with accident prevention regulations.
The fourth victim was a 36-year-old Albanian worker, who died at the construction site Pozzallo (Ragusa). Based on initial reconstruction, the cement mixer arm used to pour concrete suddenly broke and hit him directly while he was working on the attic of a building under construction. A fellow crane operator was seriously injured. The 36-year-old man was transported in deplorable condition to the Maggiore-Baglieri hospital in Modica, where he died shortly afterwards. The construction site area was confiscated on orders from the Ragusa Prosecutor’s Office, which opened a case.
In Civitella del Tronto, in the Teramo area, two workers were hit by a jet of molten plastic at very high temperatures while carrying out maintenance on machines at a company that produces PET containers. A 59-year-old man suffered a finger injury, while a 22-year-old man suffered burnt very serious on the face and one eye.
The Democratic Party secretary also spoke about the Pozzallo tragedy, Elly Schleinexpressed “closeness to family members of deceased workers” and criticized the lack of control: “In Sicily last year labor inspector there were about seventy people. For a region with millions of people, it is clear we need to do more.”
