Following the death of a UK victim who had mesothelioma, an open verdict has been recorded according to a recent report. The seventy year old man from Windsor died in July of this year as a result of the asbestos cancer.
Reginald Tinmouth died in hospital after contracting the cancer. After leaving school he is said to have worked on a farm for three years from 1954 onwards. He went on to work for a number of companies as a sheet metal worker, which is a job that is linked to exposure to asbestos.
Tinmouth had told family and friends that although he did work for some years in the sheet metal industry he could not remember ever working with or being exposed to asbestos, which is thought to be the main cause of this form of cancer.
The coroner that dealt with his case could also find no conclusive proof of exposure to asbestos, and therefore recorded an open verdict at the inquest. The pathologist said that he died from a malignant mesothelioma known as pleural mesothelioma.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackSeveral years ago I wrote a column based on the obit of an American Navy vet who had served on the Nautilus -America’s first nuclear sub foray beneath the North Pole. The vet lived a comparitively long life. As I recall he died at about age 80. What struck me though was in the obit it said he died of mesotheliomia. I asked a friend, a former Brit nuke sub captain how this could happen since I associated all asbestos-related deaths with mid-50’s industrial applications. He said it had to do with re-breathing. On a sub, nuclear or otherwise, all heat pipes, and they are many, are wrapped with asbestos insulation. That in itself is bad enough. But in a closed and sealed re-breathing environment the danger is multiplied substantially. I wish I could find the column I wrote.
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