A 74-year-old cheesemaker in northern Italy was killed after a warehouse shelving unit collapsed, burying him under wheels of cheese. Giacomo Chiapparini was alone in his warehouse when the incident occurred. He and his son had earlier checked on a machine that cleans and rotates the wheels of Grana Padano cheese. The incident highlights the dangers of working in the food industry.
Giacomo Chiapparini was alone in his warehouse at around 9 p.m. Sunday in the village of Romano di Lombardia after he and his son had checked earlier on a machine that rotates and cleans mold from the still-maturing wheels of Grana Padano cheese.
“These machines clean and rotate the wheels, so when they find them even slightly out of place, they send a warning. It’s a common problem. So Giacomo and his son went there to adjust the wheels,” Bortolo Ghislotti, president of the Bergamo agricultural district, told NBC News.The warehouse had 10 rows of shelves, each containing 1,600 wheels, per the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Shortly after restarting the machine, something caused a shelving unit to break or topple, creating a domino effect that buried Chiapparini in cheese. Chiapparini’s son Tiziano and employees called for help after hearing the crash, but rescuers weren’t able to find the body until the next morning.
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