A worker was crushed to death by an animal-feed container at a feed plant near Parma on Thursday evening, local sources said Friday.
The container, weighing several hundreds kilos, hit the man full on t he head, crushing him and killing him instantly.
The accident happened at Sorbolo, a small town south of Parma.
It was the fourth workplace death in Italy this week including that of a 22-year-old mother of a five-year-old son near Prato, spurring calls to up workplace safety.
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