A continuous and inexorable massacre: Salvatore Piras , the 23-year-old bricklayer from Ossi who died in an accident in Sorso in the building material depot where he had been regularly employed for about six months, is another victim of work.

Only yesterday, in addition to him, two workers were also killed in Trento and Cesena , the first of 39 years due to the collapse of an attic and the second of about 60 years overwhelmed by the material he was unloading from a truck. A 54-year-old in the Brescia area fell on deaf ears from a skylight while he was carrying out maintenance work.

Piras, yesterday morning, was loading the elements of a scaffolding onto a van. Perhaps due to the strong wind, the stack of pipes, resting on the wall of the warehouse, moved, fell on top of the boy and hit him against the van. The heavy structures pushed him against the door of the van, a fatal blow to the head left him no way out.

THE NUMBERS - In 2022, as many as 182 people lost their lives in the workplace, according to data from the "Bologna National Observatory of Deaths at Work" which recorded 1,404 victims in 2021, taking into account various types of accidents. If we also consider the 4 million workers not registered with Inail and the deaths of the so-called "illegal workers", the figure almost doubles and we reach 351 "fallen" at work in 2022, a figure that includes, again according to the Observatory, 41 farmers killed and crushed by tractors and 27 road hauliers who have died since the beginning of 2022. For the official figures of Inail, updated to 31 March but which refer to the first two months of 2022, the deaths at work are states 114, with an increase compared to the same period of the previous year of + 9.6%.