MYSURU: An Italian automation engineer died after he fell at an under-construction site of a major company in Nanjangud on Thursday. Mariantonia Telattin , 58, landed on iron rods and angular bars from a height of 10 feet. Although he was rushed to a private hospital in Mysuru, the injuries he sustained proved too serious, and was pronounced dead minutes after his arrival. "Telattin was a hefty man, and might have lost his balance while inspecting some equipment. The incident happened on Thursday afternoon ," said Nanjangud police.Telattin's colleague Ernesto Pedretti told the cops that they reported at the site around 9am. "Telattin was working on the controls of packaging materials of the automatic storage and retrieval facility," Pedretti told police.It was when Pedretti and other workers could not find Telattin that they went to the first floor. They found Telattin on the ground.Telattin was a part of a team of three engineers from M/s Automha Italy, who arrived in Mysuru on May 28. They were in Mysuru to inspect the controls of the automatic storage and retrieval facility at a paint factory being set up in Nanjangud."We learnt about the incident around 10.45pm on Thursday. A case of unnatural death has been filed, and a probe is under way," police said.

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