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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Ex-paper mill workers 'increasingly seeking advice over industrial deafness'  Individuals who used to work in paper mills are increasingly seeking legal advice over alleged industrial deafness. This is according to the representative of one such group who were employed at the East Lancashire Paper Mill before it shut down. A total of nine former workers at the site are looking into whether they may be eligible for compensation as a result of damage to their hearing. Albert Isherwood is one of those involved and he performed a number of roles at the mill from 1954 until it shut down. He remarked: "There was hardly a day I wasn't exposed to the sound of massive machinery working and yet it wasn't until the last eight or ten years or so we were given any ear protection." Even then, this would have to be taken off in order to understand what colleagues were saying, he suggested. After a visit to his GP, Mr Isherwood was diagnosed with noise induced hearing loss. According to Royal National Institute for Deaf People figures cited by the NHS, there are around nine million hearing impaired people in the UK, 72 per cent of whom are over the age of 60. 
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