(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - A worker fell to his death after being hit by a crane Tuesday amid a spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy that has seen 125 deaths this year and 1,000 last and was condemned by President Sergio Mattarella in a May Day speech earlier in the year.
    The worker died Tuesday morning in Fiume Veneto (Pordenone).
    The victim was working from a truck with a crane when he was hit by the same forks with which he was lifting materials.
    The machinery hurled him to the ground from a height of several metres. Death occurred instantly.
    Local sources said the victim was a 69-year-old man working for an external firm.
    Every workplace accident death is unacceptable, President Sergio Mattarella said in a speech in Calabria marking Wednesday's Labour Day holiday on Tuesday.
    "We cannot accept the continuous trickle of deaths, caused by carelessness, by recklessness, by risks that should not have been taken," said the president on the spate that included seven workers killed in a hydro power plant blast near Bologna earlier this month.
    "One thousand deaths at work in a year represents an unimaginable tragedy.
    "Every one of these is unacceptable". (ANSA).