SILICOSIS VICTIMS SECURE COMPENSATION

摘要

Two men who developed the lung disease silicosis as a result of years of exposure to hazardous dust in the workplace have been awarded substantial sums in compensation. The workers were both employed at a Southwick factory from the 1970s to the 1990s. One was responsible for stripping out furnaces and re-lining them with silica mix; he claimed that the safety equipment with which he had been issued was inadequate, comprising only ear-defenders, gloves and a dust-mask. He was diagnosed with silicosis in 1998 and forced to retire in 2000. The second man was forced to take early retirement at the age of 52 at around the same time.