Four workers died in as many on-duty accidents which occurred in different parts of Italy, plus a fifth whose death is being investigated, and illness can also be hypothesized: this is the dramatic toll recorded in the last few hours, which once again brings it to the national spotlight the issue of working conditions, which too often do not respect safety rules.
On Tuesday 12 March two workers died, one in Campania, in San Marco Evangelista in the Caserta area, the other in Lombardy, in Carpenedolo in the Brescia area, today another two, one in Brindisi and the other in Trento.
In Lazio, in San Giorgio a Liri in the province of Frosinone, a 60-year-old fell from the recycling compactor in the afternoon and died;
the autopsy will establish whether the death was related to work situations or was caused by an illness.
If there is any doubt in the Frosinone area, there is none in relation to the other four episodes: they were fatal accidents at work, to be understood - and the investigations of the judiciary activated in all four circumstances will do so - if by mistake of the employee or due to lack of safety devices and therefore the fault of the employers.
In Carpenedolo (Brescia) a 43-year-old worker of Albanian origins died after falling into a void while working on a construction site for an external company.
The carabinieri of the Desenzano company and the technicians of the Brescia ATS intervened on site for the investigations.
On Tuesday evening, around 7pm, the 26-year-old Neapolitan Giuseppe Borrelli was trapped and killed in a machine in the San Marco Evangelista (Caserta) company "Laminazione Slim", which produces aluminum laminates;
from the first investigations carried out by the Maddaloni police station and by the staff of the Caserta Local Health Authority, it seems that the young man worked in the company with precarious contracts on behalf of a labor supply agency (the Gi Group), with the last contract signed last February;
the Public Prosecutor's Office of Santa Maria Capua Vetere has opened a case for manslaughter, ordering the seizure of the body.
Already on Tuesday evening, after the injury, Borrelli's colleagues stopped.
For tomorrow, Thursday 14 March, however, the metalworkers' unions Fiom-Cgil, Fim-Cisl, Uilm and Fismic have proclaimed a four-hour strike to protest against deaths at work and say "enough of the massacre".
The company "Laminazione Sottile" intervened with a note in which it expressed its condolences for the death.
"The company - we read - is close to the loved ones and friends of our colleague Giuseppe Borrelli, is close to his family and will continue to be so in the future, in the certainty that there will not be a single day in which we will be able to forget that the duty to protection of worker safety is an integral part of our identity".
Another fatal accident in a plastic material processing company in the industrial area of Brindisi, where a 37-year-old worker died probably because he was crushed by a machine.
The Police and Spesal staff (Workplace Prevention and Safety Service) are investigating the matter.
Latest fatal accident, in a carpentry shop in Tiarno di Sopra, in the province of Trento;
here a 59-year-old Pole, resident in Ledro, died after being hit and dragged by a forklift loaded with a pallet of wood driven by one of his colleagues.
However, the dynamics are being examined by the local police of Alto Garda and Ledro and by Uopsal, the operational unit for prevention and safety in the workplace.
An autopsy is pending.
The black day was also characterized by other injuries, serious but fortunately not fatal.
Like in Carrara, where a 42-year-old man, an employee of a construction company, fell from the roof of a warehouse from over three metres.
He suffered chest trauma.
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