Honda Motor Co. was ordered to pay 54 million yen to a former mechanic who claims that his mesothelioma, exposed to asbestos be while Japan developed in the late 1960s, a Honda Nagoya Office include the work in a factory. Mesothelioma is a rare tumor of the protective lining of the heart, lungs, chest and stomach, which caused almost exclusively by prolonged exposure to asbestos.
Of the Tokyo District Court judge Koichiro Matsumoto judgment against Honda announced he explained "exposed to the risks that had known asbestos by the time the Pneumoconiosis Act 1960 in the adopted as Honda deliberately would risk the latest, and a large company and the damage at the factory were foreseeable."
Mechanic Hidenari Hane claims that he inhaled asbestos when replacing brake parts between April 1968 to December 1969. Mesothelioma can take anywhere from 20 to 50 years to develop so that Hane's claim clearly fits the average period of developing mesothelioma.
Unfortunately it is very hard to see aggressive cancer, so it usually diagnosed isn't until it reaches level three or four. At that time extended mesothelioma treatment, some combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation contains, rarely a patient's life expectancy by more than 6 months.
Labor Standards Inspection Office in Nagoya recognizes that Hane deserves worker compensation and judge Matsumoto said that Honda had "the obligation to such measures as the prohibition workers to air brake drums, which spray asbestos for the cleaning, to use the spread of dust or order masks carry."
This was posted on Thursday, January 16, 2010 at 12: 00 pm and is filed under news.
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