Woman with mesothelioma was exposed to asbestos in a school as a kitchen prep worker

A former kitchen assistant in England was recently diagnosed with the asbestos-related lung cancer mesothelioma, reported the Birmingham Mail on July 7, 2008.

The woman, 75, said she was likely exposed to asbestos while working as a kitchen prep at a middle school in the 1970s.

The article cites studies that reveal that asbestos was present in many schools in the '60s and ‘70s.

The woman is now hoping former colleagues who worked with her at the school will come forward and help her in her asbestos lawsuit compensation battle.

She believes she may have inhaled asbestos dust when her duties involved preparing food, washing up and serving school dinners to pupils in the kitchen between 1973 and 1977.

She was reportedly shocked to learn she had mesothelioma because she had always associated asbestos exposure with people who worked in heavy industries such as construction.

According to the Mail, this case is just one of a growing number involving former school workers, including teachers, who have have been diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases.

Sadly, this situation, where exposure to asbestos was easily preventable, is all too familiar to the mesothelioma attorneys in the Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. Asbestos Litigation unit here in the United States.

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