The Cassation hits hard on those who build defective systems or neglect maintenance, causing even fatal damage. The node, over which the client (administrator or individual owner) can also monitor, especially for his own peace of mind, is compliance with the rules on the safety of the use of gas in buildings contained in law 1081/1973, amended by Legislative Decree 23/2019 , according to which all materials, equipment and installations must be made according to the specific rules of good practice, for the safeguarding of safety (Uni-Cig standards, technical specifications drawn up by an EU standardization body and provisions of the EU regulation 2016/426).
The Supreme Court has intervened on the matter with recent rulings which have reiterated the importance of compliance with gas safety regulations, penalizing those responsible. The judge of legitimacy (ordinance 45287/2021) declared inadmissible the appeal of a subject against the sentence that had condemned him for the crimes of disaster and manslaughter of his wife for having unscrewed the gas supply pipe from the kitchen without turn off the tap, causing an explosion.
Another ruling of the Supreme Court (sentence 44944/2021), in the description of the fact, rejected the appeals of some subjects for the death of an employee who had been burned by the explosion of oxygen present in the gas distribution network. The Court held that the subjects were at fault in the supervisory activity and in the non-observance of the safety rules. In particular, the sentence pointed out that the testing of the pipeline should have been preceded by the verification of the existence of any leaks in the system after the relative pressurisation. The subjects were guilty of not making sure that the repair of the system took place safely, after checking for the presence of flammable gases inside it and, in this case, the system should have been emptied before its repair.