by Russell Worth | Mar 25, 2015 | asbestosis compensation, Claims, Industrial Disease, News, occupational cancers
A Leeds trader has been handed a suspended jail sentence after he was found to be exposing occupants of a property in Bramhope and workers to potentially hazardous levels of asbestos fibres. 49-year-old Clive Raper, trading as Bramley Asbestos Removals, accepted a job...
by Russell Worth | Feb 18, 2015 | asbestosis compensation, Claims, Industrial Disease, News
A Derby man exposed to asbestos dust through his job as a foundry worker had lungs so badly diseased “they were dead”, an inquest has heard. 82-year-old Trevor Dunn was exposed to both asbestos and silicon through cleaning out large furnaces as part of his job....
by Russell Worth | Feb 11, 2015 | Accident at Work, asbestosis compensation, News
A building company in Suffolk has been fined after it removed asbestos insulation board from a farm building in Essex without a license. Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court heard how a member of the public alerted the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after expressing...
by Russell Worth | Feb 9, 2015 | asbestosis compensation, Industrial Disease, News
A businessman has been fined £8,000 after he allowed asbestos to be spread in an industrial building through not appointing licensed contractors to get rid of the potentially fatal material. Peter Rees, owner of a business unit in Mochdre Business Park, Colwyn Bay,...
by Russell Worth | Feb 9, 2015 | asbestosis compensation, Claims, Industrial Disease
Two companies have been prosecuted after exposing workers to potentially-fatal asbestos. Pilkington Plumbing and Heating Ltd allowed two of its employees to conduct the removal of a back boiler and drill a wall panel at a house in Ilfracombe, despite it not receiving...
by Russell Worth | Jan 26, 2015 | Accident Claims, asbestosis compensation, Claims, Industrial Disease |
Russell Worth is backing calls for a Government report on the management of asbestos in schools across the country to be published as soon as possible. The report was originally due to be published in June last year, but it now looks increasingly likely that it won’t...
