On Friday, a 38-year-old construction worker from Romania fell to his death from scaffolding around a building under renovation in Rosarno, in the province of Reggio Calabria.
Also on Friday, a 59-year-old man from Catania, Sicily, died after reportedly falling and hitting his head while loading and unloading sand from a vehicle in the industrial zone of Syracuse.
In both cases, Carabinieri police are investigating.
On Thursday evening, a 37-year-old man died from electric shock while checking an air conditioning unit in an apartment in the southern Puglia city of Taranto.
In April the national workplace accident and illness insurance agency, Inail, said Italy registered a 3.7 per cent rise in workplace fatalities in the first quarter of 2023.
The numbers are in respect to the same period in 2022, translating into 196 deaths.
Work-related accidents instead fell by 25.5 per cent to 144,586 over the same period, Inail said.
There were also 18,164 work-related illnesses, an increase of 25.1 per cent.
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