Refinery Worker Sues Dupont for Mesothelioma. Get an asbestos legal review of your case.

A woman in Nederland, Texas, has opted to sue DuPont and several asbestos manufacturers because she has developed mesothelioma from washing her husband's asbestos-contaminated work clothes for many years, according to Reliable Plant magazine on March 3, 2008.

The woman's husband was a refinery worker at the Beaumont DuPont facility between 1957 and 1985, the article says. She washed her husband's dusty work clothes, not knowing that they were covered with asbestos fibers.

Now, years later, she is suffering from pleural mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer related to asbestos that attacks the lining of the lungs.

According to the report, the woman has sued the asbestos manufacturers that provided products to the DuPont facility and exposed her husband to asbestos. She says those facilities failed to provide proper warnings on how dangerous it is to those who come in direct contact with it, and also to those who are exposed second-hand, as she was.

She also has sued her husband's employer, DuPont, because DuPont knew or should have known of the danger of asbestos exposure as well. It has been widely written about in industry information since the 1930s that asbestos is a dangerous industrial toxin.

From shipfitters, pipefitters and demolition workers, to those toiling on railroads and in construction, Weitz & Luxenberg has many clients whose needless and entirely avoidable exposure to asbestos ultimately led to them developing asbestos-related diseases.

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