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Wright State University in Ohio will open its new disaster response training facility, Calamityville, this fall. The site will offer hands on, realistic training exercises to students, military personnel and civilians. Disasters will be staged with help from volunteers. Students are invited to lend artistic and acting skills to dress the sets and serve as [...]
The 50th anniversary of the Mark Twain Shrine in Florida, Missouri was celebrated at the end of April, and construction workers put in seven day weeks to get renovations done in time. The building houses the log cabin home where writer Samuel Clemens, otherwise known by pen name Mark Twain, was born and raised, original [...]
In the latter part of the 1920’s saw their first asbestos lawsuits settlement case. Asbestos exposure became the leader in lung cancer cases in workers who had high exposure rates. Medical researchers were validating assumptions made by doctors and other professionals who were connecting cancer cases to asbestos exposure. Although asbestos was used as a [...]
Asbestos exposure may lead to the development of a fatal cancer known as mesothelioma. View full post on Mesothelioma.com News Related Blogs Related posts: Mesothelioma asbestos to finally be removed from Summerlin Road After months of delay, asbestos will be abated from a… Asbestos testing required at former arsenal building site Asbestos materials are often [...]
Asbestos exposure may lead to the development of a fatal cancer known as mesothelioma. View full post on Mesothelioma.com News Related Blogs Related posts: Mesothelioma asbestos to finally be removed from Summerlin Road After months of delay, asbestos will be abated from a… Asbestos testing required at former arsenal building site Asbestos materials are often [...]
A Newport News, VA jury decided last month that two asbestos product suppliers, John Crane, Inc. and Garlock Sealing Technologies, were responsible for the illness and death of Robert Hardick. Robert served in the United States Navy between the 1950’s and the 1970’s, working both on seagoing ships and onshore in shipyard facilities. He was [...]
Northern Lights Center LLC owner Matt Bobich has been order to pay $70,000 in penalties for failure to follow safety precautions and ignoring a stop work order from Alaska Occupation Safety and Health Department. After a complaint was received in April 2009 from a worker on the site, an investigator was sent to the warehouse [...]
Malcom McLaren, who is arguably be the real founder of the punk movement, died of cancer in April at the age of 64. His battle with mesothelioma was not publicized, and he died quietly in a clinic in Switzerland attended by his sons, Joe Corre and Ben Westwood. McLaren was a colorful and controversial figure [...]
A great write-up from AP reporter Matthew Brown chronicles in heartbreaking detail what residents of the town — now the most dangerous superfund site in the history of the U.S. — have dealt with over the years. View full post on Asbestos.net News & Information Related Blogs Related posts: EPA Determines Remedies for Two Libby, [...]
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 [...]