Once again a man dies at work. The victim is a 52-year-old worker who was carrying out maintenance work on a runway at the Bolognese Marconi airport. The employee would have been hit by a heavy vehicle driven by a colleague.

Another life cut short at work. In Bologna, a 52-year-old man died during the night between 13 and 14 September while working on the resurfacing of a runway inside the Guglielmo Marconi airport. He is the fifth victim of work accidents in Italy in just twenty-four hours.

The worker was apparently crushed by a heavy vehicle owned by the company he worked for, driven by a colleague who hit him. The Air Border Police, the emergency room operators and the Occupational Medicine doctors arrived at the site of the accident to carry out the investigations.

According to the first information gathered, the employee was an employee of a company in the city of Modena. In a note released by the Bologna airport company we read: “The Bologna airport expresses deep sorrow for the tragic episode and its closeness to the family and colleagues of the victim. A fifty-two-year-old Italian driver. The company will provide the widest collaboration to the authorities to shed light on what happened.”

In the same note, the dynamics of the accident were then clarified: “During a scheduled maintenance intervention on the runway, a driver of the company in charge of the work was crushed by a moving vehicle driven by a colleague and, despite the ‘immediate intervention by the emergency services and the 118 doctor, he died.”

The mayor of the city, Matteo Lepore, intervened on the tragic story by declaring that “the competent authorities will ascertain the responsibilities of the episode. But everyone’s attention and commitment is needed to ensure that this plague ends, with greater investments in training and safety on the work. Furthermore, it will be necessary to work both on a new culture of safe work and on technological innovation in prevention devices”.

In the meantime, Sergio Lo Giudice, the mayor’s delegate working for the municipality and metropolitan city, is going to the site of the accident.