(ANSA) – ROME, MAR 16 – A 26-year-old worker has died after suffering severe burns on May 10 in an accident at the AST steelworks in the Umbria city of Terni, union and healthcare sources told ANSA on Sunday.
The youth, who suffered severe burns due to an accident while he was transporting steel slags, died after a six-day-long hospitalization at Rome’s Sant’Eugenio Hospital, the sources added.
Sunday’s was the umpteenth fatal accident in a long spate of workplace accidental deaths in Italy.
National labour accidents and occupational illness agency INAIL said last month that the number of fatal work-related accidents had increased to 797 in 2024 compared to the 790 recorded in 2023.
The increase in work-related deaths was mainly recorded in the industrial sector and in services , up to 669 from 686, INAL reported.
The latest multiple tragedy came last December when five men were killed by a blast at an Eni fuels depot near Florence.
Meanwhile there has been a steady stream of almost daily individual deaths. (ANSA).
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The youth, who suffered severe burns due to an accident while he was transporting steel slags, died after a six-day-long hospitalization at Rome’s Sant’Eugenio Hospital, the sources added.
Sunday’s was the umpteenth fatal accident in a long spate of workplace accidental deaths in Italy.
National labour accidents and occupational illness agency INAIL said last month that the number of fatal work-related accidents had increased to 797 in 2024 compared to the 790 recorded in 2023.
The increase in work-related deaths was mainly recorded in the industrial sector and in services , up to 669 from 686, INAL reported.
The latest multiple tragedy came last December when five men were killed by a blast at an Eni fuels depot near Florence.
Meanwhile there has been a steady stream of almost daily individual deaths. (ANSA).
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