Occupational/Job Site Hazards
Individuals who worked in the trades or jobsites listed below may have been exposed to hazardous asbestos. If you are one of these individuals and have been diagnosed with a work related lung injury, like mesothelioma, you may be eligible to receive worker's compensation benefits.
Work environments in Connecticut where dust inhalation was likely:
- Power plants
- Factories
- Chemical plants
- Shipyards
- Machine shops
- Tool and die shops
- Foundries
- Forging operations
- Any wood-working operations
- Tire plants and rubber-working operations
- Welding
- Sandblasting
- Painting
- Glues, adhesives, epoxies
- Automotive and auto body
- Soldering
- Any metal-working operations
- Any grinding operations
- Steamfitters, boilermakers, carpenters, laborers, sheet metal workers, welders