A guard at a 2026 Winter Olympic venue building web site within the mountain resort of Cortina died throughout a frigid in a single day shift, authorities confirmed on Saturday.
Italy’s infrastructure minister, Matteo Salvini, referred to as for a full investigation into the circumstances of the 55-year-old employee’s dying.
Italian media reported that the dying occurred on Jan. 8, whereas the employee was on responsibility at a building web site outdoors of Cortina’s ice enviornment. Temperatures the night time of the dying plunged to 10.4 levels Fahrenheit.
The dying occurred lower than a month earlier than the opening of the Feb. 6-22 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
Cortina metropolis officers mentioned they had been “deeply saddened and troubled by the dying.”
Cortina will host curling, sliding and girls’s Alpine snowboarding.
