A RETIRED electrician died of cancer after coming into contact with asbestos in his working life.
Winchester Coroner’s Court heard how Robert Payne, from Testwood Lane in Totton, worked at a tar distillery in Totton in the 1960s.
At the time, Mr Payne, who died aged 69, worked in a boiler room which had a boiler and pipes lagged with asbestos.
One of his jobs was to install copper cables which involved mixing asbestos powder.
In in a past statement he said he would spend a lot of time with laggers who were covered in asbestos.
In 1967 he started working in a factory where he also came into contact with the substance.
Mr Payne developed a cough which was later diagnosed as mesothelioma in October 2014. He later died at Countess Mountbatten Hospice on January 22.
Senior coroner Grahame Short recorded a death due to industrial disease.
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