Cancer victim’s appeal for help

Oct 16 2008 by Andrew Hirst, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A WEST Yorkshire cancer survivor wants former work colleagues to provide information about his exposure to chemicals at a Huddersfield factory.

Michael Savage, 65, from Halifax, who used to work at the then ICI works on Leeds Road in the 1970s was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2005.

He is now in remission, but has been warned he faces a 90% chance of the cancer coming back.

Certain chemicals are known or suspected to cause bladder cancer many years after the first exposure.

Mr Savage wants former workmates to come forward to help his legal representatives, Thompsons Solicitors, piece together information about his working conditions in the chemical industry.

He was a maintenance fitter at ICI from 1972 to 1977.

He repaired and serviced equipment and was based in a building known as 824 Beta Nap.