Skilled tradespeople and their labor force built every facility and support system across America. Ordinary construction workers utilized a broad range of materials on the job. For over seven decades, many of these building materials contained a lethal substance called asbestos.<\/p>\n
Asbestos was a staple ingredient in hundreds of building products from the 1920s to the 1980s. This was before the extreme hazards of asbestos became widely known, and conclusive proof revealed that long-term asbestos exposure was the sole cause of mesothelioma<\/a>.<\/p>\n Virtually every home, office building, and factory in America once contained asbestos. Many of them still do. However, most asbestos products<\/a> were phased out in the late 20th century.<\/p>\n Construction workers were consistently exposed to a working environment with high concentrations of airborne asbestos. Whether or not workers were personally installing asbestos materials didn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n Anyone working with asbestos on a job site could expose construction personnel to hazardous fibers. This exposure rate was particularly severe on renovation and demolition jobs.<\/p>\nHow Construction Workers Were Exposed to Asbestos<\/h3>\n