Residents contact our team after they connect symptoms or a diagnosis to something that happened in their day-to-day environment. Common Cleveland-area scenarios include:
- Residential lawn and garden use: mixing, spraying, or treating weeds during peak seasons, then later handling trimmings or mowing treated areas.
- Landscaping and groundskeeping work: applying weed control for businesses, property management companies, schools, or industrial sites.
- Agricultural and rural property maintenance: working near fields or fence lines where herbicides are applied.
- Secondhand exposure: family members exposed through contaminated clothing, boots, gloves, or tools stored in garages and sheds.
Because exposure can be scattered across years, many people don’t realize what to document until after a diagnosis. That’s why case evaluation usually begins with reconstructing an exposure timeline and matching it to medical records.


