Busca

Busca is a municipality in the Province of Cuneo. Its hamlets include Lemma, on the hilly belt around the town centre ^[1][2].

The territory

The hilly area around Busca where the hamlet of Lemma lies is characterised by farmland, some of it worked by private owners ^[1].

Workplace accident of 29 October 2026

Late in the evening of Thursday 29 October 2026, in Lemma, a man born in 1962 died while working in a field he owned, crushed between the tractor he was using and a tree ^[1][2]. The alarm was raised at around 8.15pm, when his wife, seeing he had not come home, called the emergency number ^[1][2]. Firefighters responded, with the first crew from Cuneo backed by the volunteer stations of Busca and Venasca, together with the Carabinieri and 118 Azienda Zero paramedics ^[1][2]. Paramedics could only confirm the man's death ^[1][2]. The exact circumstances remain to be clarified and will be the subject of further inquiries by the authorities ^[1].

Timeline

• 29 October 2026 — In Lemma, a hamlet of Busca in the Cuneo area, a 64-year-old man dies crushed between a tractor and a tree while working his land, on the evening of 29 October. → Quotidiano Piemontese CronacaQui Torino

Related articles: Fatal workplace accident at Lemma di Busca on 29 October 2026

Sources

1. Busca, uomo di 64 anni muore schiacciato dal trattore in un campo a Lemma — Quotidiano Piemontese, 30 October 2026
2. Muore schiacciato tra il trattore e un albero nel suo terreno: tragedia nella notte nel Cuneese — CronacaQui Torino, 30 October 2026