Overview
- Forner, 44, was cleaning the press around 7:45 p.m. on Oct. 10 when it powered back on and fatally crushed him, according to local reports.
- The incident occurred at the family-run Pat del Colmél winery in Castelcucco in Italy’s Treviso province.
- Investigators are assessing accounts of a brief outage that made the press appear off before it restarted when power returned, with no definitive cause announced.
- His father, Lino Forner, witnessed the accident and raised the alarm, and responders pronounced Matteo dead at the scene before transferring his body to the Castelfranco Veneto mortuary.
- Castelcucco mayor Paolo Mares paid tribute to Forner, a 2022 city council electee known in the regional wine community, who is survived by a 15-year-old son.