Workplace deaths: more than three people die every day in Italy.

A massacre that goes unpunished and is uncontrolled. Yet technological advances should increase workplace safety. Instead, the opposite is happening, in a climate of impotence and impunity.

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Deaths at work in Italy

These are dramatic statistics, unworthy of a civilized country, but we should all keep them in mind and scream with rage, to say that the massacre of Italians killed at work at least isn't being passed over in silence. The macabre numbers, accompanied by a daily bulletin of accident victims, especially on construction sites, They tell us that in 2024 in Italy 1.189 people died at work, equal to 3,26 per day. And in 2025, things got worse: in the first five months of the year alone, there were 386 workplace deaths, a 4.8 percent increase compared to 2024.

The categories most at risk are the elderly(over 65), the very young (between 15 and 24), and immigrants. These are the most vulnerable in a labor market governed, in terms of safety, by an encyclopedia of rules. But who respects them? How many ignore them? And why do they always get away with it, while people die at the rate we have just described, adding up to an enormous number of wasted lives, in a general climate permeated with impotence and indifference. 

The statistics also tell us something else important. In the face of many indignant positions (even the Head of State, Sergio Mattarella, has repeatedly denounced the scandal of workplace deaths), more or less transversal on the political level, it is evident that the system that should guarantee safety at work does not work, And no one seems willing to take serious responsibility. All this while technological progress, advancing at a frenetic pace, should have ensured better safety conditions for all workers. Instead, workplace deaths decreased only during the pandemic years, only to rise again steadily, year after year. What does this mean? Simple: the carnage is out of control. And we're all fed up with words.

Cover image source: Il Manifesto

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