New fatal accident at work. A 46-year-old worker from Latiano, in the province of Brindisi, died last night while he was carrying out maintenance work on the conveyor belt of the sugar factory located in the industrial area of the Apulian city. The man may have died from a haemorrhage.
The deceased worker belonged to an external company. He was busy on the conveyor belt that brings sugar directly from the city port to the plant.
“Two victims at work in Puglia in the space of a few days, 17 since the beginning of the year without considering those on the move: what are the institutions waiting for to intervene in a decisive, severe, concrete manner to stop this massacre?”. The general secretary of Uil Puglia Gianni Ricci and the Uil territorial coordinator of Brindisi Fabrizio Caliolo thus they intervene on the death of the worker which follows the death of a worker on May 1st, in Gioia del Colle.
“Puglia – they recall – is confirmed as one of the regions with the highest incidence of fatal accidents in the workplace, but despite our proposals and requests, politics is still incomprehensibly at a standstill, at every institutional level. A license in which human life is valued at a handful of credits certainly cannot be enough – underline Ricci and Caliolo – more incisive interventions are needed. Perhaps the time has come to create a special prosecutor’s office to intervene in what to all intents and purposes are often murders in the workplace, we need to invest in the hiring of inspectors to increase the checks that are currently insufficient, we need a crackdown on companies that do not apply the safety measures and collective agreements signed by the most representative unions, leaving them out of public tenders. In short, a strong response is needed. We continue to ask ourselves how the State would have reacted if all these deaths had been caused by the mafia.”
“More can also be done in Puglia”, they point out. “A month ago we had a meeting with the president of the Region, in which a series of safety measures were proposed to us: increases in checks, resources for training and for the diffusion, even in schools, of the culture of safety at work. But at the moment everything remained on paper. More generally we need to return – conclude Ricci and Caliolo – to giving the right value to human life and work, as synonymous with well-being and development and not death”. Uil Puglia and the Uil coordination of Brindisi “join in the condolences of the family and loved ones of the Latiano worker who was the victim of the accident”.
