The Vermont Health Department says five people who died of a lung ailment linked to exposure to asbestos received that exposure at their jobs, not because of where they lived.
On Wednesday the Health Department issued a report that found that three of five people who died of asbestosis between 1996 and 2005 had worked at a now closed asbestos mine in Eden and Lowell.
The state says two other individuals who died moved to Vermont after developing asbestosis had apparently been exposed in a workplace elsewhere.
The state conducted the latest report after some people questioned a November report that showed people who lived near the mine had higher-than-normal rates of contracting or dying of asbestosis.