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Asbestos In The News
May 2016
For the month of May, we bring you a round-up of reports of asbestos appearing in the news.
- York Press
YORK'S asbestos timebomb has been linked to the death of another former Carriageworks employee. At an inquest, York's senior coroner Jonathan Leach ruled that exposure to asbestos dust was a "significant factor" in the death of Don Welby. Mr Welby, of Canham Grove, York, died on December 20 last year, aged 84, after suffering from lung cancer. - Manchester Evening News
A former teacher who died of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos is thought to have inhaled toxic dust in the classrooms where he worked. Bernard Dawson spent more than half a century teaching maths and science at secondary schools in Greater Manchester and Lancashire. But it was only after retiring that he was diagnosed with the incurable cancer mesothelioma. - Plymouth Herald
Workers "downed tools" at a major housing development after five lorryloads of soil possibly contaminated with asbestos were dumped on the site. The incident happened last Wednesday, (may 4) and is the latest twist in a long-running saga. The soil with its potentially deadly cargo was trucked from the former Fremington Army Camp in North Devon to a new development, Anchorwood Bank, in Barnstaple. - Gazette & Herald
A former building manager died of asbestos-related cancer, an inquest has heard. Ralph Hubert Rogers, 89, of Heron Close, Thornton-le-Dale, died on November 15. Dr Juliet Walker, who had performed a post-mortem examination, said the cause of death was candidal pneumonia and mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos inhalation. At the inquest in Scarborough on Wednesday, the coroner Michael Oakley said that he recorded, on the balance of probability, a conclusion of death by industrial disease.
