A 62-year-old factory worker was
crushed to death by a bulldozer at Barletta in Puglia as a
shocking spate of workplace accident deaths continued in Italy
on Friday.
The man, an external industrial cleaner, was killed at the
agro-industrial Timac Agro firm.
The man was named as Luigi Riefolo.
Prosecutors have opened a probe for culpable manslaughter, as a
formality, against the 46-year-old driver of the bulldozer.
Government inspectors are on the scene to se if safety
regulations were respected.
It was the second workplace death in Italy Friday after a
43-year-old unnamed worker was crushed to death by a forklift at
a a municipal 'ecocenter' in Sassari.
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