What caused the tumor that hit him may have been that cell phone he used massively for work purposes .
For this reason, the Court of Appeal of Turin confirmed the decision of the Court of Aosta which had sentenced Inail to pay the pension for occupational disease to a worker , now retired.
The man, 63 years old, specialized technician of the Cogne Acciai Speciali, between 1995 and 2008 used the mobile phone for more than ten thousand hours , with an average of 2.5 hours a day. Precisely this prolonged use of the cell phone would be one of the contributing causes of the benign intracranial tumor of which he is affected, with a consequent "left deafness, paresis of the facial nerve, balance disorder and depressive syndrome".
In 2020 the Court of Aosta had recognized the causal link between the use of mobile phones and the onset of neuroma of the acoustic nerve , but Inail had appealed for new advice.
The Court had appointed Professor Roberto Albera, full professor of Otolaryngologist at the University of Turin as consultant: "It is clear that at the moment the etiology of acoustic neuroma is not known - says the technical consultant - but that among the concurrent factors there is exposure to radiofrequencies if the exposure dose was of sufficient magnitude ".
The man, who earned a monthly income of about 400 euros, is represented by the lawyers Stefano Bertone, Chiara Ghibaudo and Jacopo Giunta of Studio Ambrosio & Commodo. "This is an important sentence written by scientists among scientists - explain the lawyers - in which the role of jurists has been marginal, and which demonstrates that radio frequencies can cause a tumor ".
(Unioneonline / D)
