Over the next three months, the Duncan man learned that the asbestos fibres he inhaled on the job in his late teens or early 20s had finally detonated inside his lungs. By the end of the year, the 54-year-old father of two teenage daughters was dead from a rare, lethal form of lung cancer -- one of 70 people who died in B.C. in 2003 from a disease they contracted on the job.
News Source: Canada.com | Published: April 29, 2004 |
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