A school located in Mesa, Arizona has recently been fined for a number of violations having to do with asbestos. Noah Webster Basic School, which houses students from pre-kindergarten to sixth grade, was fined a total amount of $2,400.

The fines the charter school received stem from the school officials failing to have proper asbestos testing conducted in order to determine if asbestos is present in the building and due to the lack of an asbestos plan on file with the school in order to know how to correctly handle asbestos.

Exposure to asbestos fibers has been known to result in the development of a number of asbestos-related diseases which include lung cancer, asbestosis, and mesothelioma. Such diseases typically have a considerably long latency period which often means that the diagnosed are left with very limited treatment options. In many cases such a disease is already in its advanced stages of development by the time it is discovered.

Many older schools contain asbestos due to the fact that it was used in a number of building materials throughout the early twentieth century. Use of asbestos did not begin to become regulated until the 1970’s.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency discovered the lack of an asbestos plan at Noah Webster Basic School back in April of 2007. It has now been determined that the school has an asbestos management plan in place.

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