Sidenor and Legazpi City Council have been sentenced to compensate a worker for asbestos
The High Court of Justice of the Basque Country (TSJPV) has rejected the company's and the City Council's appeals and confirmed the penalty of €376,305 for exposure to asbestos.
The High Court of Justice of the Basque Country (TSJPV) has rejected the appeals filed by CIE Legazpi, Sidenor Aceros Especiales and the Legazpi City Council and has upheld the ruling obliging them to compensate an asbestos-affected worker with €376,305.
The Association of Asbestos Victims of the Basque Country (Asviamie) today reported that the Social Division of the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country has upheld the ruling of the Eibar Court rejecting the allegations of companies and the City Council.
The man was diagnosed with a pleural mesothelioma in October 2023. The worker began his career in 1970 at the defunct Patricio Echeverria factory, where he manipulated furnaces isolated with asbestos, without protection or risk information, according to Asviamie.
Between 1979 and 2016, he worked as a water manager at Legazpi City Council and participated in fibrocement pipe repairs without being aware of the risk or carrying out a specific health check.
In August 2024, the National Social Security Institute recognized him as an absolute incapacity for occupational illness.
Asviamie noted that the City Council argued in its appeal that exposure to asbestos had been "impossible to determine," while the companies said "exposure had not been verified" and that there was no regulation at the time.
The Association insists that the regulations for the prevention of damage caused by asbestos already existed before 1982 and that the companies failed to comply, so the TSJPV has dismissed the appeals and confirmed the conviction.
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