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Asbestos contributes to death of ex-scaffolder
A former scaffolder, whose colleagues threw asbestos
'about like snowballs', died from a combination of natural and industrial diseases, a coroner's court has ruled.
77-year-old John Edmed died in Ipswich Hospital on September 26th 2005 and his physician, Dr Douglas Seaton, noted that
he had suffered from high blood pressure and recurrent strokes as well as the effects of "undoubted exposure to respirable
asbestos dust."
An inquest heard that
Mr Edmed had been fit and healthy until his health started to deteriorate in June 2002, and a post mortem concluded that
he died from a number of health problems including heart disease, dementia and
asbestosis.
John's wife, Primrose, told the hearing that her husband had worked with
asbestos
years ago but there had been no health and safety procedures in place. She explained how, unaware of the risks
asbestos could cause to their health,
"They threw it around like snowballs."
Summing up, Suffolk coroner Dr Peter Dean said,
"It is difficult to be certain how each disease combined to cause a death.
"It would be wrong to come back with a verdict of just natural causes. Mr Edmed died from the combined effects of natural
and industrial diseases."
It is unknown if Mr Edmed's family are planning to make a
compensation claim
against his former employers.
