The thirty-one year old of Indian origin didn’t make it who had been involved on Monday afternoonn a terrible accident at work on a farm in Borgo Santa Maria, on the outskirts of Latina, where he had lost his arm in a machine roller plastic wrapping machine towed by a tractor, which had also crushed his lower limbs.
The man, instead of being rescued, was abandoned in front of his home with his arm severed, resting on a box used for harvesting vegetables.
After being urgently transported by air ambulance to the San Camillo hospital in Rome, where he was hospitalized with a reserved prognosis in serious conditions, the thirty-one year old died this morning in the Roman hospital.
ANSA Agency Worker loses an arm and is abandoned on the street – News – Ansa.it Flai Cgil: “This is the barbarity of exploitation in the countryside” (ANSA) In the meantime, the Latina prosecutor’s office, following the complaint from Flai Cgil Latina-Frosinone, opened an investigation for negligent personal injury, failure to provide aid and provisions regarding irregular work. Investigations by the Carabinieri are underway, carried out together with the Nil of Latina and the Spresal staff of the ASL, with further investigations useful for defining the worker’s working position and regularity on the Italian territory.
The affair aroused indignation and rekindled attention on the phenomenon of gangmastering and the exploitation of laborers bordering on slavery. In the Chamber, the opposition from Avs to the Pd, from M5s, Iv and Action asked for information from the Minister of Labor Marina Elvira Calderone on the fight against gangmastering, defining what happened as “atrocious”. Even the senator of the Democratic Party Susanna Camusso with an urgent question addressed to the ministers Calderone and of agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida, also signed by 13 other colleagues of the Democratic Party, asks to know the government’s strategy on the matter.
“This episode represents a violation of fundamental human rights, human dignity and the rules relating to worker safety”, says the mayor of Latina Matilde Celentano. The president of the Lazio Region Francesco Rocca underlines that what happened is “disconcerting”, “cruel” and “cowardly”, reiterating that “safety at work and the fight against gangmastering are our priority”.
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