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Florence , April 14, 2016 – 15:13
CARRARA -” E ‘was like a roar. Or rather two. One around 12.30. The other to the 13:40. ” Then ambulances and helicopters Pegaso. So the citizens of Colonnata tell the dramatic accident at Gioia quarry of Colonnata in the early afternoon of Thursday. A bulk of the nearly two thousand tons marble slab came loose from the wall and swept three workers: two remained under the rubble and are officially missing but “to find them alive would be a miracle,” says the Mayor of Carrara, Angelo Zubbani. A quarryman however, he remained suspended in the air and then rescued by firefighters. The incident occurred in Gioia quarry run by Antonioli Brothers: This is one of the largest in the area. The three miners were cutting a ridge when the collapse occurred, maybe they were finalizing the cutting of a wall. The quarrymen precipitates were probably intent on removing the rods where the cutting machine runs. A fourth quarryman was taken to hospital, taken ill and in shock. In all basins of the quarries of the Apuan Alps we have been suspended the work and for the whole day on Friday was organized by all the unions of the quarrymen, a strike. It will stop the activity is to the quarries and in workshops and sawmills.
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Carrara, collapse in a quarry in Colonnata, three workers involved
Carrara, collapse in a quarry in Colonnata, three workers involved
Carrara, collapse in a quarry in Colonnata, three workers involved
Carrara, collapse in a quarry in Colonnata, three workers involved
Carrara, collapse in a quarry in Colonnata, three workers involved
Carrara, collapse in a quarry in Colonnata, three workers involved
The mayor: “The two miners are missing”
At the quarry also the mayor of Carrara Angelo Zubbani. “The bodies have not been recovered, the area must be made safe before they can do the surgery: technically the two workers were missing, but rescuers said it would take a miracle to find them still alive.” To declare is the mayor of Carrara Angelo Zubbani, who is following in the steps of 118 and the fire department. “The workers were doing the finishing operations to complete detachment of a block – says the mayor – they were high above the block, when a piece broke off beneath them. Two were dragged down twenty meters and remained buried. The third, the one who was making the most delicate operations, was harnessed and then escaped the fall. ” A Massa city council was suspended, the workers involved in the landslide were from two fractions oven and Cassette.
The unions
” Another unacceptable day. Workplace accidents do not stop, there is always more fear and concern among workers, we all have to ask ourselves how to do more to combat this plague. We express our condolences and solidarity to the families of the workers involved, “says the general secretary of the CGIL of Massa Carrara Paolo Gozzani. Adds Dalida Angelini (general secretary of CGIL Toscana): “In general, the numbers of accidents at work seem almost that of a war report, every day in Carrara workers come out in the morning to do their job in the quarries and wonder if They will return home. Going to work should not endanger life. We had asked for a permanent table to find the control and prevention tools on the subject of safety risks at work, today we upheld it to local and regional institutions. ”
“Driver’s license points for the stone industry”
” in those quarries were killed three workers in a few months, a budget that gives the stone industry of the province apuana the dubious distinction of deaths at work, “recalls the secretary of Filca-CISL national, Riccardo Gentile, and the secretary general Filca of Tuscany, Ottavio De Luca. “Obviously – plus – there is a security issue that need to be addressed immediately and drastically. The institutions should seriously consider our idea, we launched a few months ago, in the stone industry to introduce a sort of ‘Licence to’ points for companies, similar to that already proposed for the building. The purpose of this tool, our intention is to reward the virtuous reality edi exclude from the market those in which you are experiencing too many injuries. ”
The President of the Region at the scene
the President of the Tuscany Region Enrico Rossi on his way to Carrara:” it is a very serious and unacceptable incident on which it is necessary to fully clarify and ascertain any deficiencies related to safety – says Rossi – our thoughts go first and foremost to families of miners involved, I express on behalf of myself and all of Tuscany our closeness and our pain. In recent years, as a region, we have been busy for the prevention and safety, but not enough. We must commit ourselves even more. So how should do all appointed bodies and companies in the industry. “
Nine dead in recent ten years
Nine dead, two missing as well as today, in the past decade to the quarries of Carrara and a wounded every two days: the shock data are disseminated recently by ‘ASL di Massa Carrara, demonstrating how the risks in mining are still high. Were 1,258 accidents since 2005 in the field of mining. Given that the working days are about 250 per year, the bill is an accident every two days. The latest tragedy November 24, 2015 when he lost his life the quarryman Nicola Mazzucchelli, 46, killed by a `perlina’, a sphere of steel rocketed away from the chain diamond wire during the cutting of a block; August 29 the same year in the quarries of Colonnata to Steeples had died Maggiani Brunello, 46, fell from a bank. On September 6, 2014 was the fateful first day of work at Lurand Llanaj, 32, Albanian driver crashed his truck to Lorano. 2013, fortunately, has passed unscathed, although no deaths were wounded 81. The year before, on September 8, 2012, a marble flake detached from a block he had killed Lucio Hoods’, 47, who was working on the bank of the Calocara company Fb Cave quarry. Once white death November 16, 2011: Enrico Mauceri, 34, a father of two girls, has been struck by a burst of 15 thousand volts while he was brushing an Enel cabin in Ruggetta quarry.
April 14, 2016 | 15:13
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