Turin, tragedy in via Genova, the report distributed by the prosecutor: “Check the static conditions of the road”
TURIN. Check the static nature of the road on which the cranes that collapsed on 18 December in via Genova rested. This is the advice from the Prosecutor’s Office in the context of the investigation into the tragedy in which three fitters, Filippo Falotico, 20 years old from Turin, and the Lombard colleagues Roberto Peretto and Marco Pozzetti, 52 and 54, in charge of assembling the crane, lost their lives. construction. The assessment was entrusted to engineer Giulio Ventura, professor at the Polytechnic of Turin.
The consultancy will be used to verify the conditions of the road and the foot before and after the collapse, also for a causal link between the conditions of the subsoil and the accident. Then there is a further aspect to consider. Generally, before the opening of a construction site of that type, the companies that install the construction crane, in this case the Locagru company, can carry out assessments on the conditions of the ground on which the structure rests. For example on the presence of tunnels, underground services and so on. Was I done correctly?
A central aspect to the scrutiny of the investigators, coordinated by the prosecutor Giorgio Nicola and the assistant prosecutor Vincenzo Pacileo, remains an “anomalous stress at an unmanageable height” suffered by the telescopic arm, while he was lifting the horizontal arm of the construction crane. What is the cause? Initial investigations show that the imprint left on the asphalt, near a manhole, by the right rear foot of the Calabrese company’s crane would be the result of a “jolt” following the collapse. The most well-established hypothesis, at the moment, remains that of human error. From whom?
The crane operator, Mirzad Svraka, 39, of Bosnian origin and a resident of Italy for years, was heard several times by the magistrates. During the assembly phases of the construction crane he was in telephone connection with the three assemblers at the top of the tower and from them he received the maneuvering instructions. He was slightly injured in the accident. In the hospital he was desperate: “I want to die, let me die.” In the second interview with the prosecutor, he ruled out that there were any anomalies that day.
As part of the dossier for manslaughter, the report by Professor Giorgio Chiandussi, professor at the Polytechnic, consultant to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, is awaited, on the technical checks on the cranes, removed from the scene of the disaster, dissected and taken to a judicial deposit.
The crane had undergone maintenance on December 16, two days before the tragedy, on the premises of the Calabrese company. The maintenance and overhauling minds had been ascertained by a specialized company and, in recent days, the company has provided all the documentation to Spresal. In the documents of the investigation there is also a sheet found inside the cabin of the crane during the removal phases which, it seems, would contain a series of cabin of the crane.