(ANSA) - TARANTO, APR 27 - The gup of the Taranto court Rita Romano has indicted seven people, including executives, former managers and area heads of the former Ilvadi Taranto steel plant (today Acciaierie d'Italia) with accusations of co-operation in murder culpable and willful omission of precaution against accidents at work in relation to the accident on the job that cost the life of 40-year-old crane operator CosimoMassaro on 10 July 2019.
The company ArcelorMittal, charged under the law 231 of 2000 which governs the administrative liability of companies, was also sent to trial.
The worker was in the cockpit of a DM5 crane which broke off at the passage of a whirlwind and fell into the sea in the area of the fourth jutting out of the port used by the iron and steel industry.
The body was recovered three days later by divers.
Late that day, two other cranes collapsed but the two workers who were maneuvering them hurled themselves onto the quay in time, in any case sustaining injuries.
The then director of the steel plant, Stefan Michel Van Campe, ended up on trial;
Vincenzo DeGioia and Carmelo Lucca, division head and area head at the time;
department heads Giuseppe Dinoi, Mauro Guitto and Andrea Dinoi;
and the shift supervisor Teodoro Zezza.
According to the indictment, the defendants did not take adequate measures to prevent the accident, saving on security costs and allowing the company an unfair profit.
Prosecutors Raffaele Graziano and Filomena Di Tursi contest the failure to adopt an evacuation plan from the cranes, some of which were not equipped with the restraint system, the so-called anti-hurricane tongs.
Seven years earlier, in November 2012, another worker, Francesco Zaccaria, died in a similar accident, always during a whirlwind and when the crane fell into the sea.
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