{"id":44409,"date":"2024-05-06T19:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T19:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/06\/5-dead-after-inhaling-hazardous-gas-at-a-water-plant-in-sicily\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T19:25:09","slug":"5-dead-after-inhaling-hazardous-gas-at-a-water-plant-in-sicily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/06\/5-dead-after-inhaling-hazardous-gas-at-a-water-plant-in-sicily\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Dead After Inhaling Hazardous Gas at a Water Plant in Sicily"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five workers died on Monday afternoon while working in a sewer connected to a water treatment plant in the town of Casteldaccia near Palermo, Sicily, according to firefighters who recovered the bodies. A sixth worker was seriously injured and in intensive care, local officials said.<\/p>\n

Girolamo Bentivoglio, chief of firefighters in Palermo, said the workers had breathed in hydrogen sulfide, a gas often present at waste treatment plants that is toxic in high concentrations. Levels were so high at the site where the workers were killed, \u201cthat fatality is immediate,\u201d Mr. Bentivoglio said in a televised interview on RaiNews24, the national broadcaster\u2019s news channel.<\/p>\n

The accident raised a new round of outrage over the incidence of workplace deaths in Italy. In April, seven workers were killed in an explosion in a hydroelectric plant near<\/a> Bologna, while five died in Florence during the construction of a supermarket in February.<\/p>\n

According to the European statistics agency Eurostat<\/a>, Italy ranks eighth among European countries in fatal accidents at work, with an incidence of 2.66 per 100,000 employed, which is higher than the European Union average of 1.76, but lower than France\u2019s 3.32.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n