Bergamo
Collapsed shelf: cheesemaker crushed under thousands of loaves
Such a shelf full of cheese loaves collapsed on the man
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A 74-year-old cheese producer died in an accident near the Italian city of Bergamo. The man was apparently trying to control a robot when a shelf collapsed, burying him under thousands of cheeses.
An Italian cheese producer is near the city Bergamo crushed to death by thousands of falling cheeses. The loaves of hard cheese, weighing around 40 kilograms, buried 74-year-old Giacomo Chiapparini when one of the ten-metre-high metal shelves with a total of 25,000 loaves of cheese broke in the warehouse in the small town of Romano di Lombardia, taking other shelves with it. the fire department announced on Monday.
Bergamo: Italian cheese producer buried by thousands of cheeses
The fire brigade spoke of a “difficult” operation. “We had to clear away the cheeses and the shelves by hand,” said a spokesman. It took a good twelve hours to rescue the victim.
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According to a report in the Corriere della Sera newspaper, Chiapparini was working alone in the warehouse at the time of the accident. He therefore tested a robot that turns and automatically cleans the hard cheese loaves of the Grana Padano variety. When his family was startled by the noise in the hall, they called the fire brigade.