A grandmother's death has been recorded as one by industrial disease through exposure to asbestos, following an inquest.
The Manchester Evening News told builders liability insurance holders that great-grandmother Margaret Bostock worked in factories that made fire-resistant gloves between 1944 and 1948.
However, her son Christopher, only found out about this past employment after she died.
"I would have liked to have been in a position to have said to her that it was never her fault and that unbeknown to everybody she did this job and that is what caused her to be ill for 20 years," he added.
Macclesfield coroner Nicholas Rheinberg said that asbestos had been present when making the fire-resistant gloves, and it was not recognised to be such a dangerous substance in the 1940s.
Robert Cooper, support and development manager of the British Lung Foundation North West, recently said that there is definitely more work that needs to be done to make people aware of the dangers of asbestos.