ASBESTOS at a West Yorkshire power station in the 1960s was “falling like confetti,” an inquest has heard.
Geoffrey Hilton, of Halifax Road, Liversedge, had worked at Thornhill Power Station near Dewsbury and his wife Carol recalled him telling her asbestos dust fell there like confetti, Coroner Martin Fleming was told.
Mr Hilton, who was 83 and was diagnosed with Chronic Pulmonary Obstruction Disease in 2007, died at Dewsbury District Hospital on January 25 this year.
The cause of his death was pneumonia with asbestosis and COPD. At post mortem, dust was found in his lungs and histology showed high asbestos exposure. He had worked with other companies in Brighouse and in Cleckheaton since but never came into contact with asbestos again. Mr Fleming said about the death: “More likely than not, its causation was the asbestos.”
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