Lawyer, minister say blue-collar workers exposed during construction should be taken care of like plaintiffs in lease dispute
One day after the San Diego City Council agreed to pay $86 million for a downtown high-rise that is unsafe to occupy, workers who say they were exposed to asbestos in 101 Ash St. gathered on the building’s patio to demand compensation of their own.
The event on the west steps of the 19-story office tower was meant to draw attention to a spate of lawsuits against the city of San Diego that are unrelated to the claims a majority of council members agreed to settle on Tuesday.The workers say they were wrongly exposed to asbestos during renovations of the former Sempra Energy headquarters in the few weeks during which the building was open to the public before being evacuated more than two years ago.
Shea said one client received the equivalent of 30 years’ general asbestos exposure in just three days of working inside the Ash Street property. He said another man was recently diagnosed with a spot on his lung and is scheduled to undergo a CAT scan.The City Attorney’s Office said Wednesday it does not comment on ongoing litigation.
But remodeling efforts went sideways after city officials boosted the number of employees scheduled to move into the building to 1,100. But county regulators cited the city for repeated asbestos violations, and work on the project was halted for some three weeks.Soon after the building opened to the public in December 2019 — “on time and on budget,” one city official said at the time — the county issued a new violation and declared the building a public nuisance.
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