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아래 내용은 2014년 11월 12월에 실린 일본 마이니치 신문 기사입니다.
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과거 집배원이었으나 2011년 석면질병인 중피종으로 사망한 유족들이 산재보상을 받게 되었다.
유족들에게 계속적인 지원을 해온 고베에 위치한 효고 노동안전보건센터에 따르면, 고인은 1961년부터 고베항 우체국에서 근무를 시작하였다. 그는 국제수화물를 취급하였고 매일 수차례 선적작업을 하였다. 2001년 3월, 국제우편물서비스가 고베 중앙우체국으로 이전함에 따라 퇴직하였다. 그리고, 2011년 4월 중피종 진단을 받았고 8개월 후 70세의 나이에 사망하였다. 1970년과 80년 사이, 고베항을 통해 대향의 석면이 수입되었다. 당시 인부들의 증언에 따르면, 선박내 적재되어 있는 뜯어진 포대에서 석면이 빠져나와 사방으로 흩어졌다고 하였다.
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Workers' compensation awarded over asbestos-linked death of ex-postman
KOBE -- The family of a former postman who died of the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma in 2011 after working at Kobe Port will receive workers' compensation over his death, it has been learned.
According to the Kobe-based nonprofit organization Hyogo rodo anzen eisei center (Hyogo labor safety and health center) that supported the claim filed by the man's bereaved family, the man began working at Kobe Port Post Office in 1961. He handled international parcels and boarded ships several times a day. He retired from the job in March 2001 when the operation of the international service was shifted to Kobe Central Post Office. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in April 2011 and died eight months later at the age of 70.
In between the 1970s and 1980s, a large amount of asbestos was imported via Kobe Port. Workers at the port have testified that they saw asbestos dust scattering around from ripped hemp bags loaded inside ships.
As post offices were operated under the jurisdiction of the then Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications at the time, the man's family filed for workers' compensation for public officials in September 2013. Japan Post Co. in September this year recognized a work-related illness as the cause of the man's death based on the Government Employees' Accident Compensation Act.
According to an official from the nonprofit organization, the man's wife said she wants people to know that asbestos illnesses are not unrelated to post office workers.
A Japan Post official said this is the first case where workers' compensation for asbestos-related illnesses has been recognized in the death of a post office worker who did not have direct access to asbestos materials.
November 12, 2014(Mainichi Japan)
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