Story: Workplace safety and accident compensation

Victim of asbestos poisoning (2nd of 3)

Victim of asbestos poisoning

Wellington man Robin McKenzie, seen in hospital with his wife Shirley in 1990, was exposed to asbestos while working as an electrical engineer on power stations in the 1950s. Later he developed mesothelioma, a form of cancer caused by breathing in asbestos fibres, and died in 1994.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP/1990/1381/13-F
Photograph by Mark Round

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Hazel Armstrong, 'Workplace safety and accident compensation - Workplace health and safety, 1990s and 2000s', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/23282/victim-of-asbestos-poisoning (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Hazel Armstrong, published 11 Mar 2010, reviewed & revised 18 Apr 2016