Abdul Hamid Rashid Bowar, a 50-year-old landlord from Stanmore, Harrow, London, was forced to pay nearly GBP7,000 after dumping asbestos in an alleyway used by residents and children, the Harrow Observer reports.
The asbestos was fly-tipped in the alleyway about 300…
Thousands of tradesmen are to get free asbestos awareness training in a bid to tackle ignorance about Britain’s biggest industrial killer, according to a Health and Safety Executive press release dated Oct. 6, 2011.
The HSE, in partnership with industry, set…
After being prosecuted by the U.K. Environment Agency, Trago Mills has been ordered to pay nearly GBP200,000 in fines and costs for illegally dumping and burning waste, the Cornish Guardian reports.
Magistrates in Torquay, England, were told that several thousand tons…
Fadil Adil, a building contractor from Coniston Road, Bromley, London, has been fined for running a construction site that led to workers being exposed to asbestos-containing materials, according to a Health and Safety Executive press release dated Oct. 6, 2011.
Mr.…
A Hatfield Coroner’s Court inquest, held on Oct. 6, 2011, heard that the death of 62-year-old Eugenia Warren, of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, was related to second-hand exposure to asbestos, the Watford Observer reports.
Mrs. Warren passed away at The Peace Hospice,…
The Order of Friars Minor sued heating firm Lothian Heating Services for GBP35,000 when workers battered two holes in a wall of the religious group’s Edinburgh, Scotland, base, the Edinburgh Evening News reports.
Lothian Heating staff had spent a week installing…
An inquest heard that the death of 68-year-old Wendy Riley, a housewife from Southampton, England, was related to second-hand exposure to asbestos, the Southern Daily Echo reports.
The inquest heard that Mrs. Riley died of mesothelioma after becoming exposed to asbestos…
An inquest was told that the death of 74-year-old Donald Roberts, a retired joiner from Bucknall, Staffordshire, England, was due to workplace exposure to asbestos, The Sentinel reports.
Mr. Roberts was suffering from mesothelioma when he was found dead at the…
An inquest heard that the death of 77-year-old Francis Graham Brightman, a former nuclear physicist from St Bees, Cumbria, England, was related to workplace exposure to asbestos, News & Star reports.
Mr. Brightman died at his home in November 2010. A…
The family of William Evans, a former AW Hawksley Ltd worker from Cheltenham, England, has been awarded GBP92,000 in asbestos- related compensation, BBC News reports.
Mr. Evans died from mesothelioma earlier in 2011. He worked for AW Hawksley Ltd, a subsidiary…