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• Asbestos removal a concern at the University of Rhode Island

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  The University of Rhode Island had to move Facility Services out of the Sherman building during the last week of October in order to remove the second floor carpet and asbestos-laden floor tiles. The Director of University Facilities Services stated that at least half of the university’s buildings were built with ...
  6 days ago

• Asbestos exposure in USA shipyards - Lurking danger, long term effects

  
  Press Release Distribution - NewsWire- Caymanmama.com — Authority: 534
  Dallas, Texas (CaymanMama.com) — Some of the most noble workers in America were also some of the most unlucky as their occupation was not only the backbone of the U.S. Naval forces, it was also the riskiest. American shipyard workers who served the country between World War II and the Korean war had an ...
  1 week ago

• California man indicted for issuing fraudulent asbestos certifications

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco, California has charged Rogelio Lowe of E&D Environmental Safety Training, Inc. with scheming to defraud employers by issuing certificates to asbestos removal workers without providing them with the proper training and charging their employers for the full cost of ...
  1 week ago

• University of Wyoming cited for asbestos violations

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has cited the University of Wyoming for scattering asbestos-containing materials during a demolition project at the Bureau of Mines building. Violations include failing to conduct an asbestos inspection, failing to provide notification to the proper authorities, ...
  1 week ago

• State investigating improper removal of asbestos-covered boiler in Auburn, New York

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  Firefighters were called to a building in Auburn, New York on September 28 after carbon monoxide detectors indicated high levels of carbon monoxide. Workers in the apartment and commercial building had been dismantling an old asbestos-covered boiler using a gasoline-powered demolition saw. The fumes from the gasoline ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oregon pipe excavation project results in asbestos penalty

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  Black Butte Ranch Corporation has been fined $750 by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for a friable asbestos abatement project. Neither Black Butte Ranch nor its employees are licensed to conduct asbestos abatement activities, but they removed nearly 26 linear feet of sewer pipe that contained ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mesothelioma fears lead to OSHA fines for Superior General Contracting

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  Superior General Contracting of Cheektowaga, New York has been cited for 10 alleged serious workplace health violations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The contractor is looking at $50,000 in fines related to a remodeling job site where workers were exposed to asbestos-containing pipe ...
  2 weeks ago

• Asbestos removal will cost more than new floor tiles for Massachusetts school

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  The School Facilities Committee in Chicopee, Massachusetts voted unanimously to spend $69,000 to correct an error in Comprehensive High School’s new science labs and to replace the old cafeteria floor in the Edward J. Bellamy Middle School. A majority of the money, to the tune of about $41,000, is being spent on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oregon property owner fined for asbestos violations

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  Bob Wayne Jonas of Dayton has been fined $7,200 by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for accumulating asbestos-containing materials on his property following demolition of a building there. The building was demolished in 2006, but DEQ inspectors discovered asbestos at the site this past March on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Asbestos in Homes

  
  Mesothelioma Cancer BLOG - Cappolino, Dodd & Krebs, LLP — Authority: 100
  Asbestos is made up of needle-like fibers that are easily inhaled when disturbed.  The inhalation of these asbestos fibers can lead to serious diseases such as mesothelioma cancer, lung cancer, asbestosis, and pleural fibrosis. Asbestos is an organically occurring fibrous mineral.  It can be found in many places ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mesothelioma victim’s dying wish was to have his song played before game

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  Patrick Reynolds of the United Kingdom was diagnosed with mesothelioma , a rare form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure , when he was in his early 40s. When he died at the age of 44 in 1994, his son was 16 years old and his daughter was 12 years old. His dying wish was that his song, recorded with his band ...
  3 weeks ago

• Removing a Popcorn Ceiling

  
  Handy Man Fix Home Repair — Authority: 478
  A lot of people can look up at their ceilings right now, and what they are going to see up there is a textured ceiling that is not unlike popcorn in shape. A lot of people that have a popcorn ceiling actually wish that they did not. This was once a popular treatment for ceilings back in the 1960s and the 1970s but it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Asbestos testing continues at W.R. Grace Zonolite factory

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to do asbestos testing around the site of the former W.R. Grace Zonolite factory in Spokane, Washington. Asbestos fibers were found in the yards of nearby residences during soil testing in June , and the EPA wants to know if the asbestos could become airborne ...
  3 weeks ago

• Idaho contractor fined by EPA over asbestos violations

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  Precision Demolition and Abatement of Boise, Idaho has been fined by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for violating the federal Clean Air Act. During an EPA inspection of the contractor’s renovation project in October 2008, officials discovered that Precision had failed to inform the EPA of when the ...
  3 weeks ago

• California refinery fire debris may contain asbestos

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  A fire broke out at the coker unit at the Tesoro Corp. refinery near Los Angeles, California on September 25. The coker unit used extreme pressure and heat to convert heavy oil into lighter petroleum products like gasoline and heating oil. Debris from the fire may be contaminated with the toxic substance asbestos . ...
  3 weeks ago

• Asbestosis patient in hospice care gets to go fishing

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  John Lusk of Salem, South Carolina was diagnosed with asbestosis in the late 1990s. Asbestosis is a disease caused by inhaling asbestos fibers. The asbestos fibers scar the lung tissue. Lusk became very ill three years ago, and he needs constant oxygen in order to breathe. He has been with Medi Home Hospice care for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Able Contractors fined $30k for asbestos violations

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  Able Contractors Inc. of Brush Prairie has been fined $30,409 by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for alleged asbestos-handling violations. The DEQ alleges that Able Contractors did not properly document an asbestos abatement project at a retirement home in Newberg, and they removed ...
  4 weeks ago

• Chinese and US pharmaceutical companies join hands in mesothelioma lung cancer drug manufacturing

  
  Press Release Distribution - NewsWire- Caymanmama.com — Authority: 534
  Dallas, TX: Mesothelioma cure has been the main concern of the health care professionals. In this quest OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc, and Simcere Pharmaceutical, a drug manufacturing company in China, have joined hands. The joint venture of both the companies will result in the developing, manufacturing and marketing of a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reader beware-Salem Public Library toxic

  
  JusticeNewsFlash.com | Legal News | Lawyer Press Release — Authority: 440
  Salem Public Library will restart the demolition and removal of asbestos containing materials from the reading hall. Oregon asbestos abatement injury news-Salem Public Library needs lighting changes to avoid asbestos fibers exposure. Salem, OR–Salem City Council agreed to reallocate $165,000 to the Salem Public ...
  4 weeks ago

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