The massacre at work does not stop - 1,500 deaths last year according to conservative data from the unions and hundreds already in the first months of 2023 - and today there is a new heavy toll of blood. Four workers will never return home: two died in Lombardy, one on the first day in a company and the other father of an 8-month-old child, one in Sardinia and the fourth in Calabria. Bewilderment and anger on the part of the unions: the Cub points the finger at precariousness and asks for "real" controls and the institution of the crime of 'murder at work', the CGIL demands "immediate interventions and not just words: it is a continuous war".
A young man, 25 years old, from Bangladesh, died in the afternoon at the Niguarda hospital in Milan where he lived, from injuries sustained this morning in an accident at Crocolux, a textile company that deals with the production of leather accessories in Trezzano sul Naviglio, in the province of the capital. The worker was on his first day of work and was crushed under a heavy machine. He suffered head and chest trauma and fatal injuries to his leg and arm. Abdul Ruman, originally from Bangladesh. The Public Prosecutor's Office opened a file for manslaughter: it ordered an autopsy, the seizure of the machinery, and investigations to ascertain if the young man had a regular contract.
In Bagolino, in the province of Brescia, a 33-year-old man was killed. According to the first reconstructions to overwhelm him was not the plant that he was directly cutting, while he was pruning some trees in the street, but a neighbor damaged for years after the Vaia storm of 2018. He was a resident of the village of Valsabbia, and worked for a local company. Recently married, Daniele Salvini was the father of an eight-month-old baby.
A victim also in Sardinia: also this morning at the Ecocentro of Portoscuso, in Sulcis, a man fell into a waste compactor and died instantly. The doctors of the 118 with an ambulance, a medicalized and the helicopter, but they could not save his life. The carabinieri are reconstructing the exact dynamics of the accident and ascertaining any responsibility.
Fourth victim in Rende, in the province of Cosenza, where a 62-year-old man engaged in some painting work in a company in the industrial area was on a scaffolding when, for reasons still under investigation, he fell into the void from a height of three meters. He died in the hospital of Cosenza shortly after admission. Vincenzo Greco, CGIL Milan secretariat and head of safety at work, underlines that "we are facing a trend that is not reversed and this is a dramatic fact.