admin | February 20, 2010
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 [...]
admin | February 19, 2010
It may surprise you to know that it is nothing to do with fireproofing. In fact until the mid-1980s, the Artex ceiling coating was made with white asbestos to strengthen it. Its function being similar to that of the glass fibres that strengthen the plastic in fiberglass. This means that only old artex manufactured by [...]
admin | February 18, 2010
The Berkshire Asbestos Support Group is dedicated to providing support, advice and information to sufferers of asbestos related illnesses and their families. Join them on the first Tuesday of every month at Reading Town Hall. At these meetings they can provide support, advice and assistance on:
what benefits you and your family may be entitled to;
help [...]
admin | January 2, 2010
Many former workers may be living with a cancer time bomb due to the place they were employed years before, said a coroner at the inquest of a man who died from an industrial disease. Albert Sargood, 71, from The Rise in Warfield Park, Warfield, died in on August 8 from the disease peritoneal mesothelioma, [...]
admin | July 10, 2009
Exposure to asbestos in the workplace has been recognised as a danger since 1955. But there has also been a steady stream of cases that show risk also extended to the home. This has included wives who washed their husband’s dusty overalls and children who helped are being diagnosed with the asbestos linked mesothelioma, a [...]
admin | July 9, 2009
George Barnes worked as a shipfitter at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard for 25 years, from 1967 to 1992. In 2005 he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, a condition he blamed on exposure to asbestos at the yard. A San Francisco jury agreed and awarded Barnes and his wife, both 60 years old, $10.3 [...]
admin | June 29, 2009
The problem with asbestos is the fibres. They break off at the slightest provocation. Needle sharp and shaped like spears, they can be inhaled by the thousands with each breath. Some doctors belive that even one fibre, lodged in the wrong place, can eventually kill a person. While many of the fibres find their way [...]
