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Dying at work in Italy. From the burning of the of the ThyssenKrupp factory to the fireworks factory in Pescara

Unsafe conditions, workers who risk their lives, as well as firefighters. In the last few years there has been much talk about deaths of workers trapped in fires that broke out in factories. Six years after the fire in Turin, the families of the seven workers who died are still waiting for the decision of the Supreme Court

ROME - It 's seven dead and three badly burned - all Chinese nationals - the provisional balance of the fire that broke out this morning in a textile factory in Prato, in the area of Macrolotto. The burnt are a young woman, in less serious conditions, and two adults on the other hand are in intensive care. A tragedy that is similar to the one of the fire in 2007 that killed seven workers at ThyssenKrupp.

The fire at ThyssenKrupp. In the night between 5th  and 6th  December 2007, shortly after one in the morning , on line 5 of the steel in Turin, seven workers were hit by a spill of hot oil , which caught fire. Colleagues called the fire brigade , ambulances arrived at 1 .15 and the wounded were transferred to the hospital. At 4 am the first worker died, his name was Antonio Schiavone. In the following days, from the 7th  to 30th  December 2007 died the six others seriously injured by oil boiling. They were called Joseph Demasi , Angel Laurin , Robert Scola , Rosario Rodino , March Rocco and Bruno Santino . Among the workers involved in the accident, there was only one survivor and eyewitness, Antonio Boccuzzi. He had been working at the Thyssen for 13 years, was part of the trade union Uilm , his role was central in the complaint of the faults of the company. The Assize Court of Turin sentenced the CEO of ThyssenKrupp , Harald Espenhahn to 16 and a half years ' imprisonment, voluntary manslaughter. Six years after the fire at Thyssenkrupp in Turin the  families of the seven workers who died that night are still waiting for the decision of the Supreme Court on whom they consider responsible for their own personal hell.

Pescara , a fireworks factory explodes . A terrifying roar, created by at least 10 tons of gunpowder that killed three people in the family Di Giacomo , the owner Mauro , 45, and his brother Frederico , 39, plus another relative Roberto , 50 years. Above half the province of Pescara an immense and impressive 'atomic' white mushroom rose in the sky. Ambulances, firefighters, rescue and fire sirens and helicopters headed for Villa Cypress , the agricultural area of ​​Città S. Angelo , provincial road 49 towards the hill on fire. With them Alessio , the 22 year old son Mauro . On the spot he wanted to reach the area. He was hit by the second explosion . The President of the Republic Giogio Napolitano sent a message of condolence.

The factory Rindi . One worker died and two of his fellow were in reserved prognosis in the burnt unit of the San Martino Hospital in Genoa . This was the budget of a fire exploded in July 27, 1992 in the factory of industrial adhesives " Rindi " in Signa , near Florence , which dealt also with highly explosive materials . The victim's name was Daniel Falconi, 25 years old.

Workers burnt in Lafumet  in Villastellone . At about two in the afternoon of March 26^th  2012 some North African workers going back  to work from their break for prayer, were overwhelmed by an explosion coming from the warehouses of the factory where they worked, the ' Lafumet ' in Villastellone , a municipality on the outskirts of Turin , a company that dealt with the disposal of special waste and that had 90 employees , mostly foreigners . Soon after there were other loud and violent explosions. The blaze swept fully five workers from the Maghreb. Readily transported to the department of CTO Turin, the five North African reported large burns over most of the bodies, faces, hands and arms. "You run the risk of burning alive for a thousand Euros per month ," said Mohamed Asadi , one of the first workers to help his injured colleagues . "Working in there is very dangerous - sadded Francisco Vazquez - we have been asking for an extractor fan for months for the department. The company has never answered ."

The factory in San Mauro a Signa. On April 15, 2012, a fire broke out in the afternoon in a factory of electroplating baths, in San Mauro a Signa.

The fire of Scandicci. On 29 June 2012, a fire partly destroyed a former paint factory in Scandicci (Florence) . The fire broke out around 8 am in the morning. The column of smoke remained visible from several kilometers away .

The factory Afragola . Firefighters worked a whole night to tame the fire broke out August 21, 2012 in a factory Afragola and the eastern outskirts of Naples.

Fire broke out at polymer Apollinaris . On 17 July 2013, a column of black smoke visible in the sky from miles away developed to a terrible fire which broke out at 13.30 in a factory to Polymer Ltd. , headquartered in St. Apollinaris , a fraction of Rovigo. The company was in charge of the recycling of high and low density polyethylene and linear polyethylene ( film industry and extrusion ) . With its plant was able to convert plastic wast , in granules of polyethylene regenerated for reuse as raw material for the production of new articles and products . The municipal police invited (through speakers placed on patrol cars)the  residents of St. Apollinaris to turn off the gas and the light and leave their homes within a mile from the fire. In Rovigo in the meantime, the pool was evacuated on Viale Porta Po. Inside the plant that caught fire there was the polythene in granules . The Arpav excluded the danger of dioxin.