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Trades and Jobs:
- Asbestos product manufacturing (insulation, roofing, building,
materials)
- Automotive repair (brakes & clutches)
- Construction/contractors
- Maritime
- Miners
- Offshore rust removals
- Oil refineries
- Power plants
- Railroads
- Sand or abrasive manufacturers
- Shipyards / ships / ship builders
- Steel mills
- Tile cutters
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- Auto Mechanics
- Boiler makers
- Bricklayers
- Building Inspectors
- Carpenters
- Drywallers
- Electricians
- Floor Coverings
- Furnace Workers
- Glazers
- Grinders
- Hod carriers
- Insulators
- Iron workers
- Laborers
- Longshoremen
- Maintenance workers
- Merchant marines
- Millwrights
- Operating Engineers
- Painters
- Plasterers
- Plumbers
- Roofers
- Sand blasters
- Sheet metal workers
- Steam fitters
- Tile setters
- Welders
- U.S. Navy veterans
- Welders
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There are many occupations that have an increased risk for developing lung cancer from asbestos.
Take for example asbestos insulation workers have 92 times the risk of
developing of lung cancer, and iron smelter workers have 3-8 times the
risk of developing this lung cancer. The lung cancer risk is also greater
in those who have worked in the manufacturing of certain industrial gases,
inorganic pigments,
plastics, pharmaceuticals, soaps, detergents, paints, and synthetic rubber. This risk of developing lung cancer
is related to the amount of exposure to the cancer-causing agent.
Just as with the risk of lung cancer in humans is proportional to
the number of cigarettes smoked. 
Mesothelioma Information