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Dudley Maasz, a former employee of Great Western Railway in the United Kingdom, died in July 2006 from mesothelioma, a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Mesothelioma diagnoses have been on the rise in individuals who were negligently exposed to asbestos fibers by their employers in the mechanical, construction, and manufacturing industries as well as [...]
A 59-year-old man has recently been awarded $14 million in a suit claiming that he contracted mesothelioma from being exposed to asbestos. A jury found that a chemical manufacturing company, Union Carbide, was negligent in the case for selling asbetos fibers to other companies. The 57-year-old man was exposed to this asbestos when working for [...]
Author Deborah Rudacille based her book Roots of Steel on the mill workers of Bethlehem Steel in Dundalk, Maryland. Rudacille herself grew up there, but she moved away after going to college. She came back in order to talk to the retired steel workers who had made up the hard-working population there until the steel [...]
Author Deborah Rudacille based her book Roots of Steel on the mill workers of Bethlehem Steel in Dundalk, Maryland. Rudacille herself grew up there, but she moved away after going to college. She came back in order to talk to the retired steel workers who had made up the hard-working population there until the steel [...]
After paying an overdue $13,000 tax bill, the Dirigo Young Marines are once again the owners of the former Harris Baking Co. building in Waterville, Maine. The former owner had deeded it to the Young Marines for $1 as long as they would pay the taxes. Once they had missed their tax deadline, the Young [...]
Michael Doherty of Brooklyn, New York is a retired homicide detective who took a job as a custodian at the Lindenhurst Post Office. He was a first responder at the World Trade Center site after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Doherty began wearing a protective face mask when he scrubbed the asbestos floor [...]
The Poplar Bluff School District recently received a $23,000 stimulus grant from the Energize Missouri Communities grant program to help pay for renovations at the junior high school. The grant, which is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will go toward the replacement of lights and the installation of occupancy sensors to improve [...]
Countless older school buildings in the US contain asbestos materials such as floor and ceiling tiles. View full post on Mesothelioma.com News Related Blogs Related posts: Asbestos Alert: Oregon man opposed to demolishing historic but asbestos-riddled building Millions of structures nationwide, especially those built prior to 1980… Asbestos Alert: Cooke County, TX building requires asbestos [...]
John McTaggart, a former councilman in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, and a well respected public figure, died of mesothelioma last month after narrowly losing a municipal election. Having been previously diagnosed with the cancer, McTaggart amazingly recovered and went on to lead a life of relative health for some years. He had a history of [...]
Asbestos abatement work scheduled to begin this week at Nicolet High School in Glendale, Wisconsin has been postponed until students are released on summer recess. Parents were expressing concern that construction involving the removal of asbestos could cause a potential threat of exposure which could later lead to students developing mesothelioma and other asbestos related [...]