Monday, November 28, 2016

Collapses marble slab, digger dies on the job, “slaughter” / PHOTO – Nation

Carrara, 28 November 2016 – Still a tribute of blood to the marble industry. the another worker died, crushed by a heavy slab from a little cut. Still mourning, still tears for relatives and friends. The victim is Mauro Giannetti, 46 years. He was working in a quarry, Torano when in fact it was overwhelmed. This is the quarry 5 Piastriccioni. For Giannetti, as tragically happened over the years for others of his colleagues, there was nothing to do. Had no chance, despite the immediate alarm given by their colleagues. “It is a slaughter to which we must put an end,” says the president of the Region of Henry Doe.

According to preliminary reports, the man, who works in the quarry with his brother, both experts in the field, had just finished cutting the block of marble and he was removing the scaffolding placed around the block when the heavy floe is broken travolgendolo. It took us hours to retrieve the body. Immediately opened an investigation. There will be to understand what has caused the collapse of the slab. It would have been fatal, but the conditional is required, the removal of a wedge that held firm to the plate spezzatasi in two. The block was heavy, two tons. Only around 16 the body of Mauro Giannetti has been recovered. It was then taken to the hospital to Carrara.

At sunset, Carrara found to deal with a new grief caused by the work. The police and the sla lead the investigation and have gathered all the possible items. There were also firefighters and police. Mauro Giannetti was a big fan of the Carrarese. The company has expressed his condolences in a press release, announcing a minute of silence in the next game. The mayor Zubbani, in the afternoon, has canceled the municipal council, which was expected for 18.

Thirteen were the victims of the marble in the last eleven year. Over a dead year. And many wounded, we speak of one every two days. The last two died last 13 April, when the collapse of a ridge of rock, don’t they, Roberto Ricci Antonioli, 55 years old, and Federico Bendetti, 46. A torment for the city. Every mourning, every news of an accident is a jolt for many of the families in the morning, to see their loved ones to go in the cave. A dangerous job for which now everyone is calling for more security. And, the stone sector has proclaimed a strike for the day Tuesday, November 29.

“slaughter” has spoken to the president of the Region of Henry Doe, he then added: “From our side,- as we have done to the Lawn after the fire of Teresa Fashion”, in which died seven chinese workers “intensificheremo the work path in the extraordinary Plan for safety in the working of marble in the district apuo-versiliese, for which we have allocated two and a half million euros. On the front of the mining activities, we are analyzing the dynamics of accidents; and train all the operators of the district to safety, starting with the workers; let us monitor repeatedly on all the quarries, verifying the adoption of personal protective equipment and collective; we will verify the conformity of the machinery with the essential safety requirements. In particular, with regard to the stone industry, let us monitor the observance of medical protocols and handling operations”.

“Despite the complaints of the last few months and the initiatives taken by the Regione Toscana, in Carrara, we continue to die in the quarries of marble”. The stress Mauro Time, secretary of the Cgil Tuscany, and Paul Gozzani, secretary of the Cgil of Massa Carrara. “This fatal accident today makes us scream with anger. There are places of work – continue – where you do not meet the minimum requirements for safety and there are jobs where the risk is very high”. To save the work and life of workers, they add, “when there are security requirements we must have the courage to close the activity until the reset is not the minimum but the maximum of safety possible.

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