Oregon asbestos victim’s dying words aired in wrongful death case against Buffet’s railroad

Attorneys for the estates of Thomas Wells and a second mesothelioma victim accuse the railroad and its corporate predecessors of polluting Libby, Montana.

HELENA, Mont. — Thomas Wells ran a half-marathon at age 60 and played recreational volleyball until he was 63. At 65 years old, doctors diagnosed him with mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive lung cancer linked to asbestos exposure.

“I’m in great pain and alls I see is this getting worse,” the retired middle school teacher from Oregon said in a video deposition recorded in March 2020, four months after his cancer diagnosis. He died a day later.

Portions of Wells’ deposition were

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