With a limb severed he is thrown into the middle of the street instead of being helped. It happened to a agricultural worker in the province of Latina, who was engaged in the treatment of hay.
“Extremely serious accident at work this afternoon on a farm in the province of Latina, near Borgo Santa Maria, where an Indian national worker cutting hay had an arm severed by a machine and other serious fractures; adding to the horror of the accident is the fact that instead of being helped by the employers he was dumped like a bag of rubbish near his home.” The report and the news of the serious episode are from Flai Cgil, who with the general secretary of Frosinone Latina immediately rushed to the scene to see what had happened and how to help the people involved; the worker was transported by air ambulance to Rome.
“I was contacted by a worker who sent me a photo of a severed limb – she says Hardeep Kaur, general secretary Flai Cgil Frosinone Latina – explaining to me that it was an accident that occurred to a workmate, who in desperate conditions was dumped into the street from a 9-seater minibus. It’s not a horror film, unfortunately it’s all true.”
The trade unionist then adds: “Here we are not only faced with a serious accident at work, which is already alarming and avoidable in itself, here we are faced with the barbarity of exploitation, which tramples on people’s lives, dignity, health and every rule of civilization. These fields, these roads, these villages and districts we will monitor them every day and for the next few weeks there will be many of us, because we cannot work in these conditions”.
