Asbestos exposure is most likely at shipyards, electric power plants and steam tunnels, breweries, hospitals, schools, shopping malls, paper mills and other heavy industrial plants. Trades at great risk of asbestos exposure include construction workers such as: pipe fitters, insulators, plasterers, cement masons, bricklayers, carpenters, steam fitters, plumbers, and laborers. Exposure occurs at steel mills for all workers.
But asbestos exposure is not limited to these places or professions. Asbestos can be found in the following types of products, especially if they were manufactured between 1940 and 1970. |
