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Asbestos Diseases Sneak In – Secondary Exposure!
Research conducted in the last five years consistently shows a worrying increase in the number of claims from individuals who, because of an original lack of asbestos awareness, had inadvertently been exposed to asbestos fibres, and as a result, became terminally ill from contracting asbestosis or mesothelioma.
Asbestos Risk –A Short History
Asbestos is not a product of modern technology. Yet despite the evidence of severe health risks related to exposure to asbestos dating as far back as the first century, the production of products containing asbestos continued to grow until the mid 1970s, with a lack of understanding and awareness that still has fatal consequences today.
A Bristol based company has been prosecuted and fined by the Health and Safety Executive for exposing their workers to asbestos whilst working. Frank Bruce & Company Ltd pleaded guilty in Bristol Magistrates in relation to refurbishment work at Lawrence Hill Industrial Park, Bristol in February 2009.
The Danger of Power Stations
It was reported in Hazards Magazine/Oct/Dec09 that a former power station worker for the CEGB at Skelton Grange suffered a massive blow when not only was he diagnosed with asbestosis but his wife contracted mesothelioma seemingly from cleaning her husbands work clothes.
Directors Held Accountable
The bosses of Stalybridge engineering firm Vernon & Roberts have been ordered to hand over £60,000 to the widow of Frederick Hughes who sadly died of mesothelioma after being exposed to working with asbestos at the firm.