Two more workplace deaths in Italy

Friday saw two more workplace deaths in Italy as a long spate of fatal accidents at work which has spurred government action continued. In the first, a 31-year-old mechanic died in a workshop in Cinquefrondi, in the province of Reggio Calabria, near the entrance to the highway connecting the Gioia Tauro plain with the Locride area. According to initial reports, the young man was working under a car that had been raised and supported with jacks when, for reasons currently under investigation, the jacks failed, causing the vehicle to fall. The man was crushed to death The second accident took place at Diano d'Alba, in the Cuneo area. The victim, a 22-year-old woman, died when a tractor overturned. The young woman was working on a local farm. On Thursday a worker at the San Vito Lo Capo sewag