Tag: Lombardy

Man crushed to death under 25,000 falling cheese wheels

In an unusual incident, an Italian man namely Giacomo Chiapparini, 75, was crushed to death after nearly 25,000 wheels of cheese fell on him in his warehouse. The incident took place on Sunday in which the 75-year-old man was buried under a massive stockpile of ripening Parmesan-style cheese following...

Italian man crushed to death by falling cheese wheels

An Italian man has been crushed to death under thousands of vast wheels of a Parmesan-style hard cheese, which weigh around 40kg each, firefighters said. Giacomo Chiapparini, 74, was buried under the cheeses when a shelf broke in his warehouse in the northern Lombardy region on Sunday. That created...