Dairy farmer killed by thousands of cheese wheels in freak accident
In a devastating incident at a cheese warehouse in northern Italy, a 74-year-old dairy farmer lost his life when thousands of wheels of hard parmesan-style formaggio collapsed on top of him. The owner of the Chiapparini cheese-making company, Giacomo Chiapparini, was using a machine to rotate and clean the cheese wheels when the shelves holding them suddenly buckled, resulting in a catastrophic domino effect. The massive storehouse, filled with 25,000 cheese wheels, was left in …