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A devoted husband and father, Peter Wilson, 61, became another victim to mesothelioma in August after breathing in deadly asbestos dust particles.
Coroner for South and East Cumbria, Ian Smith yesterday recorded a verdict of industrial disease. The hearing heard the Mr. Wilson had come into contact with the deadly asbestos dust whilst he was working at Oxley Developments in Ulverston.
Mr. Wilson had held various roles from 1965 to 2008 including apprentice machine setter, machine setter and latterly machine shop manager. On hearing the verdict, Mr. Wilson’s widow, Marian said:
“I am satisfied though the inquest was very traumatizing; Peter was a real family man – full of fun. He was one in a million and a very special man.”
“To lose Peter has been absolutely devastating to us all and it’s difficult to imagine life without him. It’s hard to comprehend that he worked incredibly hard all his life and that part of his work is what took him from us. He didn’t work in a trade we as a family associated asbestos illness with – you tend to think its more manual workers in shipyards don’t you?”
A WIDOWER has paid tribute to his “lovely wife” who died after being exposed to asbestos at school.
Mabel Midgley inhaled the deadly substance, from the nearby Acre Mill, while attending Old Town Primary School, where boys would “throw it around like snow balls”.
The 72-year-old Mytholmroyd housewife said in a video statement before she died: “I remember the school was covered in white dust, which could only have been asbestos.
“I remember it would be quite dusty in the playground when we played there. I remember seeing asbestos in the gutters and fluffy white bits of asbestos in the air. They boys would make snow balls out of asbestos and would throw them around.”
Mabel was born in Todmorden in 1938 and moved to Olden Town, Hebden Bridge, when her father got a job in the area, She attended Old Town Primary School between 1945 and 1949 where she inhaled dust that was omitted from an extractor fan at the nearby mill.
AN elderly Kidderminster man died after being exposed to asbestos during his working life.
John Roblett, of Bruce Road, became unwell and was admitted to hospital where his condition deteriorated and he died on April 7 – two days after his 84th birthday.
A verdict of industrial disease was recorded at an inquest into his death.
Source: Halesowen News
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A PENSIONER exposed to asbestos died because of it.
But Eric Rothery, 81, was not aware that he had been exposed to asbestos during his working life.
Mr Rothery, of Elm Tree Close, Liversedge, was a driver and fork-lift truck driver for the former BBA factory, based at Cleckheaton.
An inquest into his death at Bradford Coroner’s Court yesterday heard that he had come into contact with the material.
In a statement read out in court, his wife Jean Rothery said that he had a CT scan in November, 2010, which found asbestos scarring.
She said: “He never knew how he had been exposed to asbestos.”
Mr Rothery had acute airways disease and pneumonia and was being treated at Dewsbury and District Hospital. He had heart failure and heart disease, which were listed as the cause of his death.
Coroner Roger Whittaker said: “I am satisfied that as a driver required to collect from the former BBA factory and working as a fork-lift truck driver that he was exposed to asbestos in the work place.”
He recorded a verdict of death by industrial disease.
Source: The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
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A man who was exposed to asbestos while working in shipyards and the Merchant Navy died of industrial disease, a coroner has concluded.
Leslie James Clingan, of George Street, Whitehaven, died at home on May 21 last year at the age of 72.
An inquest heard that he died of malignant mesothelioma (cancer of the pleura, which is the covering of the lungs) as a result of exposure to the deadly asbestos fibres. He was diagnosed in 2006.
An underlying problem which would have contributed to, but not caused his death, was heart disease, added David Roberts, coroner for north and west Cumbria.
Mr Clingan worked for Swan Hunter, in Newcastle, in the 1950s. He served an apprenticeship in marine engineering where he worked in confined spaces alongside other tradesmen.
He was not required to handle asbestos but worked in close proximity to the laggers who did work with the substance.
In a statement from the late Mr Clingan he said they wore overalls but there were no shower facilities or protection masks.
For about 10 years he then worked as a marine engineer in the Merchant Navy where most of his time was spent in the engine room. He was required to carry out repairs, about once a month, which involved removing and then replacing asbestos lagging.
The coroner said that in those days the dangers of asbestos were not known and that no precautions were taken.
Mr Clingan, who was born in Newcastle, is survived by his wife Elizabeth, a former primary school teacher, and three children.
Later in life he worked for a number of other companies, including at Sellafield, from where he retired as a fitter at the age of 60.
Source: News & Star
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A FORMER harbourmaster who died at the Joseph Weld Hospice in Dorchester had a history of asbestos exposure, an inquest was told.
Derek Alan Watson died on March 10 at the age of 82 from a pulmonary edema and bronchial pneumonia caused by mesothelioma, a disease commonly attributed to asbestos exposure.
An inquest into his death at County Hall in Dorchester heard that Mr Watson worked from the age of 22 to 23 at a garden nursery in Buckinghamshire, where he was exposed to asbestos as he constructed boilers and conservatories.
Dr Gerrard Phillips, a respiratory consultant at Dorset County Hospital, said Mr Watson was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2009 after experiencing abdominal problems since 2006.
Coroner’s officer Andrew Nineham said that Mr Watson’s son Douglas had informed him of his father’s employment history.
He said as a young man Mr Watson worked at a nursery in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, where he insulated the boilers by plastering on asbestos.
West Dorset coroner Michael Johnston said: “It is clear from the background history that Mr Watson had erected his greenhouses and installed the boilers and had himself lagged these using dry asbestos.
“He appears to have both inhaled and probably swallowed the asbestos fibres.
“Many years later, approximately 50 years, he has developed this cancer which in a very high proportion of cases is attributable to asbestos exposure.”
Mr Johnston recorded a verdict that Mr Watson died from an industrial disease.
Source: This Is Dorset
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A joiner who was exposed to asbestos at work, died as a result of an industrial disease, an inquest heard.
Ernest Gittins, aged 70, had worked as a joiner for 44 years after leaving school aged 16. His wife of 25 years, Irene, learned that he had been exposed to asbestos when she spoke to former work colleagues, who attended his funeral.
Mrs Gittins, of Roxton Close, Horwich, told Bolton Coroners Court: “Other people told me that he used to cut asbestos sheets with an electric saw. “He did not wear any protective clothing, as there was nothing then, they said.”
He became unwell in January this year, and doctors thought he had pulled a muscle in his shoulder. In May he and his wife went to the Isle of Wight to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary, and he was in pain and could not lie down.
But it was only a short time before his death that the family was told that he had malignant mesothelioma, a type of cancer.
Assistant deputy coroner Peter Watson recorded a verdict of death caused by industrial disease. He said: “Clearly he was a very hard working man for many years, working in conditions that would perhaps not be acceptable in this day and age.”
Source: The Bolton News
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A WOMAN who died of asbestos-related cancer was pursuing a legal claim for the disease, an inquest heard. Margaret Dyball, of Quilters Close, Holland on Sea, had worked as a clerk for Upminster Garages Ltd where she believed she was exposed to asbestos.
In a statement she wrote for the legal claim before she died, she said walking to and from her office across a “dirty and dusty” workshop had exposed her to asbestos. Mrs Dyball, whose family did not attend the inquest in Chelmsford, was admitted to Colchester General Hospital on August 27 with shortness of breath and a chronic cough.
An x-ray showed fluid on the lungs and she died three days later, aged 66.
She had been previously admitted to the hospital, and diagnosed with mesothelioma last year. A post mortem examination concluded she died as a result of mesothelioma and exposure to asbestos. Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray said Mrs Dyball had died as a result of industrial disease.
Source: Clacton Gazette
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