Mesothelioma settlement of £100,000

The widow of a man who worked as a fireman on locomotives has been awarded £100,000 following his death from mesothelioma. He began work in 1943 for Great Western Railways which later became British Rail. His first job for the company was to clean the locomotives before use which often meant disturbing the asbestos lagging in the casing of the boilers in the engines. Within two years he was promoted to fireman on the locomotive where he was exposed to white asbestos in the confined space of the cabin. Later he worked as an overhead crane driver and was exposed to asbestos again.