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Death of carpenter from asbestos exposure highlights present risk
A Gloucestershire Coroner has recorded a verdict of death by industrial disease on James Bredin a carpenter who cut asbestos sheets in the 1960s and died almost 50 years later later. His son told the inquest that Mr Bredin ”cut asbestos sheets with a handsaw to fit backing plates to fires”.
Pathologist, Dr Richard Bryan, undertook a post mortem that found 32,421 fibres of asbestos per gram of dry lung tissue – a “relatively low” level but higher than would be found in someone who had never been exposed to asbestos at work. Cause of death: bronchial pneumonia due to mesothelioma.