Occupations Linked to Asbestos Exposure

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Workers from a wide range of industries were exposed to asbestos. This section lists some of those occupations. If you were exposed to asbestos or have an asbestos-related illness like mesothelioma, please contact us for a free legal consultation.

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Occupations with Risk of Exposure to Asbestos

The following list contains examples of those types of occupations that put individuals at risk of asbestos exposure. If you or any of your family members have ever worked with or around these products, you may have been exposed to asbestos:

• aircraft mechanics
• asbestos plant workers
• automobile mechanics
• blacksmiths
• boilermakers
• brick masons
• carpenters
• car shop employees
  
• chemical technicians
• civil engineers
• clothing ironers and pressers
• crane, derrick and hoist men
  
• draftsmen
• drywall tapers
  
• electric power
• linemen & cable men
• electrical engineers
• electricians
• engineers
• excavating machine operators
  
• filers, polishers, buffers
• foremen
• freight and material handlers
• furnace men, smelter-men and pourers
  
• garage workers
• gas station attendants
• grinding machine operatives
  
• heavy equipment mechanics
• household appliance Iinstallers and mechanics
• household residents
• industrial engineer
• industrial plant workers
• insulators
• insurance adjusters
• iron workers
  
• job & die setters
  
• laborers
• locomotive engineers
• longshoremen and stevedores
• loom fixers
  
• machine operatives
• machinists
• maintenance workers
• mechanical engineer
• mechanics & repairmen of aircraft
• merchant marines
• metal lathers
• millwrights
• mixing operatives
• molders
• logging camp workers
  
• officers, pilots and pursers; ship
• oil refinery workers
• operating engineers
  
• painters, construction and maintenance
• painters and sculptors
• pattern and model makers, excluding paper
• personnel and labor relations workers
• pipe fitters
• plasterers
• plumbers
• power plant workers
• railroad workers
• road machine operators
• rollers and finishers
• roofers and slaters
  
• sailors and deckhands
• sales engineer
• sheetmetal workers
• shipbuilders
  
• shipfitters
• ship scrappers
  
• shipyard workers
• stationary engineers
• seamfitters
• steelworkers 
• stone masons
• structural metal craftsmen
• technicians
• telephone installers and repairmen
• textile operatives
• tile setters
• tinsmiths
• tool and die makers
  
• U.S. Navy veterans
  
• welders and flame-cutters

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