Foreman's overalls were coated with asbestos dust, causing daughter's mesothelioma years later

In recent news about asbestos exposure and mesothelioma, a woman is suing her foreman father’s former employers claiming she inhaled asbestos particles on his overalls as a child when she hugged him.

The woman, 58, believes the asbestos disease was caused by exposure to the fibers on his work clothes.

Reportedly, her father was a maintenance firm foreman in the 1950s and died of prostate cancer in 2004, aged 89.

She was last year diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer.

The former office worker recalled that her father was always dusty from work.

He worked for 24 years demolishing old buildings.

She remembers helping her mother wash her father's work clothes.

“They were so filthy that they had to go through a wash on their own,” she said.

Asbestos is a deadly substance that can cause asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma. Housewives and children are at risk because family members who were laborers, including carpenters, construction workers and shipbuilders, commonly tracked asbestos into the home on their shoes and work overalls.

Their wives and daughters who did the laundry breathed in the asbestos dust and fibers while laundering their workpants.

This type of exposure is known as second-hand exposure, and has resulted in many women developing asbestos related diseases.

Weitz & Luxenberg’s asbestos attorneys have represented several clients in cases of secondary exposure, including a case where a wife was diagnosed with mesothelioma after years of asbestos exposure simply from washing her husband’s work clothes.

We were able to secure her a settlement from over 20 defendants for several million dollars.

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