A resident of Wheeling, Ohio has recently filed a complaint with the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department as well as with the city’s building inspection department regarding a dilapidated hotel located in the downtown area. Larry Tighe is concerned that the old Rogers Hotel may contain asbestos as a sign on the building points to the fact that the building is fireproof.

Many buildings constructed during the early to mid-twentieth contain asbestos that was used for fireproofing. Use of asbestos didn’t begin to become regulated until the 1970’s when congress formed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Today much of the asbestos materials that were once used are being removed from buildings in order to avoid exposure to the dangerous substance.

Asbestos-containing materials must be removed if they have been disturbed due to the fact that such disturbances will render the substance friable. When asbestos becomes friable it may be inhaled and may result in the development of any one of a number of asbestos-related diseases. Such diseases include mesothelioma, asbestosis, and lung cancer. The long latency period of asbestos-caused diseases often leaves the diagnosed with very few effective treatment options.

Tighe has stated that his concern regarding the asbestos arises from the fact that there are broken windows and collapsed plaster in the building. Such conditions may give asbestos fibers an opportunity to escape the confines of the building.

Officials are at this point unsure of whom the owner of the building located on 14th Street is but are in the process of conducting a title search in order to make that determination.

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