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Inspectas > News > 2016 > August

Month: August 2016

Waste dumped on Dartmoor may contain deadly asbestos

Concerns have been raised that bags stuffed full of construction waste dumped on Dartmoor could contain the deadly material asbestos...

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Posted on 30th August 2016 Categories Asbestos Management Tags Building, Construction, Dartmoor, Devon, Fly tipping, Mesothelioma, Public Health, Tradespeople

Family of asbestos cancer worker make plea to his former Swansea factory colleagues

The family of a former Gorseinon factory worker is appealing for help from his former colleagues after he died from asbestos related lung cancer...

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Posted on 30th August 201630th August 2016 Categories Cancer, Legal, Uncategorised, Wales Tags Birchall Blackburn Law, Compensation, Contractors, Employees, Mesothelioma, National Asbestos Helpline, Swansea, Trades

Bereaved families of two York asbestos victims urge ex-colleagues to come forward

Families of two men who both apparently fell victim to York’s asbestos time-bomb have appealed for former colleagues to come forward with information...

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Posted on 26th August 201626th August 2016 Categories Legal, Trades Tags Building, Compensation, Construction, Mesothelioma, Railways, Trades, Tradespeople, York, Yorkshire

Former bricklayer died after asbestos exposure, inquest told

A retired Southampton bricklayer died after years of asbestos exposure, an inquest heard. He was first exposed to deadly material whilst repairing a chimney...

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Posted on 25th August 201625th August 2016 Categories Cancer, Legal, Trades Tags Bricklayer, Builder, Construction, Tradespeople

Fly tippers dump sacks of killer asbestos near children’s playpark

Council acts after public safety alert was raised by passing project manager...

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Posted on 23rd August 201623rd August 2016 Categories Safety Tags Birmingham, Children, Environmental, Fly tipping, Solihull

Dartford and Gravesham’s high number of mesothelioma asbestos deaths

More people are dying of an asbestos-related lung disease in Dartford and Gravesham than in most of the country, it has been revealed...

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Posted on 22nd August 201623rd August 2016 Categories Cancer Tags APIL, Dartford, Gravesham, Kent, Legal, Mesothelioma

Former plumbing boss killed by asbestos exposure from apprenticeship in the 1970s

Popular businessman dies aged just 62, two years after being diagnosed with mesothelioma, even though he thought he had never worked with the deadly material...

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Posted on 21st August 2016 Categories Cancer, Trades Tags Asbestosis, Contractors, Kent, Mesothelioma, Plumbing, Tradespeople

New study challenges assumption of asbestos’ ability to move in soil

Scientist findings may have implications for current remediation strategies...

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Posted on 21st August 2016 Categories Air Testing, Asbestos, Asbestos Management, Cancer Tags Asbestos Fibres, Environmental, Mesothelioma, Soil

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