Workers die in Ancona and Robecco: unions call strike

This morning (read the article) the newspaper had reported the deaths of two workers in separate accidents that occurred within the same timeframe, one in Ancona and one in the Milan area. In the afternoon, more precise details emerge about what happened at the Fincantieri shipyard and about the unions’ reaction.

At the Ancona plant, a 55-year-old Tunisian worker died from burns sustained; a 29-year-old colleague of Bangladeshi origin was transferred in extremely serious condition to the Burns Unit in Pisa. The accident occurred while the two workers were carrying out welding work on a vessel, when a fire suddenly broke out.

The Fim, Fiom and Uilm unions described the incident as unacceptable, calling for a change in the culture of workplace safety. “Unacceptable. We must change the culture of safety,” the trade union organizations stated. An eight-hour strike has been called for the day for every work shift at the Ancona shipyard, including the companies operating under subcontract.

In Robecco sul Naviglio, in the Milan area, we had written this morning that a worker had died after falling from a floor slab. The material available today does not add any personal details or further circumstances beyond what was already published this morning: the news remains, for now, what was reported then, coming from a single journalistic source, with no independent confirmation available.

The two accidents remain distinct in sector and dynamics: shipbuilding in the first case, a construction site in the second. What the two events have in common is the announcement, for Ancona only, of a union mobilization involving the entire Fincantieri plant, including subcontractor companies. It also remains to be clarified, in the coming days, whether further findings will emerge about the dynamics of the fall in the Robecco case.