Italian Farmer Killed by Wall of Cheese
A tragic incident unfolded in northern Italy on Sunday night when a 74-year-old dairy farmer was killed in a catastrophic accident at his cheese warehouse. Giacomo Chiapparini, the proprietor of the renowned Chiapparini cheese-making company in Lombardy, was buried under thousands of wheels of hard parmesan-style cheese when the towering shelves holding the 90lb wheels of grana padano cheese gave way. Chiapparini was operating a machine designed to rotate and clean the cheese wheels at …