CC OO reporting five deaths from work with asbestos and investigates 12 cases of cancer

Three judgments condemn Izar Gijón Naval and deaths resulting from carcinogenic material, and two, to Arcelor and disability reports Tenneco by

Five sentences, one firm, have condemned Izar Gijón, Naval Gijón, Aceralia, and Tenneco Automotive Reymosa by as many cancers in their factories Gijón by exposure to carcinogens. Three naval workers have died from exposure to asbestos. The other two cases are incapable of inhaling asbestos, nickel and chromium. CC OO complaint Asturias is an autonomous community where more deaths are caused by occupational diseases. In 2004 there were 546 deaths. The union is investigating a dozen other cancers in various companies.

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The CCOO union released statements yesterday condemning five public sector companies of the metal in Gijón by workers’ deaths or disabilities caused by exposure to carcinogens in the respective factories, which in four of these cases was asbestos.

One of these judgments and is firm, after the Supreme Court has dismissed an action that Izar Gijón filed against the sentence which condemned him to pay compensation of 100,000 euros to the family of José María Aguado worker, worker and carpenter subcontractors naval Izar , who died of pleural mesothelioma worker exposure to asbestos. The company has been convicted of moral damages to the worker for the suffering of illness and death.

The other four statements are not yet final. Izar Gijón has also been convicted in 2006 in first instance by the death of another worker (assistant carpenter, boilermaker and welder) for a lung cancer caused by contact with asbestos.

Another sentence has been issued against Naval Gijón by the death of a boilermaker and welder by exposure to asbestos suffered a pulmonary neoplasm.

The contract Reymosa and Aceralia (as a company principal) were sentenced last week with a surcharge on the benefits to a worker who has been granted an absolute incapacity asbestosis (a chronic lung disease) caused by asbestos. The affected performing maintain on BFs in Gijón, where the joints of the sinter and steam pipes of asbestos cord.

It has also been condemned by Tenneco Automotive and permanent incapacity of a worker who suffered a vacum squamous cell carcinoma of exposure to chromium, nickel and other chemicals in the factory Gijon, producing nasopharyngeal cancers. The worker is treating sequelae were followed to remove the cancer.
The common denominator in all these cases is the lack of preventive measures in their respective companies. In the case of José María Aguado, this work is dedicated to cover the walls of the vessels, which used asbestos board had to cut into spaces too small, without an aspiration of asbestos dust, nor was he provided the worker specific masks or clothing. The naval carpenter died in 2001. The sentence for the death of another worker of Izar said how it used to cover the asbestos cord doors by cutting knife, with no protective equipment until 2000. The tinker of Naval Gijón died more than 20 years was exposed to asbestos, without having undergone any specific medical examination.
Why all these cases have been detected in Gijon? Irene Saavedra, occupational health technician CCOO de Asturias, explains that there are two reasons. On the one hand, the location of shipbuilding industry in Gijón, a sector in which there were high exposures to asbestos until the use of this substance was banned in Spain in 2002 (in Sweden in 1976 and was banned in the rest of Europe in 1997 ) “because the company did everything possible to delay the ban. In addition, more cases are detected in Gijon also explained in the union for “action CCOO union is very active in this respect in Arcelor and shipbuilding.” It was the union workers who sent in several of the cases reviewed, the National Institute of Silicosis. Many more workers die in Asturias without knowing who suffer an occupational disease.

In fact, says CC OO deaths leads Asturias in Spain by carcinogenic substances at work. The union workers stood at 546 deaths in the Asturias in 2004 by occupational diseases, a figure well above the official ones.

Saavedra stressed that “the sectors in Asturias with increased presence of chemicals that are carcinogens, mutagens and hormone-disrupting are the industry, the construction industry, blast furnaces, pharmaceutical, education, wood, plastics , cleaning and automotive workshops.

Asturias is close to Madrid, Catalonia, Andalusia and Valencia Euskadi one of the regions with the highest mortality rate from pleural cancer and lung cancer. From CC OO requires’ response to this epidemic are suffering thousands of workers will Asturian dying from this cause.

Besides the five sentences for cancer in factories Gijón, CC OO twelve other cases now under investigation in Asturias: Arcelor, Izar, Duro Felguera and Renfe. Of these, six workers are now dead and five others are sick.

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