Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Relatives Of British Victims Of Mesothelioma Are Trying To Tata Steel

The multinational Tata Steel Company has been brought six-figure sum to the Williams family, Jim, died of cancer mesothelioma in 2008. This is an aggressive and incurable cancer caused almost exclusively by long-term exposure to asbestos and it affects the protective lining of the major organs and body cavities.

According to an application by lawyers for the family, Williams has been exposed to asbestos between 1963 and 1967 while working in the department of labor in the former steel mills of John Lysaght. The exhibition is supposed to have been concentrated around the pits in the works he regularly went down to sweep the dust and dirt. The debris may contain asbestos, which was probably released from pipes near or soaking pits, both of whom had asbestos lagging.

Williams, a native of Scunthorpe, England, died at the age of 71 years, three months after being diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma, which affects the lining of the lungs. To diagnosis, was the picture of health. Asbestos victims rarely realize they have been exposed to asbestos, mesothelioma and it takes an average of 40 years to develop and is not usually the symptoms until the patient reaches stage three or four are rarely diagnosed in time for mesothelioma treatment dramatically improve the prognosis.

Work Lysaght, who employed Williams, and was renamed Normanby Park, closed 30 years ago. A representative of Tata was willing to say: "We are aware of the case and it is viewed by our legal representatives."
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