Two work-related deaths in a few hours: the crane on Lake Garda and the press in Fabriano

In the early afternoon, in Malcesine, on Lake Garda, a raft carrying a crane capsized, striking a worker, who died from the severe injuries sustained. A few hours earlier, in the morning, a fifty-seven-year-old man was crushed by a press inside the Biondi cardboard factory in Fabriano, in the province of Ancona. These are two separate incidents, occurring in different production contexts — one outdoors, on a work vessel; the other inside an industrial plant — but linked by their outcome and by the minimal time gap between the two events.

The news is reported by ANSA, which cites the Fire Brigade that responded to the scene of the Malcesine accident and the Spisal of the Ulss 9, the health authority responsible for workplace safety, involved in the investigations into what happened in Fabriano. At present this is a single journalistic source; no independent confirmation is available. The two institutional sources cited within the same article — the Fire Brigade and the Spisal — reinforce the reliability of the reported fact, but do not constitute distinct sources for editorial verification purposes.

From the material available, the names of the victims are not yet known, nor are the complete circumstances that led to the capsizing of the raft in Malcesine or to the fatal contact with the press in Fabriano. The Spisal, responsible for prevention and safety in workplaces, is the body that normally carries out the technical reconstruction of this type of accident, separate from any criminal proceeding.

The temporal coincidence of the two episodes — one in the early afternoon, the other in the morning of the same day — does not in itself imply any connection between the two events, which remain independent occurrences that took place in different regions, Veneto and Marche, and in different sectors: the handling of heavy equipment on a lake and the industrial processing of paper. What remains, however, according to the source, is the fact of two work-related deaths recorded on the same day in two distant points of Italian territory.

No updated figures on the total number of fatal workplace accidents in Italy in the recent period are currently available in the material consulted, nor are there sectoral tallies that would allow these two cases to be placed within a broader series. Verifying this context would require additional data from sources such as Inail, which are not present in the documentation available for this article.

The Spisal’s investigations into the two episodes remain ongoing, according to the cited source, and concern the reconstruction of the working conditions and safety procedures adopted at the two sites involved.