Five workers died in a work accident
in Casteldaccia, near Palermo and a sixth was transported to the
Policlinico hospital in Palermo, after being intubated.
According to an initial reconstruction, the six workers from a
private company were carrying out some sewage work, and not in a
wine tank as initially reported, on behalf of Amap, the company
that manages the water and sewage pipelines in Palermo.
Italy is enduring a spate of fatal workplace accidents.
Workplace accident insurance agency INAIL said last week that
almost 200 workers had lost their lives in accidents this year,
2.6% down on last.
President Mattarella said in a May Day speech that every such
death was unacceptable, while unions called for urgent action to
stem the fatal tide.
The spate included seven workers killed in a hydro power plant
blast near Bologna last month.
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