You're a steamfitter.
You've been working your entire life with
asbestos gaskets and pipe covering and now
you've been diagnosed with mesothelioma and
you're struggling with how you're going to
handle your case.
Hi.
I'm Joe Williams.
I'm a mesothelioma trial attorney in New York
City.
And I've represented many, many steamfitters
over the years and I can tell you that their
exposures are always the same.
Steamfitters worked with pipes and gaskets
each and every day and steamfitters helped
to build this city.
And in so doing, they worked at every powerhouse,
built the powerhouses and were exposed to
asbestos gaskets that were in between the
flanges of every pipe in those powerhouses.
The prefabricated gaskets as well as the sheet
gaskets that you cut with thick shears to
fit over those flanges and then you take a
hammer to pound through the flange where the
bolt hole is so you can make that gasket fit
securely.
While you were doing your work, other trades
were working around you.
Insulators were insulating some of the very
same pipes that you were working on and they
were insulating equipment that was nearby
to your work.
And while you working on these pipes and dealing
with these flanges, you were attaching these
pipes to large pieces of equipment like boilers
or pumps.
And those pieces of equipment were covered
with asbestos causing you to be exposed again.
Well there are many ways that steamfitters
were exposed to asbestos, both from their
work and from the work of others in their
working vicinity.
Why am I telling you this?
Because you've been exposed to asbestos.
Over the years, I've represented many members
of the Local 638 Steamfitters Union here in
New York City and each of them has talked
to me (and talked in their deposition in their
case) about their exposures to asbestos gaskets
and asbestos insulation and asbestos pipe
covering.
And if you're a steamfitter, I'm sure you
had many of the same exposures.
I'm sure you have many questions about mesothelioma.
Well, I have the answers to those questions.
I'm Joe Williams.
I invite you to call me at my office at the
number below and we'll answer your questions.
We represent mesothelioma victims every day.
This is what we do and I'd be happy to speak
to you.
Thank you.
