Overnight shift at SA Pathology lab scrapped over scientist fatigue concerns, inquest hears

A coronial inquest is underway into the death of Dennis Charles Jackson, who was known as Jacko, in January 2019.  (Supplied)

Overnight "graveyard shifts" at an SA Pathology laboratory were scrapped to prevent tired scientists making mistakes, an inquest into the death of a man who was misdiagnosed with lung cancer has heard. 

Broken Hill man Dennis Charles Jackson was incorrectly diagnosed with lung cancer before he died from pneumonia in January 2019.