\n Brian Kettley, a retired mini-bus driver, died at his home on Haverscroft Close in Taverham on January 31.\n<\/p>\n
\n An inquest at Norfolk Coroner’s Court has revealed how the 82-year-old – a former contract electrician in Dereham – was exposed to the fibrous mineral during the early stages of his career.\n<\/p>\n
\n Norfolk Coroner’s Court (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
\n The court was told Mr Kettley, who also had Alzheimer’s disease and arthritis, suffered exposure during his time working as an electrician.\n<\/p>\n
\n His medical cause of death was given as severe coronary artery atheroma and asbestosis.\n<\/p>\n
\n A statement from his daughter read out in court said Mr Kettley “later recalled drilling into asbestos” while working as an apprentice and maintenance electrician in London.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Kettley, who was born in Stratford, then worked in a post office and as a telecom engineer for BT before becoming a mini-bus driver in later life.\n<\/p>\n
\n Norfolk Coroner’s Court (Image: Mike Page)\n<\/p>\n
\n He moved to live in a bungalow in Norwich in 2018 and spent the last seven years of his life being cared for by his daughter.\n<\/p>\n
\n In her statement, she added that her father “developed a cold which got worse” in the days before his death. He was diagnosed with pneumonia and his “condition deteriorated across the following days”.\n<\/p>\n
\n Concluding his inquest, area coroner Yvonne Blake said: “He had been an electrician and had been exposed to asbestos when he would drill into walls.\n<\/p>\n
\n Yvonne Blake, area coroner at Norfolk Coroner’s Court (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
\n “His main problem seemed to be breathlessness which worsened over the years.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The grade of his breathlessness worsened and he couldn’t dress or undress without getting breathless.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Some fibres were found. His primary cause of death appears to be cardiac.”\n<\/p>\n
\n She gave a short-form conclusion of natural causes contributed to by industrial disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Kettley, a retired mini-bus driver, died at his home on Haverscroft Close in Taverham on January 31.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}