Our Asbestos team is currently investigating a claim for a gentleman exposed to asbestos in a number of locations across Birmingham while working for local company C. A. Sothers Ltd between 1961 and 1974.
He worked as an electrician and his likely exposure over various sites demonstrates how widely asbestos was used across the city and wider region. Having spoken to a former colleague, it is believed that he came into contact with asbestos at warehouses where steelwork was sprayed with asbestos and during steelworks ‘shutdown periods’ where asbestos lagged pipework was being removed.
It is also believed that as an electrician he drilled ceiling tiles to enable him to undertake electrical work at petrol stations and cinemas. Further, it is understood he may have also undertaken work at boiler houses at hospitals, schools and universities in the area where asbestos lagging was either mixed and applied to boilers and pipework or removed due to its poor condition.
The famous Jewellery Quarter was no exception to asbestos use as it is also understood that he undertook work on asbestos sheets and tiles here as well as fuse boards that contained asbestos quenching pads and worked alongside asbestos lagged pipework that ran throughout the quarter.
