A25-year-old man was crushed to death by a steel girder while engaged in construction work in Trentino Friday, the latest in a long string of accidental workplace fatalities in Italy that has spurred government action.
Premier Giorgia Meloni said her government was allocating 650 million euros in new money to boost workplace health and safety before the May Day national holiday.
Meloni said in an interview published in Corriere della Sera that "it is unacceptable that every day is punctuated by deaths and injuries".
The government met trade unions earlier this month to discuss the issue of health and safety.
Workplace accident insurance agency INAIL said that work-related deaths had risen by 8.37% to 205 in the first quarter of the year.
