The number of workplace accident deaths in Italy rose 2.2% in the first quarter of 2022, accident insurance agency INAIL said Thursday.
Some 189 people lost their lives at the workplace in the first three months of this year, it said. The rise was wholly due to a rise in female deaths from 14 to 24, since male deaths on the job fell from 171 to 165, INAIL said.
Deaths among the under-40s rose from 34 to 49 and among the 45-49-year-olds from 22 to 24, while deaths fell from 17 to 16 among 40-44-year-olds. The government has taken several steps to try to stem a shocking tide of deaths at the workplace but the spate, which really grabbed public attention a year ago with the death of a 22-year-old mother of a five-year-old boy, Luana D’Orazio, in a textile mill accident near Prato on May 3, 2021, has continued unabated.
