How Did You Determine Your Asbestos Exposure?
Mesothelioma survivor Epifanio Figueroa discussed his work history as a mechanical and maintenance engineer and his exposure to asbestos on the job.
Well, Sam asked me where I worked. And would and I told him I had worked in, various companies as a as a mechanical engineer as a maintenance engineer, but then he asked me, do you remember the equipments that you work with that contain asbestos. And I said, hundreds, hundreds of equipments that had asbestos, because I worked in a sugar mill sugar mill, in two sugar mills. I worked in various pharmaceutical plants. I had worked with many equipment, being boilers, the boilers before before my time. They cover the inside of the fire pit with asbestos. Material container asbestos. To, you know, isolate it from the outside. So that's that in the boilers, they use that in the gaskets, gas, asbestos, since it's a good non heat transmitter, they use it in very hot piping. They use it in in clutches, in breaks. In anything that you want to stop heat from. In hot, they use it in covering pumps to to insulate pumps. But also, you know, we found out now that it was bad for the human seen. So so I I used it in pumps, in boilers, in, in piping, in other equipments. And Sam asked me, can you enumerate Can you name all of those? So we did. I that I started to think about it and I started to remember I remember on one occasion. I remember about seventy something companies that use asbestos. And that's From there we started.
