(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 7 - The five workers who died after
inhaling toxic fumes in the sewer system of Casteldaccia near
Palermo Monday should not have gone down into the sewers because
waste suction was supposed to have been handled from above,
sources said Tuesday after Italy's umpteenth workplace accident
tragedy.
The contract stipulated with Amap, the municipal company that
had given their company, the Quadrifoglio group, the contract
for the work, reportedly stipulated that the suction of sewage
was to be done from the surface by means of a pumping truck and
that the personnel were not to go underground, officials said.
This explains why none of the victims wore masks or had gas
alerts, a device that measures the concentration of hydrogen
sulphide, the gas that eventually killed them. (ANSA).