In the last month alone, asbestos contamination has plagued a veterans’ medical center in Denver, construction workers rehabbing a school in southern Illinois as well as an elementary school in the state, and potentially, a popular river and drinking water source in Colorado. Two Illinois construction companies, Kehrer Brothers Construction and D7 Roofing, face nearly $2 million in fines after inspectors with the federal Occupational Safety and Healthy Administration found that they had directed workers to remove asbestos and asbestos-laced materials from a school in Okawville, Ill., without the required training or equipment.
