Huge blocks of cheese fell from a broken shelf onto the cheese producer, causing a domino effect and thousands of wheels weighing about 40 kilograms each.
Posted on: August 07, 2023: 06:11 PM GST Last updated: August 07, 2023: 06:43 PM GST
An Italian cheese producer was crushed Sunday evening in Lombardy (north) after huge blocks of cheese fell from a broken shelf, causing a domino effect and thousands of wheels weighing about 40 kilograms each, rescue workers said Monday.
“We had to move the cheeses and shelves with our own hands. It took about 12 hours to find” the victim on Monday morning, said Antonio Dosi, a firefighting official in the city of Bergamo, noting the extent of the “complexity” of the operation they carried out.
The warehouse in Romano di Lombardia, a small town south of Bergamo, contained 25,000 huge blocks of cheese stored on metal shelves about ten meters high.
Thousands of them fell, crushing the owner of the establishment, Giacomo Chiapparini, 74, who was working inside the warehouse.
Rescuers called family members of the victim, who were alarmed by the noise caused by the cheese wheels falling at around 21:00 local time Sunday.
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2023-08-07 14:11:00
