A FARM worker has died from a collapsed lung after falling twice at his home in Wallingford.
Brian Clifford, 90, of Radnor Road, died at the John Radcliffe Hospital on June 11 this year after experience two falls in two days prior to his admission.
The widowed farm worker continued to deteriorate whilst in hospital and died at 2.49pm on the day of his admission.
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An inquest opening at Oxford Coroner’s Court on Tuesday (August 6) heard that a post-mortem examination was carried out.
His medical cause of death was given as ‘massive pleural effusion with collapse of left long’ and ‘recent fall with rib fractures’.
Coroner Darren Salter has set a date for a full inquest to take place on November 21.
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