Deaths at work, Draghi: "A massacre that continues every day"

"I would like to express the government's deepest condolences, mine, for the deaths at work that yesterday and today have ravaged the scene and the psychological and economic environment of the country. The deepest closeness to family members and loved ones". Thus Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who, reading the names of the victims at work, yesterday and today, wanted to emphasize what "takes on more and more the contours of a massacre that continues every day".

"There is a need to take immediate measures, as early as next week. And then we will tackle the unresolved issues", underlined Draghi, after quoting the words of the president of Confindustria Carlo Bonomi so that "whoever is on the field immediately warns if there are any weaknesses ".

The premier remarked that "stricter and more immediate penalties, collaboration within factories for the early identification of weaknesses" are needed.

"The workers are not responsible for anything", the premier clarified, thanking the full collaboration with the trade unions and specifying that an "increase in safety conditions without expanding the responsibilities of workers" is necessary.

In the last 24 hours alone, there are four tragedies that aggravate the already very heavy death toll at work in Italy. Last in chronological order the one that saw a 47-year-old as a victim who fell from a scaffolding from the eleventh floor in Rome. Another 42-year-old bricklayer , in Brindisi, died while working on the renovation of a building: the man was on the sidewalk when the scaffolding, the balcony and part of the attic collapsed and was crushed under the rubble.

Another victim at work always in Puglia, but this time in the province of Foggia, where a 47-year-old worker who was arranging the signs for the start of work on a construction site on the A14 motorway at the San Severo tollbooth, in direction of Bari, was hit and killed by a truck : he leaves behind a wife and two children.

In South Tyrol, in the Merano area, a farmer of about 50 was beheaded by the threshing machine he was driving.

(Unioneonline / vl)