Overview
- A 30-year-old employee was crushed by a press during normal operations at the Cora srl pharmaceutical facility in Spianate, Altopascio, and was declared dead after colleagues and emergency teams tried to resuscitate him.
- Carabinieri, the fire brigade and technicians from the workplace prevention and safety service are conducting on-site inspections to reconstruct how the incident happened and to identify any responsibilities.
- Trade unions Fiom and CGIL of Lucca issued statements of deep condolence and called for a radical strengthening of safety measures and strict enforcement of existing rules at workplaces.
- The on-site probe could lead to administrative sanctions or a criminal inquiry depending on what inspectors find about the machine safeguards and company procedures.
- Officials and reports place the death in a wider national pattern of workplace fatalities, with INAIL data showing 189 work-related deaths in the first quarter of 2026.