{"id":12946,"date":"2023-03-10T15:38:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T21:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asbestosclaims.law\/?post_type=blog&p=12946"},"modified":"2023-03-10T16:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T22:59:06","slug":"asbestos-lawyer-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.asbestosclaims.law\/es\/asbestos-blog\/asbesto-abogado-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Asbestos Lawyer: Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Asbestos Exposure in Philadelphia<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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While known for its historical importance and sightseeing, Philadelphia also has a major history of asbestos exposure.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Founded in the late 17th<\/sup> century, Philadelphia is among the oldest major cities in the United States. Even today, the City of Brotherly Love takes considerable pride in its past, preserving some of the best-known artifacts of the American Revolution. However, like many of the nation\u2019s outpost of industry, Philadelphia has a lesser-known and more insidious history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For decades, Philadelphia and its suburbs were at the center of the region\u2019s burgeoning asbestos industry. Ambler, scarcely 20 miles from City Hall, was one of the first asbestos factory towns in America<\/a>. Over the course of 100 years, Ambler-based businesses bought, repurposed, and sold a wide variety of asbestos-containing products, from textured wall paints to shingles and brake pads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside of Ambler and within the city-proper, tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians worked with asbestos\u2014in factories, shipyards, and military bases. Nobody knows how many Philadelphia residents were exposed to potentially life-threatening concentrations of asbestos dust and fiber. However, some researchers believe that up to 27 million Americans<\/a> suffered from occupational asbestos exposure<\/a> between 1940 and 1980, with another 1.3 million still at high risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know today that asbestos is an incredibly potent human carcinogen, capable of causing illnesses up to and including cancer. Although the federal government began restricting asbestos supplies between the 1970s and late 1980s<\/a>, thousands of homes, offices, and schools across the Philadelphia metropolitan region remain contaminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you may have been exposed to asbestos, speak with your healthcare provider about tests and screening to help detect the presence of asbestos fibers and <\/strong>asbestos-related diseases<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Philadelphia Asbestos Resources <\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Philadelphia lawmakers have enacted numerous measures to control asbestos across the city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, while the dangers of asbestos are now a matter of common knowledge, the asbestos industry was never ordered to recall its contaminated products\u2014leaving many Philadelphia residents at-risk for asbestos exposure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, the City of Philadelphia has begun compiling registers of asbestos-related resources<\/a>, which include the following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n