The family of Giuliano De Seta will not receive any compensation for the death of her 18-year-old son. Giuliano was carrying out an internship of school-work alternation last September, within the BC Service company in Noventa di Piave, which makes molds for plastic materials. While working, Giuliano was crushed by a heavy block of metal that slipped from an easel. An artifact of 1056 kilos. The student of the Da Vinci technical-industrial institute in Portogruaro should have carried out a three-week internship to learn the trade he had chosen to study.
The paradox with which Giuliano De Seta’s family collided was to discover that by law, the student who is carrying out an internship is treated as a worker but no compensation is foreseen (because one is not a worker to all intents and purposes), unless the victim who dies on the job is the head of the family. Not the case of Giuliano, who, as an eighteen-year-old student, depended financially on his parents. However, Inail provides for invalidity in the event of impairment but in the event of death the family is considered to be protected as, at the time of death, it loses a source of income.
A further slap for Giuliano’s parents, who are awaiting the start of the trial on March 10, to understand what the real dynamics of what happened, still unclear, were. The only worker who was next to Giuliano when the accident occurred told the investigators: «I had placed this mold on the two trestles and I work on it without keeping it hooked to the overhead crane because it is already safely supported on the trestles: it doesn’t move from there».
At the moment, the suspects they are: the owner of BC Service, Luca Brugnerotto, and the principal of the institute Anna Maria Zago. Together with them, the company safety manager and the teacher who played the role of «school tutor».
Based on the data released by the Cub Study Center (on those collected by Inail which, however, do not take into account undeclared work) and the National Observatory of deaths at work in both Bologna and Mestre, there were a total of at least 1484 deaths at work in 2022, equivalent to 28 per week and 4 per day on average. In 2021 the victims had been 1404.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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