Asbestos claims life of former Wolverhampton pub worker
A former hotelier died from asbestos exposure caused by her time working in a pub, an inquest heard.
Denise Healey, who lived with her businessman husband Michael in Keepers Lane, Wolverhampton , died on Christmas Day(2013) in Compton Hospice.
The 61-year-old had worked for some time at The Three Tuns pub in Wolverhampton, the inquest at Walsall Manor Hospital heard.
In a report read out at the hearing it was said the cellar walls were lined with asbestos sheeting which was cracked and broken from being bumped with beer barrels.
She went to the cellar every week for the beer delivery and also helped to keep it clean.
Although a post mortem did not find any asbestos fibres, West Midlands coroner Robin Balmain said that death from mesothelioma was almost always associated with asbestos exposure. He concluded that death was due to an industrial disease.
