Firefighters’ Families and Secondhand Exposure to Asbestos
- Albany Felt Company
- Alcan
- Alco - American Locomotive
- Alcoa
- Bausch & Lomb
- Beech Nut
- Bethlehem Steel
- Blue Circle Cement
- Borg-Warner
- Bristol-Myers
- Brooklyn Navy Yard
- Carborundum Company
- Carrier Corporation
- Chevrolet
- Ciba Geigy-Hercules
- Columbian Rope Company
- Domino Sugar
- Eastman Kodak
- Fairchild Republic
- Garlock
- General Electric - Auburn
- General Electric - Fort Edward
- General Electric - Hornell
- General Electric - Hudson Falls
- General Electric - Waterford
- General Foods
- General Motors
- GM - Tonawanda Engine
- Honeywell
- IBM - Hopewell Junction
- IBM - Kingston
- IBM - Owego
- IBM - Poughkeepsie
- IBM - Yorktown
- International Paper
- International Wire
- Kraft Foods
- Lockheed Martin
- Nabisco
- Nestle
- Northrop Grumman
- Occidental Chemical
- Revere Copper
- Revere Smelting
- Reynolds Metal Company
- Seneca Army Depot
- Stauffer Chemical
- Union Fork & Hoe
- Wabash Alloys
- Wyeth-Ayerst
- Xerox
Firefighters can carry asbestos dust home on their clothes, bodies, hair or gear and unknowingly expose their families to asbestos. According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, people have died of mesothelioma in the United States as a result of secondhand exposure to asbestos.
Helping Families Harmed by Asbestos
Firefighters are at risk of exposure to asbestos because of the nature of their jobs.
Asbestos is used less today, but many older houses and buildings where fires are most common still contain asbestos building materials. Asbestos is hazardous if it is disturbed and crumbles and turns to dust.
