A male worker was killed in an accident on the A6 highway in Liguria between Savona and the town of Altare on Monday.
The highway had to be closed because of the accident and there was a 1km-long jam on it at the time of writing.
It is the latest in a spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy.
President Sergio Mattarella said last month that workplace health and safety must be a “permanent priority”.
Workplace accident insurance agency INAIL said recently that 680 fatal work-related accidents were reported to it in the first eight months of 2024, a rise of 3.5% on the equivalent period in 2023.
On October 1 the Senate OK’d a bill to teach workplace safety amid the long spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy.
Premier Giorgia Meloni recently announced that the government has approved the recruitment of 1,600 new labour inspectors.
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