Boiler Fitter Died from Mesothelioma

An inquest has heard how a former boiler fitter died after being exposed to asbestos fibers during his career.

70-year-old Ronald Goldsworthy was working as a boiler fitter in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where he was exposed to asbestos, Coroner Terrence Moor heard.

Goldsworthy was diagnosed with mesothelioma, an incurable asbestos-related cancer, initially in 2008. However, the diagnoses was changed later after a review made by doctors.

However, his condition deteriorated three years later and he was diagnosed with mesothelioma again before he died on May 21.

Coroner Terrence Moor said usually a mesothelioma patient can’t survive for three years. “Possibly, he developed the disease during the last year of his life,” Moor said.

Moor decided that the death was by industrial disease.

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