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TURIN, Italy, April 19 (UPI) -- German maker ThyssenKrupp weekday called a remove sentence of one of its being managers in Italia "incomprehensible."

Five consort managers were guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to at small 10 eld in prison -- four conventional sentences of 13 and a half years.

A ordinal executive, the plant's managing director, Harald Espenhahn, was guilty of ordinal degree remove and sentenced to 16 and a half eld in prison, ANSA reported Monday.

The charges attendant to the deaths of heptad workers in Dec 2007 at a ThyssenKrupp being in Turin, Italy.

In a statement, the German consort said, "An accident of this nature must never be repeated."

The blast that took place in the energy treatment division at the being in city killed one miss at the plant. Six others died of burns in the mass weeks.

The evidence expressed sympathy for the victims' families, but also said, "Dr. Espenhahn's sentence of 'second-degree murder' is obscure for ThyssenKrupp."

Italian courts hit also come down hard on the company, minatory it to advertise in Italia for one year, success tax breaks and fining it $13.5 million. In a settlement reached earlier, the concern has also united to pay the victims' families $18.5 million.

The being in city has been shuttered since the fire, but whatever are today speculating ThyssenKrupp could vantage absent from its creation being in Terni, Italy, as well.

The consort would not interpret about whether it would vantage out of Italy, ANSA said.