Product Identification, or “Product ID”, is Critical Part of a Successful Mesothelioma or Asbestos Cancer Lawsuit as well as any NC Workers Compensation Asbestos Claim
In order to help North Carolina workers and/or their family try to figure out how and where there might have been exposure to asbestos dust in the past that later caused mesothelioma, asbestos-related lung cancer, or asbestosis, we provide some information about the most common asbestos-containing product types.
Thermal Insulation
- Common product types: pipe covering insulation, block insulation, asbestos cloth, insulation cement, asbestos cement, fire bricks, jacketing, asbestos millboard
- Regularly applied to: hot piping, industrial boilers, tanks, turbines, other machinery
- Trades who often used: pipecoverers, insulators, shipyard laborers, utility workers, maintenance workers, railroad workers, other commercial construction trades
Joint Compounds, Plasters, and Patching Compounds
- Common product types: joint compounds, plasters, duct sealants, textures, sealers, coatings, tapes, finishing cement, mastic, fibrous adhesives
- Regularly applied to: walls, ceilings
- Trades who often used: carpenters, drywallers, plasterers, painters, residential contractors, homeowners, residential construction and renovation trades
Gaskets and Packing
- Common product types: gaskets, packing, felt, sheet, rope, wicking, cloth
- Regularly applied to: flanges, valves, pumps, boilers, other piping systems
- Trades who often used: pipefitters, plumbers, boilermakers, millwrights, Navy firemen, boiler tenders, machinist mates, shipyard laborers, utility workers, railroad workers
Friction Materials
- Common product types: brake linings, clutch facings
- Regularly applied to: automobile or truck brake and clutch assemblies, cranes and other heavy equipment, manufacturing machinery, elevators, railroad machinery
- Trades who often used: automobile and truck mechanics, railroad machinists, operating engineers, oilers, elevator mechanics, machinists/machine maintenance, home auto repairers
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Related Page: North Carolina Asbestos Exposure Sites
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