Italy: Thyssenkrupp’s Turin site closed and the public prosecutor is suing the managers

After the accident which took place on December 6, 2007, causing seven deaths (see our article No. 071035). Thyssenkrupp's Turin site closed after an agreement signed, on March 3, 2008, between the multinational company and trade unions. Its managers will have to answer to heavy charges expressed by Turin's public prosecution department which finished the investigation on this accident in record time. For the first time for a deadly industrial accident, an employer is accused of voluntary manslaughter. (Ref. 080248)
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On March 31, Thyssenkrupp and the families of the seven victims of the deadly accident which hit the employees of the Terni factory will attempt a mandatory conciliation. Meanwhile, the group’s management signed, at the Ministry for Economic Development, an agreement with the trade unions and the public authorities concerning the permanent shutdown of the industry and which places 100 employees under a social damper which pays unemployment benefits for two years (cassa integrazione straordinari

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