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The wife of a retired sweet factory worker is filing an industrial illness compensation claim on her husband's behalf after an accident in which he fell collecting his post and subsequently died.
While an employee at the sweet makers, the victim's job not only involved helping make the sweets and cleaning the industrial ovens in which the sweets were made, but working with the boilers, which all contained asbestos.
As a result of his close proximity to the boilers, the 82-year-old man had been diagnosed with mesothelioma and prescribed a drug to prevent his blood from clotting.
It was due to side-effects of this drug that when the asbestos victim fell over and hit his head, he suffered a brain haemorrhage which led to his death some weeks after the incident.
The elderly man's widow has now decided to pursue an industrial illness claim against his former employer, stating that it was negligent and failed to provide her husband with a safe workplace, or warn him of the health risks he was facing when working around the boilers.
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