Plant in Porto Torres, three accidents at work in one month

A maintenance worker ended up in hospital following a mechanical failure, another worker injured in the leg from a concrete platform.

In the industries of the industrial area of Porto Torres, in just under a month since the beginning of the year, there have already been three accidents. The third case dates back to last January 19, a growing phenomenon aggravated by the contractual conditions of workers.

For trade unions, prevention and training are no longer a strategy, especially in these pandemic years. Fewer and fewer safety resources are invested in production processes, with a consequent reduction in inspectors and intervention checks. In the days following the state of agitation of 21 February, proclaimed by the confederal CGIL, CISL and UIL together with the categories of all the workers of the Eni plant, the unions carried out a series of initiatives and promoted assemblies to rebel and denounce the unsustainable condition , which records injuries and deaths in the workplace on a daily basis.

“The Porto Torres plant is a complex place, in which safety depends on the relationships and interactions between workers and processes which - underline the trade unions, CGIL, CISL and UIL - often take place at the same time. The fragmentation of contracts produces fragmentation of responsibilities, countless handover, in which risks are undermined that produce danger and potential accidents ". And if the fundamental point, to work in safety, for the unions "is to have a safe, stable and quality job", the difficult condition in the contracts in the Eni plant "constitutes fertile ground, in which accidents develop and are sometimes hidden ".