Machine Room Walls
Until only recently, asbestos was widely used in a number of industrial and consumer products. For years, asbestos was frequently installed in factories, machine rooms, and similar workplaces during construction or renovation. The use of asbestos insulation in machine room walls was rampant during the asbestos industry boom in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. In fact, until the 1970s asbestos insulation was the first choice of factory owners and corporations for use in machine room walls and ceilings because asbestos is cheap, readily available, and conducts heat poorly, making it an effective insulator. As a result of this popularity of asbestos material, pre-1980 factories and buildings that house machine rooms are likely to contain asbestos insulation in the machine room walls. This asbestos insulation may pose a great threat to the safety of machine room workers, who may aspirate friable asbestos fibers if the insulation is disrupted or disturbed during renovation by an unlicensed contractor. Your business or workplace could be one of the many unsafe, asbestos-contaminated buildings scattered throughout the country, and you and your co-workers could be made ill by these hazardous materials.
Why do so many machine room walls contain asbestos? Of course, profit is a huge factor in the world of industry, and for a long time, asbestos was a profitable material. Manufacturers produced tons of asbestos insulation during these booming decades, making the material easy and cheap to purchase. Asbestos is lightweight, durable, and conforms to a great number of uses and applications, so it quickly became the standard insulation material for building and development contractors. Who profited from the wide-ranging distribution of asbestos insulation in machine room walls everywhere? Not the workers who manufactured the asbestos. Not the contractors who installed the asbestos. Certainly not the machine room workers, exposed hour after hour to asbestos dust and friable particles. Only the manufacturers of asbestos products profit, the bigwigs, safe and secure in their asbestos-free offices. Today, far from those cushy offices, machine room walls everywhere may be crawling with asbestos, and workers in these machine rooms are no doubt at risk of being exposed.
When workers are exposed to asbestos hiding behind machine room walls, they may develop mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer, or any other of the many serious illnesses caused by exposure to asbestos. These illnesses are life threatening and are difficult to discover and treat. In the case of mesothelioma, a worker may have lived for five or more decades with the developing disease before symptoms rear their ugly heads. By this time, the prognosis is harrowing at best, and treatment for his mesothelioma may be futile. This innocent victim has probably in this factory for decades, unaware that behind the machine rooms walls that surround him lies a nefarious, deadly material. Yet, manufacturers of asbestos have known for decades that asbestos is a scourge, that exposure to microscopic asbestos particles are utterly devastating. So why didn't they discontinue their asbestos insulation products? Why didn't they give this ailing family man the information - the chance for life - that he deserves?
The manufacturers of asbestos products don't care about your rights or well-being. Get help from someone who does! If you believe you have been exposed to asbestos in the workplace or at home, call an attorney. The right attorney is knowledgeable about asbestos-related claims and will help you secure the justice you deserve. Act now - contact an attorney today.
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