An 85-year-old man has been awarded more than $320,000 in damages after a judge ruled he was suffering from mesothelioma caused by his exposure to asbestos.
From 1957 to 1988 Allan Charles Geyer worked as a boiler maker and supervisor at South Australia's Playford Power Stations and argued it was there he came in contact with asbestos dust and fibres.
After taking extensive medical evidence, the District Court in Adelaide has ruled that Mr Geyer has a tumour in his pleural cavity and more probably that not is suffering from mesothelioma.
Judge Bill Jennings said it was likely the disease would claim Mr Geyer's life within the next year and set total damages at $327,474.
"The medical evidence establishes that the invariable course of the disease will be an increase in the size of the tumour, increasing shortness of breath, weight loss and depression, increasing pain and ... ultimately death," the judge said.
He said Mr Geyer's employer at the time had been aware of the risks posed by asbestos from the early 1970s and while the company took some measures to reduce the danger, did not go far enough.
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