At the last company medical examination he would have been found “fit” for work, but to his friend, via message, he wrote about excruciating pain (for months) and the difficulty in standing due to his health conditions. Which would also have caused him a heavy disability. And what a game, now, they will be at the center of further investigations by the investigators and will end up on record in the file opened by the prosecutor on duty Donato Greco for manslaughter: that of Matteo Cornacchia, a 46-year-old worker from a house in Travagliato, who died on Wednesday morning after being hit by a metal plate that came loose from the overhead crane while he was maneuvering it at Siderurgica Dall’Era in Lograto.
He would never have asked to change duties in the workplace. Rather, whether it would have been possible to bring forward the time to retire. Lhe dynamics of the accident are still to be evaluated and reconstructed, despite its dramatic evidence. It cannot be ruled out that the cause of the detachment could be a functioning problem with the magnet to which the very heavy sheet metal was attached: precisely to ascertain this – or vice versa – in the next few hours the Prosecutor’s Office will provide a technical consultancy on the machinery, which in the meantime has been seized. It is therefore probable that the company’s top management will be investigated, so that, as a guarantee, they can in turn appoint an expert to participate in the investigations. Certainly, “the ownership is very shocked by what happened to its employee and is rallying around the family” he had made known through the voice of the lawyer Andrea Puccio, placing himself “at the complete disposal of the investigators in order to facilitate the investigations” and without replying «to the accusations made by some union representatives» in reference to alleged omissions regarding maintenance in the company.
Matteo Cornacchia died instantly, hit in the head. A colleague, recalled by the sound of the slab falling to the ground, was taken ill in front of his lifeless and mangled body. The others, who were also working on further overhead cranes, did not notice what had just happened at first. It only took a moment, unfortunately.
In the file, as well as all the clinical and medical documentation useful for clarifying the worker’s health conditionstherefore the opportunity or not to assign him one task rather than another, the reports of the technicians will also enter – from the Fire Brigade to the ATS operators competent in the matter, in Lograto together with the Carabinieri – in addition to the company registers, to verify whether all workplace safety procedures have been respected.
At present, it cannot be ruled out with certainty that human error was at the origin of the tragedy. But this does not seem to be the prevailing hypothesis. TO Shortly after his death, the provincial secretary of the Uil, Mario Bailo, denounced the worker’s “certified physical problems”, claiming that the 47-year-old “should not have carried out a task that requires impeccable physical fitness”. Aspects, not irrelevant, which the judiciary is called to investigate further, as well as (and above all) any mechanical failures at the origin of the fatal accident, if it is true, as he reported, that for at least months the workers have been talking to him about “reports to the company about the malfunctioning of these machines, which lack continuous maintenance”.
