Asbestos led to death.EXPOSURE to asbestos ultimately led to the death of a Teesside process worker, an inquest heard. Billingham man Brian Cheeseman developed mesothelioma Mesothelioma Definition Mesothelioma is an uncommon disease that causes malignant cancer cells to form within the lining of the chest, abdomen, or around the heart. Its primary cause is believed to be exposure to asbestos. after being exposed to the deadly dust during his working life. Mr Cheeseman, 60, of Hetton Close, Billingham, had worked at both the Furness shipyard in Haverton Hill Haverton Hill is an area within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is situated to the north of the River Tees, near Billingham. and at ICI (language) ICI - An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays. Billingham. An inquest was told that workers were not provided with protective masks or given any indication of the dangers of asbestos. Mr Cheeseman was admitted to the University Hospital of North Tees on December 19 last year. He died there on December 27. Teesside Coroner Michael Sheffield said he was satisfied that Mr Cheeseman had been exposed to asbestos dust while at work. Mr Sheffield recorded a verdict that he died as a result of the industrial disease mesothelioma. |
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