Businesses Where Workers are Exposed to Asbestos

Occupations:

• Asbestos product manufacturing (insulation, roofing, building materials)

• Automotive repair shops (especially those that involve repair of brakes, clutches)

• Construction companies

• Maritime companies

• Mining companies

• Offshore rust removal businesses

• Oil refineries

• Power plants

• Railroads

• Manufacturers of sand or abrasives

• Shipbuilders, ship lines, and ship yards

• Steel manufacturers

• Tile cutters

• Auto mechanics

• Boiler makers

• Bricklayers

• Building inspectors

• Carpenters

• Demolition workers

• Drywallers

• Electricians

• Floor covering workers

• Furnace workers

• Glazers

• Grinders

• Hod carriers

• Insulators

• Iron workers

• Laborers

• Libby vermiculite exfoliation plant workers

• Longshoremen

• Maintenance workers

• Merchant marines

• Millwrights

• Operating engineers

• Painters

• Pipe fitters

• Plasterers

• Plumbers

• Roofers

• Refinery workers

• Sheet metal workers

• Shipyard workers

• Steam fitters

• Tile setters

• U.S. Navy personnel

• Welders

Source: NIOSH, 2001