Asbestos death without direct exposure
A mother-of-two and fitness fanatic has died after being exposed to asbestos through her father’s work clothes, an inquest has heard. Tracey Carpenter, 43, died in November last year at Kettering General Hospital where she was being treated for mesothelioma. She had contracted the disease despite never knowingly being exposed to the material.
The Coroner read a statement written by Tracey before she died in which she said she thought she could have been exposed to asbestos while at school, at Corby Motors or when she helped her father with his laundry. Her father, Charles Fairey, died in 1980, aged 56. He worked as a crane driver at a British Steel plant from 1956 to 1980. Tracey remembered her father coming home from work wearing dusty clothing when she was a child and helping with the laundry, which included his work clothes. Solicitors representing her had also been contacted by Clifford Gunn, who worked with her father and also has been diagnosed with the disease.
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