A total compensation of one million and 300 thousand euros : this is what the Court of Rome established which condemned the Ministry of Defense for the death of the NCO Camillo Limatola , Neapolitan, who died on 1 August 2013, at the age of 59-year-old due to asbestos exposure mesothelioma .
Limatola was an employee of the Navy between 1973 and 1978, in the military base of "La Maddalena" , in Sardinia. After having worked in the Naples base, the city of which he was originally from and where his widow still lives, he had been embarked on the cruiser Vittorio Veneto. Unfortunately, in 2011 he was diagnosed with mesothelioma which left him no way out.
Judge Claudio Patruno, in the sentence handed down on July 27, explained that the documents show the frequent presence of asbestos "in the environments in which the Limatola was employed both on board the ships in which it was embarked". The judge highlighted "the lack of supply of coveralls, gloves and filter masks " and also the lack of "adequate air purification systems, or safe mineral isolation systems".
"The activity of the crew on board - writes the judge - also took place in rather narrow rooms , which favored a high concentration of asbestos fibers in the air".
Before his death Limatola had managed to obtain the recognition of the victim of duty and the liquidation of the special donation and the due acknowledgments to family members, obtained after numerous warnings from the president of the National Asbestos Observatory, lawyer. Ezio Bonanni, family lawyer.
"Even in the headquarters of the base of the Navy of Naples - reads the device - the mineral had been widely used , both in compact and fibrous form , and even here the personnel worked without adequate protection. The situation of the Naples base is however, it was confirmed by the investigation documentation of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Padua ".
