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 [...]
