Five people died in the workplace massacre which occurred in Casteldaccia, in the Palermo area, where a team of seven workers was carrying out some sewerage work on behalf of Amap. Epifanio Alsazia, 71 years old and co-owner of the Quadrifoglio Group, was from Partinico (Palermo), as was Ignazio Giordano, 57 years old. Giuseppe Miraglia, 47 years old, was originally from San Cipirello (Palermo), while Roberto Raneri, 51 years old, was from Alcamo (Trapani). Giuseppe La Barbera was a temporary worker at Amap. A sixth person was hospitalized in very serious conditions while the last worker remained unharmed.
What happened
According to an initial reconstruction, the five workers died one after the other by lowering themselves into a manhole of the sewage plant. After the first worker remained underground without re-emerging, the others lowered themselves to understand what was happening. The seventh member of the team, not seeing his colleagues come out, raised the alarm. “I saw the faces of the poor workers, they had a color that as a former medical examiner makes me think of intoxication”, he told theHandle the regional councilor for Labour, Nuccia Albano, leaving the site of the massacre. “If all the necessary precautions had been taken, all of this would not have happened”, underlined the provincial commander of the Palermo Fire Brigade Girolamo Bentivoglio Fiandra, confirming that hydrogen sulphide fumes killed the victims.
