Italy: One dead, nine injured in fire at ThyssenKrupp plant in Turin
One man died and nine were injured when a fire broke out overnight in a Turin plant of German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp, officials and news reports said Thursday. The men were on night duty inside the plant on the outskirts of Turin, an industrial city in northern Italy, when the blaze broke out at around 1 a.m. (0000 GMT), local police said. It took firefighters about three hours to put out the fire, police said. All injured were hospitalized, with at least three in serious condition, the ANSA news agency said.
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Report: ThyssenKrupp's Turin Mill Fire Deaths Now At 4 -AFP
ROME (AFP)--A fourth worker died Saturday from burns sustained in a fire at German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp AG's (TKA.XE) mill in northern Italy, news reports said.
The latest victim, a 26-year-old man, died in hospital in Turin following the fire Wednesday at the nearby mill which took the lives of three other workers, the ANSA news agency reported.
Three steelworkers with burns over 90% of their bodies remain in hospital in critical condition, the agency said.
Prosecutors have opened a probe into the causes of the fire at the site with workers telling investigators on Thursday that safety measures were slack, ANSA had reported earlier.
The devastating work-related accident has triggered an emotional reaction in Italy.
A minute of silence was held for the Turin fatalities at the premiere of a new production of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" at Milan's La Scala opera house Friday night.
The speaker of Italy's lower house of parliament Fausto Bertinotti urged "a major mobilization to fight work-related accidents" which he called a social scourge.
Social Solidarity Minister Paolo Ferrero said the Italian employers federation, Confindustria, should exclude companies which did not respect safety standards.
Steelworkers in the Turin region are to stage a strike and demonstration on Monday to protest working conditions in the industry, while unions have called for three days of national mourning.
ThyssenKrupp said in July it planned to close the mill in Turin, which produces steel panels for the motor industry, but according to unions around 200 employees still work there in shifts totaling up to 12 hours a day.
Two other people died in work-related accidents Friday, one at a Fiat (F.MI) automaker plant at Cassino, south of Rome, and the other on a construction site in the northern region of Lombardy.
The mass-circulation Corriere della Sera daily said 811 people had been killed in accidents at work in the first eight months of this year, nine more than in the same period of 2006.
According to the Italian Workers Compensation Authority, work accidents caused a total of 1,302 deaths in 2006, compared with 1,274 in 2005.
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One man died and nine were injured when a fire broke out overnight in a Turin plant of German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp, officials and news reports said Thursday. The men were on night duty inside the plant on the outskirts of Turin, an industrial city in northern Italy, when the blaze broke out at around 1 a.m. (0000 GMT), local police said. It took firefighters about three hours to put out the fire, police said. All injured were hospitalized, with at least three in serious condition, the ANSA news agency said.
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Report: ThyssenKrupp's Turin Mill Fire Deaths Now At 4 -AFP
ROME (AFP)--A fourth worker died Saturday from burns sustained in a fire at German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp AG's (TKA.XE) mill in northern Italy, news reports said.
The latest victim, a 26-year-old man, died in hospital in Turin following the fire Wednesday at the nearby mill which took the lives of three other workers, the ANSA news agency reported.
Three steelworkers with burns over 90% of their bodies remain in hospital in critical condition, the agency said.
Prosecutors have opened a probe into the causes of the fire at the site with workers telling investigators on Thursday that safety measures were slack, ANSA had reported earlier.
The devastating work-related accident has triggered an emotional reaction in Italy.
A minute of silence was held for the Turin fatalities at the premiere of a new production of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" at Milan's La Scala opera house Friday night.
The speaker of Italy's lower house of parliament Fausto Bertinotti urged "a major mobilization to fight work-related accidents" which he called a social scourge.
Social Solidarity Minister Paolo Ferrero said the Italian employers federation, Confindustria, should exclude companies which did not respect safety standards.
Steelworkers in the Turin region are to stage a strike and demonstration on Monday to protest working conditions in the industry, while unions have called for three days of national mourning.
ThyssenKrupp said in July it planned to close the mill in Turin, which produces steel panels for the motor industry, but according to unions around 200 employees still work there in shifts totaling up to 12 hours a day.
Two other people died in work-related accidents Friday, one at a Fiat (F.MI) automaker plant at Cassino, south of Rome, and the other on a construction site in the northern region of Lombardy.
The mass-circulation Corriere della Sera daily said 811 people had been killed in accidents at work in the first eight months of this year, nine more than in the same period of 2006.
According to the Italian Workers Compensation Authority, work accidents caused a total of 1,302 deaths in 2006, compared with 1,274 in 2005.
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