This is the story of a factory and some broken safety regulations. Acre Mill, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. The owners, Cape Asbestos, a big international company, closed it down last year. But Acre Mill won’t easily be forgotten. World in Action: The Dust at Acre Mill, ITV 1971
The asbestos industry was warned in 1930 by an official report that asbestos dust could cause an incurable lung disease, asbestosis. ibid.
Some of those regulations were broken at the mill. ibid.