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20 Percent of asbestos disease cases are from exposición de segunda mano. ¹

!	Si cree que estuvo expuesto al asbesto, incluso cuando era niño, hable con un proveedor de atención médica sobre pruebas y exámenes para ayudar a diagnosticar cicatrices pulmonares y detectar enfermedades relacionadas con enfermedades relacionadas con el asbesto.

Las personas que trabajaron en estas industrias antes de mediados de la década de 1980 tienen un mayor riesgo de desarrollar enfermedades relacionadas con el asbesto:
Construcción	Fábricas	Fundiciones	Refinerías	Astilleros	Minería / Molienda
Demolición	Aislamiento	Trabajadores del acero	Instalación de tuberías	Construcción naval	Mecánicos
Techumbre	Textiles	Trabajadores del hierro	Calderas	Extinción de incendios	Reparación de frenos
Piso	Cemento	Electricistas	Reparación de juntas	Ferrocarril	Climatización
Desafortunadamente también lo hacen sus familias.

Second-hand Asbestos Exposure and Children

Families of asbestos workers are at greater risk of asbestos illnesses like cáncer de pulmón.² ³ ⁴ ⁵

What is second-hand asbestos exposure?
	For many decades, asbestos companies were not honest about the dangers of their products, and millions of industrial workers were exposed to asbestos without any protective gear, air cleaning equipment, filters or even masks to prevent asbestos diseases como el cáncer de pulmón, asbestosis y mesotelioma.
	So those workers often had asbestos dust on their work clothes, shoes and tools, and brought this asbestos with them into family vehicles and homes. As such, those primarily exposed to asbestos can become sources of secondary exposure to asbestos.
	Family members – including children – not only came into regular contact with them before the asbestos-contaminated clothing and dust was removed and washed.
	Spouses and children also spent time in vehicles and enclosed spaces like garages and laundry rooms, and in many cases even participated in washing the asbestos-covered clothing.
	Children are perhaps more vulnerable than adults to be affected by Second-hand asbestos exposure. They also have more life ahead than their elders, and face a higher risk of enfermedades relacionadas con el asbesto because of latency factor and dose response.

Can Minor Occasional Second-hand Asbestos Exposure be Dangerous? (Unfortunately, yes.)

“La evidencia general sugiere que no existe un nivel seguro de exposición al asbesto”. no hay nivel seguro de exposición al asbesto."

Fuente: Instituto Nacional del Cáncer (NIH)⁶

Did you know?
Asbestos was the first substance regulated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
	Asbestos is an industrial name for a group of minerals that are made of tiny, strong fibers that resist heat, fire, rust, chemicals, and electricity.
Asbestos has no taste or smell, so you may not know if you’re breathing it.
	Most asbestos diseases do not appear until 20 years after exposure, and up to 40 or 50 years later.
Family members with second-hand exposure to a worker’s asbestos qualify for money from multiple asbestos trusts, even if they weren’t employees.

Can someone sue for second-hand asbestos exposure?

(Yes, but they also can receive compensation sin un juicio.)

There is compensation for second-hand asbestos exposure.

In 2018, the US Supreme Court stated that second-hand asbestos health damage is real.

“It has been repeatedly and consistently demonstrated in the medical and scientific literature that family members exposed to asbestos dust from laundering a worker’s clothing have a significantly increased risk of developing mesothelioma."

-U.S. Supreme Court, 2018.

Air and Liquid Systems Corp. v. DeVries, 139 S. Ct. 986, 586 U.S., 203 L. Ed. 2d 373 (2019).

In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that since 1960, the health researchers had proven conclusively that people living with someone exposed to asbestos at work – despite never working around asbestos – were at a higher risk of asbestos related diseases and cancer like mesothelioma.

Get the facts.

Second-hand asbestos exposure is asbestos exposure.

Families of asbestos workers were often exposed to asbestos dust on work clothing. They are at an elevated risk of asbestos health damage.

El asbesto es muy polvoriento. También es microscópico y sus diminutas fibras afiladas se adhieren a casi cualquier cosa.

Muchos trabajadores industriales trajeron asbesto a casa en su ropa de trabajo, exponiendo a cualquiera que los lavara o entrara en contacto con ellos al compartir un garaje, baño, casa o vehículo.

Asbestos may look like dust, but even small amounts in the air – impossible to see – embed in the lungs and bodily tissue, and over many decades cause health damage including difficulty breathing, and even cancer.

Asbestos fibers can be microscopic, and have no taste or smell, so you may not know when you are breathing them.

De hecho, un estudio de toxicología encontró que lavar ropa con polvo de asbesto puede exponer a una persona a casi la mitad del polvo que un trabajador que corta una tubería de asbesto con una sierra abrasiva. ⁷

People who experience second-hand asbestos exposure (‘take home’ exposure) can develop symptoms of asbestos-related disease at a higher rate than people who were never exposed.

Compartir una casa o un vehículo con alguien que usa ropa contaminada con asbesto lo pone en riesgo de contraer enfermedades relacionadas con el asbesto.3 ⁸

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For almost a century, the asbestos industry hid what it knew about the dangers of asbestos from workers and their families.

