A FORMER kiln worker died of asbestos-related cancer after being employed at a pottery firm for 37 years.
George Harrison, aged 87, from Old Wharf Place, Hanley, worked for Johnson's Pottery between 1950 and 1987. He started to have chest problems in January this year and complained of soreness.
When the pain was still present in February, his daughters persuaded him to go to the doctor and he was diagnosed with mesothelioma on March 29.
His daughter Christine Harriman, who lives in Cambridgeshire, said: "He told the doctor he had used asbestos rope in the kilns and kept it in a storeroom where it was cut.
"That was the first we had heard of it. They also used to put asbestos suits on when the kiln crashed."
She described her father as an independent man who did not complain often. Once he was diagnosed he declined rapidly and did not eat or drink properly.
He was cared for in a nursing home for a couple of weeks before being admitted to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire on May 12 with a chest infection.
He died three days later on May 15.
At an inquest into the death, North Staffordshire Coroner Ian Smith recorded a verdict of death caused by industrial disease.
He said: "The tumour is like a sheet over the lung, there is no cure."
source: thisisstaffordshire.co.uk
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