They are now joining with their legal team in appealing to Mr Kennedy’s former workmates for details on the conditions he may have faced while employed at Ravenscraig steelworks in Motherwell.
“While there is nothing we can do to change what they’re going through, we’re determined to help them obtain the answers they deserve. Mr Kennedy’s wife, Fay, said: “It was very quick between Jim being diagnosed and us losing him. It was such a huge shock and I was absolutely devastated. Rates of mesothelioma have increased rapidly since the 1990s as a result of workers’ past occupational exposure to asbestos in a range of industries, including housebuilding and car manufacturing.
The Ravenscraig plant, which once produced more hot-strip steel than any other site in Europe, was owned and operated by Colville before being bought by the British Steel Corporation in 1967 and eventually closing in 1992.
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