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Florence mourns building site victims

February 18, 2024February 18, 2024Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Florence paused on Saturday to mourn the victims of Friday’s structural collapse at a supermarket building site, which has claimed the lives of four construction workers and left a fifth still missing and feared dead. Three others are injured.

Florence building collapse Image from fire service on social media

Florence building collapse – three dead, others missing

February 17, 2024February 17, 2024Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Three workers are dead, three injured but not in a life-threatening condition and two are missing feared dead after a Florence building collapse on Friday, civil protection regional spokesperson Monia Monni said.

Workplace fatalities continue in Italy

September 30, 2023September 30, 2023Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

A worker was crushed to death in a quarry near Treviso in northern Italy on Saturday. The grim spate of workplace fatalities continues in the country.

Dangerous machinery sign on blue machine.

La Russa denounces stream of work-related deaths

September 13, 2023September 13, 2023Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Senate Speaker Ignazio La Russa said that everyone needs to do more to counter the steady stream of work-related deaths in Italy today. This follows the death of three workers in an explosion at the Esplodenti Sabino plant in the Abruzzo town of Casalbordino on Wednesday.

Brandizzo train station entrance, where five workers were killed. hit by a train as they worked on the tracks

Rail disaster – death of 5 workers

September 1, 2023September 1, 2023Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Five railway workers in northern Italy were killed on Wednesday night when they were hit by a train at Brandizzo while carrying out overnight maintenance work. Two survivors have been discharged from hospital.

tractor in Italy where workplace fatalities continue to rise

Three more workplace fatalities in Italy

February 1, 2022February 1, 2022Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Three more workplace fatalities in Italy today, continuing the appalling trend of 2021. The government’s platitudes in October have yet to have an effect on the number of deaths in the workplace.

Rome – another fatal workplace accident

December 28, 2021December 28, 2021Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

A worker died falling from scaffolding in Rome today. He was the latest fatal workplace accident this year in Italy.

Three workers killed by crane collapse in Turin

December 19, 2021December 19, 2021Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

One crane was constructing another larger crane when they collapsed on to buildings and vehicles. Three workers died as a result of the crane collapse and three further people were injured.

A spate of workplace deaths in 3 days

October 1, 2021October 1, 2021Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Despite an horrific tally of 14 workplace deaths in three days, insurance agency INAIL said workplace accident fatalities actually fell in the first eight months of 2021.

Another workplace fatality as man falls from scaffolding in Genoa

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

A man died this morning in via Cecchi in Genoa. The 54-year-old worker fell from a scaffold while working. It is believed he was working at the height of the third floor. It is yet another workplace fatality this year.