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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Health Editor

‘My husband was killed by the job he loved – it could have been prevented if he’d been given PPE’

Plagued by extreme fatigue, breathlessness and violent coughing fits that at one stage caused him to break a rib, the toll of the job Lee Walker loved had finally become too much.

The loving husband and father started working at a Rotherham glassworks factory in 2008, as a forehearth specialist, helping to maintain machinery that shapes molten glass into bottles and jars.

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