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Potential Asbestos Exposure
Trades, Locations and Unions

TRADES

Any trade where you believe you may have worked with or around others who worked with Asbestos containing products.

You, yourself, did not have to work with Asbestos to be exposed; the mere presence of Asbestos dust in your workplace and your inhalation of Asbestos dust warrants a chest X-Ray.


Any Navy exposure at any time
Any Coast Guard exposure any time
Any merchant marine employment at any time
Any construction workers
Any railroad workers
Any refinery workers (Oil, Sugar or other)
Brewery workers
Anyone who ever worked in a boiler room or engine room at any location

  • Welders
  • Mechanics
  • Pipefitters
  • Electricians
  • Painters
  • Steamfitters
  • Cement masons
  • Chippers
  • Caulkers
  • Copper refining
  • Shipwrights
  • Carpenters
  • Sheetmetal workers
  • Roofers
  • Cleaners
  • Riggers
  • Insulators
  • Boilermakers
  • Furnaceman
  • Joiners
  • Industrial engineers
  • Brick or stone masons
  • Labor relations workers
  • Chemical technicians
  • Blacksmiths
  • Electrical engineers
  • Forgemen and hammermen
  • Job and die setters, metal Machinists
  • Household appliance
  • Building inspectors
  • Garage workers
  • Hairdressers / cosmetologists
  • Home repair work - non occupational
  • Brake changes - non occupational
  • Dentists - used asbestos tape in casting investments in dental school and beyond.
  • Plasterers
  • Auto mechanic and/or break repair
  • Plumbers
  • Construction workers (commercial and/or residential)
  • Concrete workers
  • Acoustical sprayers
  • HVAC
  • Flooring
  • Ceiling installation
  • Drywall installation
  • Crane work
  • Fire protection
  • Masonry
  • Millwrights
  • Painters
  • Any pipe insulation, fabrication
  • Scaffolding
  • Structural fabrication
  • Tile work
  • Ventilating and exhaust systems
  • Mechanical engineers
  • Power station operators
  • Teachers
  • Building superintendents
  • Cranemen, derrickmen, hoistmen
  • Electric power linemen and cablemen
  • Heat treaters, annealers and temperers
  • Locomotive engineers
  • Aircraft mechanics and repairmen
  • Rollers and finishers, metal installers and mechanics
  • Telephone installers and repairmen
  • Filers, polishers, sanders, buffers
  • Gas station attendants

WORKSITES (list incomplete - there are countless sites of exposure)

  • Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
  • New York Shipyard (Phila area, Camden, New Jersey)
  • Mathis Shipyard
  • New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, New York
  • Cramp Shipyard
  • Arco Refinery
  • Atlantic Refinery
  • BP Refinery
  • Gulf Oil Refinery
  • Mobile Oil Refinery
  • Texaco Refinery
  • Sun Oil Refinery
  • RCA - Moorestown, Camden, New Jersey
  • DuPont (Gibbstown, Wilmington, other)
  • Campbell Soup
  • Brand Insulations
  • Porter Hayden
  • Flintkote
  • Franklin Institute
  • PECO
  • RTC Shipbuilding
  • Keystone Shipbuilding
  • Todd Shipyard
  • Sparrows Point Shipyard - Baltimore
  • Chemical Companies - Amspec/Harshaw
  • Chemical Co, Rhom & Haas
  • Jack Frost Sugar Refinery
  • National Sugar Refinery
  • Domino Sugar Refinery
  • Westinghouse Corporation
  • Nabisco Co.
  • U.S. Steel
  • Alanwood Steel
  • A.P. Green Refractories
  • Badenhausen Corp. (Riley Stoker Corp),
  • Cornwell Heights PA
  • Baldwin Locomotive (Eddystone PA)
  • Bethlehem Steel
  • Boeing Vertol
  • Boston Navy Yard
  • Brooklyn Shipyard (New York Naval Shipyward, Brooklyn, NY)
  • Budd Co. (Hunting Park and Red Lion plants)
  • Certainteed
  • Charleston Naval Shipyard
  • Universal Insulation
  • Achenbach & Butler
  • Schmidts Brewing
  • Yuengling Brewery
  • City Hall or City Hall Annex
  • Underwood Memorial Hospital
  • ANY hospital worker (Rolling Hill, Haverford State, St. Christophers, Delaware Valle, Pennsylvania, Nazareth, Graduate, HUP)
  • Keasby Mattison (Ambler PA)
  • Philadelphia Gas Works
  • Mathis Shipbuilding
  • Newport News Shipyard, VA
  • Norfolk Navy Yard - Norfolk VA
  • Salem Nuclear Power Plant, Hancocks Bridge NJ)
  • Owens Corning Fiberglas - Berlin NJ, Barrington NJ)
  • Owens Illinois plant - Bridgeton, Sayreville, NJ, Berlin NJ
  • Philadelphia Asbestos Co. (PACOR) succ. to Philadelphia Asbestos Co.
  • Philip Carey Co., a/k/a Celotex Corp, Allied Corp., or Barretts)
  • Atlantic City Powerhouse
  • Publicker Industries
  • School district employees
  • GE (Chestnut St, Valley Forge, Elmwood Ave. or other), Local 119 (I.U.E.)
  • General Steel Castings Co. (Eddystone PA)
  • Cherry Hill Mall
  • Maintenance or upkeep work, or construction in any commercial building
  • Smith Kline French (a/k/a SmithKline Beecham)
  • Frankford Arsenal
  • Hopeman Brothers
  • Ray Engineering, Phila., PA
  • Baldwin Locomotive
  • Sun Shipbuilding
  • Atlantic Richfield
  • Delaware Shp
  • Westinghouse, Lester, PA
  • Brooklyn Naval Shipyard
  • Peltz Rowley
  • Any plumbing entity (installation, repairs, distribution, sales)
  • Fels/Purex
  • Reading Industries - copper refinery
  • Ernest D. Menold, Inc.
  • Integrity Tile Co., Camden, NJ
  • Abel Weideman, Inc.
  • Bishop Shanahan High School, West Chester, PA (old school - Gay & Everhart Sts.)
  • Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW)
  • U.S. Steel Barrel Co., Water & Moore Sts. Phila 19143
  • Heim Electric - Harrisburg
  • Congoleum

© B.P. Schaffzin, Shein Law Center, Ltd. 1999

UNIONS (incomplete list)

  • Local 98 - Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
  • Local 14 - Int Assoc of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers
  • Local 420
  • Local 690 - Plumbers
  • Local 126 - IBEW
  • Local 81 - Plasterers & Cement Masons
  • Local 93
  • Local 19 - Sheetmetal Workers
  • Locals 32 & 42 - Laggers
  • Local 454 - Carpenters
  • Local 328
  • Local 620
  • Local 542 - Crane operators
  • Local 402 - Electricians
  • Locals 401 & 399 - Iron workers
  • Local 82 - Coppersmiths
  • Locals 46 & 47 - Bricklayers
  • AFL-CIO/CLC - Local No. 686, SEIU
  • Chester Local 574 - Plasterers
  • Phila Local 8 - Plasterers (Intl Assoc of Heat & Frost Insulators)
  • Local 13 - Boilermakers
  • United Brothers of Carpenters & Joiners of America
  • Local 592
  • Local 107 - United Electrical, Radio &
  • Machine Workers
  • United Assoc. of Journeymen, Pipefitters, Plumbers, Steamfitters & Refrigeration Workers
  • Local 690 - Plumbers local
  • OCAW
  • Carpenters Regional Council
  • Cement Masons Local #592
  • Laborers District Council
  • Rodsetters Local #405
  • Operating Engineers Local #542

© B.P. Schaffzin, Shein Law Center, Ltd. 1999

ASBESTOS MATERIAL AND PRODUCTS

  • Pipe covering
  • Block
  • Insulating cement
  • Gaskets
  • Rope packing
  • Spray-on insulation
  • Refractory materials
  • Cement pipe
  • Cement board / drywall
  • Roofing compound / roofing materials
  • Powder
  • Joint compound
  • Ceiling tile
  • Floor tile
  • Brakes
  • Clutches
  • Cloth
  • Values
  • Fireproof clothing
  • Kent cigarette filters (1952-56)
  • Ironing board
  • Grinding wheels
  • Paint
  • Electrical wire
  • Electrical motors
  • Boilers
  • Hot water heaters
  • Plumbing products

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