Asbestos Exposure from Work Clothes is a Hidden Danger at Home. This is called take-home asbestos exposure, and it’s now a recognized legal claim. Courts have acknowledged that companies knew asbestos could be transferred from the workplace into the home — and failed to warn workers or families.
He worked the shifts. She folded the laundry.
But neither of them knew that asbestos could come home on his clothes.
For decades, plants like PPG Natrium, Weirton Steel, and U.S. Steel Clairton Works used asbestos in insulation, gaskets, and packing. When workers came home, the asbestos didn’t stay behind. It clung to their jackets, boots, and work uniforms — eventually ending up in bedrooms, laundry baskets, and lungs.
Many women — wives, daughters, mothers — were diagnosed with mesothelioma or asbestos-related lung cancer, even though they never set foot in a plant. The cause?
Asbestos exposure from work clothes brought home every night.
🧾 What the Companies Knew
Records show that employers were aware of the dangers. They installed ventilation systems to protect machinery but not people. They warned supervisors but not workers.
And they never told anyone to bag or isolate contaminated clothing before heading home.
Now, decades later, families are still living with the consequences.
⚖️ If You’re Facing This, You Still Have Options
If your spouse, mother, or sister has been diagnosed with an asbestos-related illness — and someone in your household worked at:
- PPG Natrium
- Weirton Steel
- U.S. Steel Irvin or Clairton
- Duquesne Light
- Or any other major industrial job site in the Ohio Valley…
…you may be entitled to compensation.
The law allows you to file a claim even if the worker has passed away, and even if the exposure happened years ago. The deadline doesn’t begin until diagnosis.
📞 Call (412) 781-0525
Asbestos exposure from work clothes is real — and justice is still possible.