MAINTENANCE WORKER
Job description often fails to identify deadly risk of asbestos exposure
Maintenance workers who worked in textile mills, steel mills, chemical plants, or in the boiler rooms of public and residential buildings prior to the 1980s are now at risk for developing an asbestos-related cancer like mesothelioma, because of the disease’s long latency period.
Health authorities know that maintenance workers risk occupational asbestos exposure. If diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease, like mesothelioma, maintenance workers can receive financial compensation for their injuries, which are often fatal and can leave a family without their chief breadwinner.
The personal injury law firm of Weitz & Luxenberg has protected the legal rights of maintenance workers and their families since 1986. And in that time the firm's mesothelioma lawyers have won several billion dollars in verdicts and settlements for clients harmed by occupational asbestos exposure.
Maintenance workers and asbestos
Asbestos exposure occurs when maintenance workers engage in maintenance and repair activities in building basements that haven’t undergone asbestos abatement.
Prior to the 1980s, asbestos was used abundantly in basements, boiler rooms, plumbing gaskets and as hot water pipe insulation. Once disturbed, microscopic asbestos fibers can become airborne, inhaled and embedded in lung tissue where they fester for years, sometimes decades before a diagnosis can be made.
Maintenance workers find asbestos
In 1998, a group of men who worked for the Architect of the Capitol, a government agency in charge of maintaining the heating and cooling systems for the White House, Supreme Court, and Capitol buildings, discovered that the tunnels they work in are full of asbestos.
They requested that a cleanup be done, but were branded troublemakers and were harassed by their employer for seeking independent medical evaluations. No cleanup took place. In October 2006 they filed a whistle-blower complaint about their work conditions.
When it's time to seek restitution . . .
If you have been diagnosed with mesothelioma and seek a free case review, please notify us through the communication form on this page. We will determine your eligibility to receive compensation and pursue your claim with vigilance to help you pay for medical bills, lost wages, and suffering.
Please know, the firm works on a contingency basis so there is no cost to you until we obtain a verdict or reach a settlement in your favor.
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