Were You Exposed to Asbestos as a Construction Worker Now Have MesotheliomaAttorney Joe Williams

You're a construction worker and you've spent
your working life on construction sites -- big and small -- and were exposed to asbestos
in many ways. You've now been diagnosed with mesothelioma. Hi. I'm Joe Williams.

I'm a
mesothelioma trial attorney in New York City and I want to talk to you about some of the
exposures that construction workers face on the job site. Now construction worker is sort
of a broad term to describe many different types of trades and many different types of
work. So over the years, my clients who were construction workers have talked to me about
all the ways they believe they were exposed to asbestos. And there are many ways that
construction workers breathed in asbestos dust.

A construction worker can be doing any
job on a job site. A construction worker may be laying asbestos-containing floor tile - cutting
the tile, sanding it, creating dust that they breathe. A construction worker could be installing
sheet rock and installing the joint compound between the seams of sheet rock, letting it
dry, sanding it down, applying multiple coats, letting it dry, sanding it down -- all creating
dust from the asbestos that was in the joint compound. A construction worker could install
a drop ceiling and cut the individual ceiling tiles, creating asbestos dust because the
ceiling tiles had a component with asbestos in them.

Construction workers can even do
roofing work; on pitched roofs installing shingles on the roofs -- some of which contained
asbestos. On flat roofs, rolling out asbestos felt or asbestos base sheet which contained
asbestos; using asbestos containing mastics and flashing materials on flat roofs. All
these can be exposures to asbestos that construction workers can face. Construction workers also
can be exposed to asbestos dust created by other trades.

A construction worker could
be a classic bystander -- someone standing by for some other trade's work and breathing
in the dust from the other trade's work that is happening in their vicinity. Well these
are all exposures that a construction worker could face on a job site. And I'm sure you
have many questions about how construction workers were exposed to asbestos. Well we
can answer your questions.

I'm Joe Williams. I invite you to call my office at the number
listed below. We represent mesothelioma victims every day. We handle their cases each and
every day and we certainly would like to answer your questions.

Thank you for listening..