A woman has brought a claim for compensation against the employers of her husband after he died from lung cancer. Eighty-two-year-old Winifred Parkins was married to her husband Ted for 59 years before he died of lung cancer, despite being a non-smoker. Ted Parkins contracted the lung cancer from working as a shipyard worker for three decades, working around asbestos.
Mrs Parkins also suffers from pleural plaques which says is as a result of her husband bringing home the dangerous substance on his clothes for three decades.
Ted Parkins died in July 2007 from lung cancer which he contracted as a result of working at Tyneside shipyards.
Mrs Parkins stated:
Ted was very well-loved. He was an excellent provider and he always took care of everybody – he always helped to get jobs for his friends when they needed them.
It’s terrible what the companies did. People just got on with their work in those days, you didn’t ask questions. But he would come home with asbestos all over his hair – it was just hanging off the pipes where he was working.
He was such a social person, but the cancer put a stop to that. He could hardly breathe and stopped going out – he would just sit in, watching TV and reading instead. Plenty of people would come to visit him, but it just wasn’t the same.
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