A Canadian asbestos worker has been fined $15,000 for failing to adhere to a stop-work order levied by government officials.
According to Daily Commercial News and Construction Record, Marcelo Ponciano was fined $15,000 by the Ontario Court of Justice after refusing to cooperate with Ministry of Labour inspectors. Ponciano,a
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The widow of an Illinois man who died of lung cancer has accused the Illinois Central Railroad Company of exposing her husband to dangerous levels of asbestos.
According to the St. Clair Record, Katherine Jackson has sued the company and seeks more than $200,000 in reparations. She claims thatasbestos
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A West Virginia man diagnosed with mesothelioma earlier this year is blaming 116 companies for failing to warn him about asbestos exposure.
According to the West Virginia Record, Pete Davis recently filed a lawsuit claiming that he should have been informed about health risks during his career as aproduction
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The Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia (WorkSafeBC) has launched a new website to raise awareness about the deadly repercussions of asbestos exposure.
According to the journal Canadian Safety Reporter, the site is the first of its kind and is part of WorkSafeBC's efforts to alert people about whereasbestos
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An Iowa developer was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison on June 22 for conspiring to ignore asbestos regulations during a renovation project in downtown Des Moines.
Bob Knapp pleaded guilty in March to two charges of intentionally evading federal asbestos removal policies while leading a construction projectat
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