Case Study - Warehouse, landscaping, and facilities-maintenance worker
Short Summary
Age
64
Location
Diagnosis
Mesothelioma
Occupation
Warehouse, landscaping, and facilities-maintenance worker
Suspected Asbestos Exposure
Childhood exposure to farm machinery and equipment maintenance; later years in commercial facilities maintenance
Daniel, a 64-year-old former warehouse and facilities-maintenance worker from El Paso, was diagnosed with mesothelioma after months of pain doctors initially mistook for a rotator cuff injury. His exposure likely traces back to childhood years around aging farm machinery, along with later maintenance jobs across Texas and Arizona. Friends describe him as resilient as he begins treatment.
Full Story
Daniel grew up on a family farm, where he was around aging machinery and equipment from an early age, including brake and clutch repairs done on the property. As an adult, he built a working life across several states — maintaining a warehouse in El Paso, doing landscaping work, and later working in facilities maintenance for a large corporate employer in Arizona before returning to Texas to do maintenance work for a local nonprofit.
Persistent pain that doctors first mistook for a rotator cuff injury turned out, after months of testing, to be mesothelioma. Friends describe Daniel as resilient and soft-spoken, and he continues to advocate for himself as he begins cancer treatment.
Daniel’s early exposure came without him even understanding what asbestos was — brake and clutch repairs on farm equipment were simply part of keeping the operation running. Decades later, in his warehouse and facilities-maintenance jobs, he again found himself working near aging insulation and equipment that had never been updated. Friends who have known him for years describe someone who rarely complained, even as his pain worsened in the months before his diagnosis.
How Danziger & De Llano Helped
Piecing together Daniel’s exposure meant looking back decades earlier than most cases — to childhood chores on a family farm — and then forward through jobs in three different states. Danziger & De Llano documented both ends of that timeline, gathering the records that remained from his warehouse and facilities-maintenance employers in Texas and Arizona while capturing his firsthand recollection of the farm equipment he grew up around, work that supported his completed claim.