He falls from the roof
According to an initial reconstruction by the police, who are in charge of the investigation, work was underway in a house and the man was on the roof of the building carrying out operations to remove and arrange panels.
An investigation has been opened
Apparently, he fell into the void but investigators are checking whether he was hit by something after the impact. An aspect that will emerge as soon as the cadaver inspection by the medical examiner, appointed by the magistrates of the Syracuse Prosecutor’s Office, in charge of the investigation, is concluded.
The Uil complaint
“The massacre continues. Another victim today in Sicily, just when we comment with dismay on the quarterly Inail data which demonstrate how far we are from our goal, which is our life’s battle: Zeromortisullavoro ”. This was stated by Luisella Lionti, general secretary of Uil Sicilia, expressing “the anger and pain of the People’s union for the accident on a construction site in Floridia in which a 59-year-old construction worker died this afternoon”. “We now rely on the judiciary and the police – says Luisella Lionti – We ask for justice and truth not only for the victim but also for his family members to whom we guarantee maximum trade union and legal support from now on”.
Accidents at work in 2024
Accident reports submitted to INAIL in the first three months of 2024 were 145,130, up by 0.4% compared to the 144,586 in the first quarter of 2023, by 12.8% compared to January-March 2021 and by 10.9 % compared to January-March 2020, and down by 7.9% compared to 2019, the year preceding the pandemic crisis, and by 25.2% compared to 2022. There were 191 fatal accident reports, five fewer compared to the 196 recorded in the first quarter of 2023 and 21 less than in 2019, 25 more than in 2020, six more than in 2021 and two more than in 2022.
