The owner of a cheese factory in northern Italy was killed on Sunday when 15,000 wheels of his cheese fell on him, crushing him to death.
A friend and neighbor of the victim, Bortolo Ghislotti, toldthat Chiapparini and his son Tiziano, 50, had gone to his facility after getting an alarm signal from a machine that cleans the cheese wheels, which were being stored in the aging room of the warehouse. After tending to the problem, Tiziano left while his father restarted the machine, NBC reported. “Tiziano told me he heard a massive noise, he turned around and saw his father buried under thousands of cheese wheels,” Ghislotti told NBC.
Chiapparini, who is survived by his wife, Angela, as well as children and grandchildren, founded his cheesemaking business in the late 1970s, . Each year, he made around 15,000 wheels of grana Padano — aged between 12 and 70 months — using milk from the cows raised at the factory.
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