ThyssenKrupp CSA to invest $60 million to reduce dust emission in Brazil.

ThyssenKrupp CSA's board has approved investments of 100 million Reais ($60 million) to implement
several measures aimed at reducing the plant's dust emissions in Santa Cruz city, in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro
state

ThyssenKrupp CSA's board has approved investments of 100 million Reais ($60 million) to implement
several measures aimed at reducing the plant's dust emissions in Santa Cruz city, in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro
state.

The measures will "prevent occasional emissions of graphite dust reaching the communities surrounding the
steel complex," the company said on Wednesday.

Among other projects CSA will install a dedusting system in the emergency wells of the 5 million tpy slab
caster. This is expected to be concluded in eight months.

Once the system begins to operate, CSA will decide on the installation of enclosure and dedusting devices in
the plant's pig iron plant or the addition of a pig iron granulation system instead.

"The emergency well and the [pig iron] caster have been identified as the major sources which can, under
certain operating conditions, produce and release the graphite dust," CSA said.

A series of other measures will be taken, including the construction and installation of a second heavy crane
for the transport of pig iron to the steel converters.

CSA expects to conclude the necessary studies regarding these investments within six weeks.

The announcement came one month after the company was fined for a second time and was subject to a
"series of punitive measures" by the Rio de Janeiro state environment authorities because of air pollution
(MB 6 Jan).

By Juan Weik

Prosecutor wants 16.5-year jail sentence for ThyssenKrupp

Acciai Speciali Terni ceo
Turin city's prosecutor has requested Harald Espenhahn (pictured), ceo of ThyssenKrupp Acciai Speciali
Terni, be sentenced to 16.5 years in jail if found responsible for the deaths of seven workers killed at the
company's Turin plant in 2007, the public prosecutor's office told MB on December 15.

The case is the first time that a charge of murder has been demanded for an industrial accident in the country

The prosecutor also requested four other executives currently on trial in Turin serve 13.5 years for
manslaughter and a fifth executive serve nine years, Italian newswire AdnKronos reported.

The prosecutor demanded the court fine ThyssenKrupp Acciai Speciali Terni €1.5 million ($2 million), ban it
from advertising its products for a year, and exclude it from all tax breaks and subsidies, according to
AdnKronos.

Fire chief dies during ThyssenKrupp Turin fire investigation

The ThyssenKrupp Turin fire, which killed seven workers, has been compounded by further tragedy
The ThyssenKrupp Turin fire, which killed seven workers, has been compounded by further tragedy. Giorgio
Mazzini, Italy's fire chief, died last week while taking part in the investigation into the cause of the blaze.

Mazzini died from a brain aneurysm, while answering questions about the fire from a local Turin magistrate.

ThyssenKrupp Acciai Speciali Terni (TK AST) is still investigating the causes of the fire but has already
confirmed that the blaze broke out on one of its treatment lines.

Output at the Turin had been reduced to 30 percent of its previous capacity due to the relocation of the site's
operations from Turin to TK AST's Terni site as part of a €300 million investment programme, but the
steelmaker said it has "continued to invest as before in maintenance and servicing of the equipment" (MB
Jan 2).

Workplace safety in spotlight after teen death

ANSA) - Rome, August 8 - Workplace safety regained the spotlight on Wednesday after a 16-year-old
construction worker was killed - the third such death in the last two days.

    Christian Schwingshackl, an Italian student temporarily employed during the summer school break, was
crushed to death when the roof of a house being renovated in the northern town of San Candido caved in.

    Another worker, 35-year-old Angelo Busiello, died when he fell from a roof of a warehouse he was
repairing in Mugnano, near Naples. Meanwhile, more than 4,000 workers at the Thyssen Krupp steel firm in
Terni, central Italy, held a one-day strike to protest against the death of 51-year-old colleague Mauro
Zannone on Tuesday.

    Labour ministry spokesman Cosimo Torlo said a new law drafted jointly by the health and labour
ministries would help boost safety in the workplace. The law includes measures to combat illegal labour,
protect immigrant workers and tighten control of the subcontracting chain.

    Lower-tier subcontractors, particularly in the construction field, frequently seek to contain costs by hiring
illegal labourers and skimping on safety regulations. Some 85% of job fatalities occur in the subcontracting
sector, officials say. Torlo said the law would earmark funds for an additional 300 workplace inspectors.  A
recently-published report by the socioeconomic think tank Censis found that 38% of Italian companies are
dangerous places for workers.

  Most were industrial companies based in the north, Censis said. The report noted that 27.2% of workplaces
in the south were totally lacking in safety measures for their employees. Work-related accidents cause an
average three deaths per day in Italy.

    According to official figures, 1,280 workers were killed in job-related incidents in 2005 while 939,566
workers were injured - a drop of 2.8% compared to 2004.

    In agriculture, 4.3% fewer incidents were reported in 2005 compared to 2004, and 5% fewer in the
construction industry. Injuries among non-EU workers in Italy fell 2.8% in 2005 over the previous year,
official figures say.

    According to Inail, a state agency which handles compulsory insurance coverage for workers, the injury
rate per 100,000 workers in Italy was 3.237 in 2005 - lower than both the euro zone average of 3.789 and the
European Union average of 3.334 (EU 15). But Inail sounded the alarm over statistics relating to
construction industry deaths and accidents in 2006.

    It highlighted a 35% increase in fatalities compared to 2005 and a 16% rise in the number of deaths among
non-Italian workers - 42 against 36 in 2005. Anmil, an association representing injured workers, protests that
the official figures are not representative, arguing that in Italy there is a tendency to report only the most
serious accidents.

    Inail estimates that at least 200,000 accidents suffered by people working off the books fail to be reported
every year.

    Trade unions have repeatedly expressed concern that workplace injuries and even deaths among illegal
non-European Union workers, particularly in the construction and agricultural sectors often do not find their
way into the official statistics. They also accuse the state of not investing enough in the workplace inspection
system, saying that the number of inspectors falls far short of the number required and that those that do exist
do not have the resources to do their job properly.