At the conclusion of her indictment in the courtroom, the public prosecutor Anna Maria Rossi requested a 4-month prison sentence for the owner of a construction company and the owner of an oil mill called to answer for very serious negligent injuries and violation of the rules on worker safety.
The case
The event at the center of the proceedings being carried out at the Verbania court occurred on 1 June four years ago in a house under renovation in Vacciago di Ameno. According to the reconstruction carried out by the carabinieri and subsequently by the inspectors of the Spresal service of the Novara ASL, a worker – who is out of the trial which started in May 2022 before judge Antonietta Sacco – who was carrying out the demolition of a house in Viale Santuario della Bocciola had suffered a foot crushed under the track of a mobile machine, a sort of crusher.
The operator of the vehicle, who apparently was proceeding very slowly, had noticed what had happened upon hearing the injured man’s cries of pain and had alerted the rescuers. The consequences for the worker, crushed by a weight of several tons, immediately appeared very serious. Transferred under code red, by helicopter, from Ameno to the Orthopedic Trauma Center in Turin, the man had undergone emergency surgery, but the amputation of his leg below the knee had become necessary. In the search for the causes it would have emerged, among other things, that the road where those works were being carried out would have been particularly narrow and the oil mill would have barely passed through it and, furthermore, that Monday afternoon four years ago the remote control of the vehicle it wouldn’t have worked and it would have been necessary to use the fixed pushbutton panel.
All alleged conditions which, according to the prosecution, contributed to the accident which occurred on Lake Orta. In court in Verbania the offended party reconstructed the incident with his lawyer Alberto Zanetta, while the accused are defended by lawyers Marco Milan and Mattia Casarotti of Novara. According to the prosecutor, the two defendants were responsible for that accident, while for the defense what happened in 2020 was the fault of the worker’s negligent behavior. Who, it must be said, has in the meantime been compensated by INAIL and the insurance company and has withdrawn the civil action.
