Harold Hopkins, 69 year old Australian actor dies in Neringah Private Hospital in Wahroonga, north Sydney on 11 December 2011, following a battle with mesothelioma cancer. His family thinks that he was exposed to asbestos fibres without protective clothing or masks on his first job after he finished high school. Harold took up asbestos sheeting as an apprentice carpenter in Queensland, in the early 1960s.
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