A woman can go forward with her asbestos-based personal injury lawsuit against several companies that allegedly supplied products to the Westchester County Department of Laboratories and Research, where she worked in the 1970s.

An Appellate Division, Third Department, panel has ruled Eileen O’Connor, diagnosed in 2015 with pleural mesothelioma, can proceed against defendants Fisher Scientific Co., Thomas Scientific and VWR International. Other named defendants were not addressed in the opinion.