As many as 2,000 Puget Sound-area residents suffering from asbestos-induced illness could be compensated under a settlement reached earlier this week with bankrupt building material maker Owens Corning, a Seattle attorney involved in the settlement said. This region's shipbuilding, aluminum smeltering and wood-product industries all heavily used asbestos, said the attorney, Matthew Bergman. "These industries employed thousands of workers in Washington state from the 1940s through the 1970s," he said. "As a result, Washington has the second-highest rate of asbestos-related cancer in the nation." To recover, claimants must be seriously ill from exposure to asbestos at a job site where Owens Corning's products were used. The spouses of people killed by exposure can also recover.