Domestic exposure
Men working with asbestos often brought it home with them as dust, because laundering facilities for coveralls were not usually provided by their employers.

Family members of asbestos workers are therefore also at risk of developing malignant mesothelioma, especially women laundering asbestos-dust laden clothes, or those cleaning dust shed into furnishings, carpets, drapes and upholstery.

Domestic exposure has been reported to occur in up to 15% of malignant mesothelioma cases according to one source, although in another study 26% of cases were in family members of asbestos work