The operator died in November 2018 of lung cancer after inhaling asbestos for years at his job.
The companies Cofivacasa and Sidenor have been ordered to compensate the family of a worker who died of lung cancer with about 176,000 euros after inhaling asbestos for years at his job, as reported by the Association of Victims of Asbestos from Euskadi (Asviamie).
Asviamie has explained in a statement that the employee worked at Pedro Orbegozo-Acenor de Hernani from 1968 until its closure and, subsequently, transferred his activity to the Basauri plant, which was acquired by Sidenor SL Cofivacasa.
The same source has specified that the worker was diagnosed in August 2018 with lung cancer from which he died in November of that same year.
In July 2019, the widowhood benefit derived from occupational disease was recognized for the operator’s wife.
Following Osalan’s investigation, the deceased was included in the file of workers possibly exposed to asbestos.
Asviamie has asked the convicted companies to assume “responsibility for the damage caused without multiplying the suffering with their resistance to enforce the sentences.”
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