Maintenance workers play a vital role in all aspects of a military base. They keep up with the day-to-day maintenace functions that arise daily on military bases. Maintenance workers service and maintain the facilities and systems that keep the bases going, from fixing a light bulb to maintaining the machinery in one of many buildings.
Unfortunately, many industrial buildings – especially those built before the mid-1970s – contain asbestos.
Asbestos is a fibrous mineral that was once widely used in factories and other buildings as an insulator and protective covering for piping, machinery, and in the walls, floors, and ceilings of the buildings themselves. It is this “legacy asbestos” that is largely responsible for the huge numbers of maintenance workers with mesothelioma today.
When outdated building components that have asbestos in them are disturbed, asbestos dust is produced. And in most factories, maintenance workers are the only people who enter these potentially asbestos-saturated areas – hence the frequency of mesothelioma in maintenance workers.
Maintenance workers with asbestos exposure deserve just compensation for their injuries. The specialist lawyers of Johnson Law Group are experts in advising maintenance workers with mesothelioma of their rights under the law, and in obtaining for them the compensation they are owed.
