Many boilers contain asbestos. Boilermakers are at risk of developing mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos exposure.

Boilermakers build, install and repair steam and hot water boilers. Many boilers contain asbestos because asbestos is heat and fire resistant. Asbestos is a mineral that is known to cause cancers such as lung cancer and mesothelioma. Many boilermakers and others who worked with boilers were unaware of the dangers of asbestos. There is some evidence however, to indicate that many companies in the asbestos industry were aware of the fatal dangers of asbestos but chose to use it nonetheless because asbestos is inexpensive.

Boilermakers are at highest risk of asbestos exposure when they cut, hammer or otherwise disturb a boiler that contains asbestos. These activities can result in the release of lethal asbestos fibers. Once released, asbestos fibers can be inhaled by people nearby. Inhaled asbestos fibers can become trapped in the lungs and result in lung cancer or mesothelioma decades later.

Weitz & Luxenberg mesothelioma lawyers win $75 million for a boilermaker with mesothelioma

Mesothelioma is often the result of injustice. The injustice is the failure of asbestos manufacturing companies to disclose the deadly dangers of asbestos. The mesothelioma lawyers of Weitz & Luxenberg won a $47 million verdict for a boilermaker who developed mesothelioma. The boilermaker had become exposed to asbestos while working for various contractors in the 1960s and 1970s.

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