Jump to full article: Dursley Gazette (uk), 2007-08-01
Author: By Court Reporter
Intro: INDUSTRIAL exposure to asbestos did not play a part in the lung cancer which killed a Dursley man, a coroner has ruled.
Deputy county coroner David Dooley recorded a verdict that Frederick Rudd, 74, a retired carpenter/joiner of Rock Road, died from natural causes.
Mr Dooley said at the inquest in Gloucester that the level of asbestos fibres found in Mr Rudd's body was not high enough to prove that it was due to industrial exposure to the deadly mineral. . . .
Mr Rudd had come into contact with asbestos during the building work and used to cut and saw it to shape, she stated.
He had also been a lifelong smoker, although he had given up in 1998 because he was fed up with getting chest infections in winter.
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