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Firefighters in Lackawanna, New York, are concerned after tests confirmed that asbestos fibers are present in the firehouse where they work. The firemen were evacuated Saturday from Fire House 3 at 2990 South Park Ave. after two samples tested positive for asbestos. Large amounts of dust in the air was first noticed by the firefighters, [...]
The use of asbestos in the United States has been reduced dramatically in the last 30 years, but the residual effect of its past proliferation will be with the country for many, many more years. And that’s not good. Inhalation of asbestos fibers is what causes mesothelioma, the cancer with the latency period of up to 50 years. [...]
Five years after approving an experimental asbestos demolition project in Fort Worth, Texas, the Environmental Protection Agency has admitted that construction workers may not have been adequately protected from asbestos during the procedure. In 2007, workers began demolition on one of the buildings in Fort Worth’s Oak Hollow apartment complex. During the project, workers stood [...]
Mesothelioma and asbestos are so much linked that many people call it by the name of mesothelioma asbestos. While mesothelioma is a serious cancer, asbestos is its main cause. While one may approve of things that remain of use for a long time, their effect on the surroundings decides the worthiness of that product in [...]
Asbestos exposure is the primary cause of mesothelioma cancer. Inhaled or ingested asbestos fibers may cause an inflammation of internal tissue and disrupt organ function which leads to the development of mesothelioma. Asbestos products were used extensively throughout the 20th century in a wide variety of applications. Asbestos companies continued to produce these products even after they [...]
Lawsuits regarding negligent exposure to asbestos and the harms that it causes are becoming more commonplace, even in cases where the opposition is a big and powerful company. The circumstances around the rise of asbestos litigation are peculiar, to say the least. The medical community has been passively aware of the dangers of asbestos for [...]
Staff and patients of the Criminal Justice Service program at the Wyoming State Hospital at Evanston were evacuated from the Karn building in March due to fears of asbestos contamination caused by a renovation project. Insulation found by workers around some piping led to an investigation. Asbestos was found in ceiling tiles, but airborne contamination [...]
Daniel Carey, 26, was fined nearly $4,400 for illegally burning waste from a demolished building without taking proper precautions for dealing with asbestos. The Lafayette County Circuit Court cited Carey following an investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Asbestos is a hazardous substance that must be disposed of in an approved manner to [...]
This 2007 article from popular watchdog journalism site Mother Jones chronicles the town of El Dorado Hills, Calif. – a wealthy, conservative bedroom community in the Central Valley foothills outside Sacramento. View full post on Asbestos.net News & Information Related posts: Asbestos Alert: Demo project stopped following asbestos discovery The Environmental Protection Agency has, for [...]
At an expense of over 1 million to the taxpayer, asbestos that has been found in 38 different fire stations in South Wales, UK has been removed. A station in the country’s capital was found to need urgent attention along with stations in 7 other towns. The cost of the removal was revealed after a [...]