Italian executives sent to jail over workers’ asbestos-related deaths

Italian executives sent to jail over workers’ asbestos-related deaths

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Italian admiral beatific to bastille over workers’ asbestos-related deaths

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Three Italian shipbuilding admiral accept been beatific to bastille for behindhand assassination afterwards 37 workers died of asbestos exposure.

A Sicilian cloister gave the admiral sentences alignment from three to seven and a bisected years. In addition, they will be affected to pay several actor dollars in damages, according to The Province.

One of the beneficiaries is a civic insurer for abode accidents, which was the plaintiff in the case.

Asbestos Acclimated in Italy Despite Ban

The three executives, from a aggregation alleged Fincantieri, accustomed asbestos to be acclimated until 1999, three years afterwards it had been banned in Italy, according to prosecutors.

“The crisis of asbestos has been accepted back the 1950s. Nevertheless, Fincantieri bootless to yield the a lot of basal accomplish to anticipate the assimilation of asbestos dust and fibres,” the prosecutors said in closing arguments quoted by the Italian press.

Sixty-Three Workers Affected by Asbestos Diseases

The 37 workers died from lung blight and 26 added accept accomplished asbestos-related diseases.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, asbestos is a arch could cause of mesothelioma, lung blight and asbestosis. The mineral aswell causes a amount of altered lung diseases.

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Italian executives sent to jail over workers’ asbestos-related deaths