Company charged with manslaughter over workers' asbestos deaths - DutchNews.nl

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The Public Prosecution Service will prosecute asbestos cement factory Eternit for the deaths of two former employees and a partner. It is alleged that it failed to protect employees sufficiently against exposure to asbestos fibres for decades.

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It has been almost six years since Jacqueline Averdijk filed a complaint against her late husband's former employer. Today it was announced that the Public Prosecution Service will prosecute the company Eternit for the death of Paul Averdijk and two others. "I can't be happy of course, but it is satisfying." Eternit makes building materials. The company from Goor processed fine asbestos fibers in them for years, until this was banned in 1993. Em…

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It is good that Eternit is being prosecuted legally, according to former employees and residents of Goor. Whether manslaughter is the correct charge is doubted. The Public Prosecution Service considers the corrugated sheet manufacturer from the Twente city responsible for the deaths of at least two former employees and a partner of one of them.