Asbestos is made up of needle-like fibers that are easily inhaled when disturbed.  The inhalation of these asbestos fibers can lead to serious diseases such as mesothelioma cancer, lung cancer, asbestosis, and pleural fibrosis.

Asbestos is an organically occurring fibrous mineral.  It can be found in many places and objects.  Asbestos is heat resistant and has great strength, durability and flexibility.

Asbestos can be woven into cloth or mixed with other materials to make construction products.  It has been used in a variety of commercial, residential, automotive, and maritime applications.

Asbestos was also used in home building from the 1940s to the 1980s.  If your house was built in that time period, then it probably contains asbestos.

There are many parts of your house that may contain asbestos.  These areas include insulation, door gaskets in furnaces, wood stoves, cement sheeting, millboard and paper used as insulation around furnaces and stoves, insulation of steam pipes, boilers and furnace ducts, cement roofing, shingles and siding, patching and joint compounds, textured paints, acoustical tiles used on the ceiling or walls, spray-on soundproofing, floor tiles, vinyl sheet flooring, and floor tile backings and adhesives.

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You should be very cautious when doing any repair work on a house. Asbestos fibers are released into the air when disturbed and can then be inhaled.

If you think your house might have asbestos, then you should contact a trained and qualified contractor to remove it.  You can also have air samples tested.

A woman from the United  Kingdom has died from mesothelioma.  Her death was not expected since she has never worked in an environment involving asbestos.

Linda and John Sinnett were maried for 35 years.  They had three children together.  John is mourning the loss of his wife and said, “She was full of spirit.  Linda was like the boxer Rocky.  If the cancer knocked her down, she would get up again and fight back.  She was a loving woman who was very close to her family.”

Linda’s exposure to asbestos most likely occurred as a child according to a coroner’s inquest.  The coroner, David Ridley, has concluded that Linda was exposed to the asbestos on her father’s overalls.  When the coveralls were washed, asbestos fibers were released into the air.

Ridley explained, “In all probability the washing was done in the same area as athe kitchen.  Come tea time, he would come home, take his overalls off where plenty of asbestos fibers would be thrown into the same area.  Consequently, this would come into contact with the food and preparation areas and be ingested.”

On behalf of her deceased husband, Willie Mae Denson has filed suit against seven defendant corporations, claiming that his asbestos-related disease was caused by the companies’ failure to test the asbestos-containing products before they were introduced into the stream of commerce.

In this second suit, Mrs. Denson claims a different injury on behalf of her husband, Elijah Denson Sr., a laborer, furnace worker, and carpenter.

The suit also claims that the defendants, A.O. Smith Corp., Babcock Borsig Power, CBS Corp., Cleaver Brooks, General Refractories Co., Ingersoll Rand Co. and Lockheed Martin negligently continued to manufacture the products around which Elijah Denson worked, even after they were aware of the asbestos danger. The suit states that he was unaware of the hazards and defects in the asbestos-containing products.

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