Many from closed Ragland factory got mesothelioma
RAGLAND – From 1976 to 1982, Wade Riggs worked hunched over a lathe in a cloud of dust, milling the ends of cement asbestos pipe.
Almost three decades after he was first exposed to asbestos, Riggs has inoperable lung cancer and is unable to work. He coughs up blood and has little appetite; his right leg is numb.
Riggs, 53, blames his former employer, Cement Asbestos Pipe Co., which shut down in 1982. Riggs and other former Capco workers say they were never told their daily exposure to asbestos could scar the lungs, leading to debilitating breathing problems and dramatically increasing chances of contracting lung cancer or mesothelioma, a deadly cancer whose only known cause is asbestos exposure.
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