| The American Lung Association states that lung | | | | today's industries, it was used widely between 1940 |
| cancer has killed more than 150,000 people each year. | | | | and 1980. Aside from asbestos, pipe fitters are also at |
| More often than not, people are suffering from | | | | risk for contact with benzene - another carcinogenic |
| diseases which they acquired from their line of work | | | | that causes lung cancer. |
| or their high risk jobs. An alarming increase of lung | | | | Those who install insulation flirt with death and disease |
| cancer has been documented. In most cases, these | | | | through their high risk job. This is another job that has |
| people have been exposed to second hand smoke at | | | | caused lung cancer among the workers. Asbestos is |
| the workplace, or they have inhaled dangerous | | | | present in insulation materials, and any laborer who has |
| chemicals and substances they should have been | | | | worked as an insulation installer is 92 times more likely |
| warned about. Lethal among the substances is | | | | to get sick. Another high risk job is working with tiles. |
| asbestos. The government has taken steps to protect | | | | They are likely to inhale interminable quantities of |
| both worker and employer in high risk jobs as | | | | asbestos in almost all the materials they work around |
| asbestos litigation spirals upward. The damage to life is | | | | with - on ceilings, floors, and wall. As they work on the |
| irreplaceable and billions of dollars have been spent to | | | | tiles they whiff in the dust which always carry |
| pay victims and their families | | | | asbestos which will give them mesothelioma cancer or |
| Many of those suffering from lung cancer are | | | | asbestosis. Sanders, unknowingly, are in high risk jobs. |
| associated with high risk jobs as shipbuilders, pipe | | | | Even they have protective gear, they are still |
| fitters, insulation installers, tile workers, welders, refinery | | | | susceptible to dust inhalation which may contain toxic |
| workers, and sanders. These are considered high risk | | | | fumes from asbestos, benzene and other |
| jobs for the consequence in later years. Wondering | | | | carcinogenics. |
| why? Shipbuilders are always in contact with insulation | | | | Welding is another high risk job. The metal parts they |
| material called fiberglass. Fiberglass has been known | | | | work with contain a high number of cancer-causing |
| to cause cancer in laboratory animals. Fiberglass is a | | | | pollutants which they inhale. The pollutants are |
| carcinogenic substance, and this has been known for | | | | embedded in the lungs and become a cause for |
| more than 20 years before companies decided to do | | | | deadly diseases. Meanwhile, equipments in oil refineries |
| something about it. More than just fiberglass, though, | | | | contain asbestos. These pieces of equipment include |
| Shipbuilders are most likely to be contaminated with | | | | ovens, driers, furnaces, pumps, and heat exchangers. |
| asbestos as many materials for shipbuilding have | | | | By just being near these pieces of equipment, workers |
| asbestos as a component in varying amounts - | | | | are exposed to the untold risks of lung diseases and |
| therefore shipbuilding is a high risk job. | | | | mesothelioma cancer. |
| Pipe fitting is another high risk job. Pipe fitters are more | | | | All laborers in high risk jobs should seek legal advice |
| exposed to asbestos as this dangerous mineral is the | | | | should they suspect symptoms caused by exposure |
| basic component of pipes and similar materials. Pipe | | | | to asbestos. They all have the right to claim |
| fitters unknowingly inhale the fibers which become | | | | compensation for the undue suffering they are going |
| lodged in their lungs. Contamination from asbestos is | | | | through. |
| always lethal. Although asbestos is seldom used in | | | | |