Ex-ILVA worker has heart attack and dies at Taranto plant

(ANSA) - TARANTO, FEB 26 - A 38-year-old blast furnace worker at the former ILVA steel plant run by ArcelorMittal at Taranto on Friday had a heart attack and died before going onto the job there.
    Francesco Tomai was in the changing room at the sprawling plant putting on his work clothes when the cardiac arrest struck, local union sources said.
    An attempt to revive him proved vain.
    UILM union leader Rocco Palombella said the death had come at "such a difficult time for the future of the ex-ILVA plant", which is Europe's largest steel plant employing over 25,000 workers.
    AreclorMittal has appealed against a recent court ruling ordering it to close down the blast furnaces at Taranto because of the harmful impact of emissions on the health of local residents.
    Emissions from the factory have been linked to a higher than normal rate of cancers in the area, especially child tumours.
    (ANSA).