Yep, I had two known asbestos exposures (demo of mine building structure with asbestos sheathing and sanding of asbestos linoleum in an office I worked in) and lots of undocumented ones. Asbestos in old plaster, asbestos in old fluorescent fixture wiring, old drop ceiling tiles.
My boss said there was wasn't any asbestos in the type A wire in the fixtures. I cut a wire in half, gave 1/2 of it to him and sent the other half off to a testing lab for analysis on my own dime. Turned out an old geezer like me knows when he sees type A wire. My lab got results back about 1 month before county did.
Showed him a copy of the report and never touched an old fixture again after the "consultant" for the county who had been denying the existence of asbestos in the buildings for years caved in.
Turns out you had to volunteer for asbestos remediation, be trained, and supplied with PPE and -- get this -- paid an added $10 per day while doing it. They got one of the dumber electricians to deal with it without any of the required things I just listed. This was after I showed him what the wire looked like and the MSDS for it. Beats me!