Wheels of heavy Grana Padano killed a cheesemaker on the spot in a devastating accident

An unlikely work accident involving world-famous Grana Padano cheese killed a man in Bergamo, Italy.

A shelf with a humongous amount of hard delicacy unexpectedly collapsed and buried the factory owner underneath. It took over a hundred rescuers to remove the heavy wheels of cheese and clear the access to the cheesemaker.

Here is how it happened.

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Man’s body got lost amongst thousands of wheels of cheese

On Sunday evening Giacomo Chiapparini, a man in his 70s, went to his family-owned cheese factory in Bergamo, Lombardy region, just east of Milan, to control a piece of machinery and inspect the ripening process when something unheard-of happened.

A 10-metre-high shelf storing thousands of wheels of parmesan-like Grana Padano cheese broke, causing a domino effect, and saw the massive amount of produce collapse on top of the poor man.

The workshop contained a total of around 25,000 wheels of high-quality delicacy. Each one can weigh up to 40 kg.

The Chiapparini's company has been producing Grana Padano since 2006.

His daughter Mary said that Giacomo, the youngest of 7 brothers, ‘worked for years with his father and two brothers as a sharecropper before setting up on his own, earning, thanks to his work, the first farmhouse and some land’.

He eventually went on to produce his own cheese and managed to ‘get the quality awards recognised.’

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What could have gone wrong in the cheese factory?

Worried employees outside the factory raised the alarm and called for help after they suspected the worst.

Local media reported that an estimated 20 firefighters arrived at the site immediately, with more resources engaged from neighbouring areas.

A total of 118 rescuers, including paramedics participated in the process, with the search lasting through the night.

When they managed to remove the heavy wheels of hard cheese, following a 12-hour operation, they found Chiapparini's body 40 feet away from the machine.

It’s not clear why the shelves collapsed and killed the cheesemaker.

One line of investigation is that a machine that rotates the wheels of cheese - a procedure that matures the dairy product - may have moved and caused the deadly collapse.

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Source used:

- Newsweek: 'Elderly Man Crushed to Death by Thousands of Wheels of Cheese'