A labour court judge on
Friday sentenced Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri to pay 1.1
million euros in damages to the three children of a retired
electrical welder who died of asbestos-related complications in
2006.
The court found the company failed to adequately protect
the welder from 1973 when he first joined the company to at
least 1990, when he was exposed to asbestos on a daily basis.
He took early retirement in 2000, because work-related
accidents and illness agency INAIL recognized he had been
exposed to asbestos for 17 years.
He died in April 2006 aged 55.
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