The asbestos industry had research as early as the 1930s that asbestos causes cancer. Rather than publish it, alert the public or study it further – they buried the results.

Health Research on Second-Hand Exposure

Studies showing the elevated risks of asbestos diseases for families of industrial workers:

Tompa E, Kalcevich C, McLeod C, Lebeau M, Song C, McLeod K, et al. The economic burden of lung cancer and mesothelioma due to occupational and para-occupational asbestos exposureOcupar Medio Ambiente 2017; 74: 816-22.

Goswami, E., Craven, V., Dahlstrom, D.L., Alexander, D. and Mowat, F., 2013. Domestic asbestos exposure: a review of epidemiologic and exposure data. International journal of environmental research and public health, 10(11), pp.5629-5670.

target=”_blank”>The health impact of nonoccupational exposure to asbestos: what do we know?, Goldberg M, Luce D., Eur J Cancer Prev. 2009 Nov;18(6):489-503. doi: 10.1097/CEJ.0b013e32832f9bee. PMID: 19617842; PMCID: PMC3499908.

İşten, B.H.S.T.O. and Maruziyetler, E.T., 2021. Exposures Moved from Work to Home as a Public Health Hazard.

Ferrante, D., Bertolotti, M., Todesco, A., Mirabelli, D., Terracini, B. and Magnani, C., 2007. Cancer mortality and incidence of mesothelioma in a cohort of wives of asbestos workers in Casale Monferrato, Italy. Environmental Health Perspectives, 115(10), pp.1401-1405.

Reid, A., Heyworth, J., De Klerk, N. and Musk, A.W., 2008. The mortality of women exposed environmentally and domestically to blue asbestos at Wittenoom, Western Australia. Occupational and environmental medicine, 65(11), pp.743-749.

Miller, A., 2005. Mesothelioma in household members of asbestos‐exposed workers: 32 United States cases since 1990. American journal of industrial medicine, 47(5), pp.458-462.

Abelmann, A., Maskrey, J.R., Lotter, J.T., Chapman, A.M., Nembhard, M.D., Pierce, J.S., Wilmoth, J.M., Lee, R.J. and Paustenbach, D.J., 2017. Evaluación de la exposición al asbesto en el hogar por manipulación ropa de trabajo contaminada con asbesto después del aserrado abrasivo de tubería de cemento. Inhalation Toxicology, 29(12-14), pp.555-566

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1.- Tompa E, Kalcevich C, McLeod C, Lebeau M, Song C, McLeod K, et al. La carga económica del cáncer de pulmón y el mesotelioma debido a la exposición ocupacional y paraocupacional al asbesto. Occup Environ Med 2017; 74: 816-22..

2.- Ferrante, D., Bertolotti, M., Todesco, A., Mirabelli, D., Terracini, B. and Magnani, C., 2007. Cancer mortality and incidence of mesothelioma in a cohort of wives of asbestos workers in Casale Monferrato, Italy. Environmental Health Perspectives, 115(10), pp.1401-1405.

3.- Miller, A., 2005. Mesothelioma in household members of asbestos‐exposed workers: 32 United States cases since 1990. American journal of industrial medicine, 47(5), pp.458-462.

4.- Reid, A., Heyworth, J., De Klerk, N. and Musk, A.W., 2008. The mortality of women exposed environmentally and domestically to blue asbestos at Wittenoom, Western Australia. Occupational and environmental medicine, 65(11), pp.743-749.

5.- İşten, B.H.S.T.O. and Maruziyetler, E.T., 2021. Exposures Moved from Work to Home as a Public Health Hazard.

6.- National Cancer Institute (NIH), Hoja informativa sobre el asbesto

7.- Abelmann, A., Maskrey, J.R., Lotter, J.T., Chapman, A.M., Nembhard, M.D., Pierce, J.S., Wilmoth, J.M., Lee, R.J. and Paustenbach, D.J., 2017. Evaluación de la exposición al asbesto en el hogar por manipulación ropa de trabajo contaminada con asbesto después del aserrado abrasivo de tubería de cemento. Inhalation Toxicology, 29(12-14), pp.555-566.

8.- Anua, S.M., Semple, S., Shakri, S.F.M., Safuan, S., Mazlan, N. and Asri, A.A.M., 2019. A review of the take-home exposure pathway of workplace hazards. International Journal of Medical Toxicology & Legal Medicine, 22(3and4), pp.13-19. s

20 Percent of asbestos disease cases are from exposición de segunda mano. 1

Si cree que estuvo expuesto al asbesto, incluso cuando era niño, hable con un proveedor de atención médica sobre pruebas y exámenes para ayudar a diagnosticar cicatrices pulmonares y detectar enfermedades relacionadas con enfermedades relacionadas con el asbesto.

Las personas que trabajaron en estas industrias antes de mediados de la década de 1980 tienen un mayor riesgo de desarrollar enfermedades relacionadas con el asbesto:

Desafortunadamente también lo hacen sus familias.