The man, Nicholas Colombini, working for a company in Terni engaged in maintenance work, left a wife and two children, one a few months old and the other three years old.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced last month that the government has approved the recruitment of 1600 new labour inspectors amid concern about the spate of workplace deaths in Italy.
Concern has been heightened by the June death of Satnam Singh.
Singh was an off-the-books 31-year-old Indian farm labourer who bled out after being dumped outside his hut with his arm severed by wrapping machinery placed beside him on a fruit picking box.
Almost 500 people have been killed in work accidents in Italy so far this year, the national observatory on the phenomenon said last month.
There were about 1000 last year, it said.
Five men died after inhaling toxic gas in a sewer network near Palermo in May, and seven died in a hydro power plant blast near Bologna in April.
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