Crushed by a concrete slab, the entrepreneur dies
Accident at work in a foundry, 36-year-old worker dies
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25 August 2021 After the entrepreneur from Valle d'Aosta, Sandro Pepellin, 70, former mayor of Jovencan and owner of a construction company, the 51-year-old worker VDD also died. truck he was unloading at a construction site in Gressan. The owner of the construction company Pepellin was building a B&B, now placed under seizure.
They had to unload prestressed concrete slabs from a truck, when one of these, for reasons yet to be clarified, slipped from the breeches that kept them tied and slipped out of the vehicle, crushing the businessman and the worker. A crane had to be used to free the two men. Then the rush to the hospital and the tragic consequences.
"It is a tragedy that left us all dismayed - comments the mayor of Jovencan, Riccardo Desaymonet - this was to be his last construction site before his retirement. Instead, a tragedy. He gave so much as an administrator for the country and was well liked by the whole community ". The prosecutor has opened an investigation.