My father has scarred lungs due to this crap. He was sent to W.R. Grace without any PPE or masks for his job (and luckily hasn't been diagnosed with Mesothelioma) but he constantly coughs like he's choking on his own blood. It's sad, as his job was another large company out there (Stars with Honey, ends in Well) as a senior systems analyst and programmer. So many dangerous things like High Voltage access (without electricians license), but the biggest damaging to him, health wise, was being in an asbestos-frying factory with no masks/etc.. In fact, none of the workers that worked in that plant were provided with masks, and this was late 80's/mid-90s.
Still hasn't had a payout from a lawsuit. Think that company is just a P.O. Box and a chair in a rented closet, but no recompensation has been given for this stuff. Asbestos is nasty, once fryable, and can't be gotten rid of easily. even Union Pacific donated their HQ to the city to escape the costly cleanup.