tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post5953646445475268995..comments2023-03-29T07:35:09.085-04:00Comments on Distant Voices, Vibrating Electrons: WTC advertisingN__Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18303668729094014730noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-68232907639047920082010-08-17T12:11:05.756-04:002010-08-17T12:11:05.756-04:00Irony: Working at the American College of Surgeons...Irony: Working at the American College of Surgeons, the contractor is removing spray-applied fireproofing from the exterior walls and members. The place was heated by induction units on those exterior walls, about 2 inches away from the highly friable fireproofing. They sucked loose fibers from the walls and entrained them in the air.<br /><br />I had a helluva time clearing those containments after abatement because the non-abated areas were kicking up so many fibers that the make-up air in containment raised the final counts.<br /><br />That was 22 years ago. I wonder how many of the folks there ended up with Meso or lung cancer.Willyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01710859973261156233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-50585705189173216782010-08-17T12:07:17.588-04:002010-08-17T12:07:17.588-04:00I saw the he-men with plastic bags and no masks. G...I saw the he-men with plastic bags and no masks. Given that my insurance company doesn't allow me to even discuss asbestos, there wasn't a lot I could do officially. Once in a while I'd suggest, one-on-one, that the safety rules exist for a reason.N__Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18303668729094014730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-90119330968919559012010-08-17T12:02:43.363-04:002010-08-17T12:02:43.363-04:00Just one more thing you've probably seen but f...Just one more thing you've probably seen but failed to notice:<br /><br />All those commercials for legal services for people affected by mesothelioma. Seems to me there's a been a big increase in recent years in those ads on my tee vee. Why so?<br /><br />Well, the big asbestos abatement years were the 1980s and 1990s. Lots of workers removing stos. A nonzero number of them thought respiratory protection was for pussies. Some times I'd go into containment and find a group of men shoveling stos into bags, their respirators off and sitting in the corner. (In Chicago, the Polish immigrants were notorious for this.)<br /><br />Asbestos exposure isn't like cyanide, it doesn't kill immediately. Latency period is 20-30 years. So all those cases of exposure will now be maturing into cases of asbestos-related illness. COPD is something you can blame on things other than asbestos, but Meso is strictly an asbestos-triggered illness. For someone with Meso all they have to do is have some form of documented exposure and it's ka-ching for the lawyers...with 50% going to the patient.<br /><br />Get the picture now? A whole crop of potential personal injury lawsuits with an indisputable origin now coming on line.Willyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01710859973261156233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-10752593162703703442010-08-16T22:23:39.958-04:002010-08-16T22:23:39.958-04:00Willy -
I'm a big fan of professionalism in ...Willy - <br /><br />I'm a big fan of professionalism in any field. Let me know if I say anything particularly stupid.N__Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18303668729094014730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-44291380368667684682010-08-16T11:00:44.844-04:002010-08-16T11:00:44.844-04:00Good lord. I thought the use of asbestos had been ...Good lord. I thought the use of asbestos had been phased out/banned by the late 70s. Guess I was wrong.TruculentandUnreliablenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-73528992036449323082010-08-16T08:04:38.922-04:002010-08-16T08:04:38.922-04:00Just googlize 'asbestos ads' and look at t...Just googlize 'asbestos ads' and look at the images.<br /><br />Kent cigarettes had crocidolite filters. Most of the old spray-on fireproofing was amosite (named for the kinda acronym of their source, Asbestos Mines Of South Africa.)<br /><br />The above minerals are part of a subgroup of asbestos minerals called amphibole. The other subgroup is serpentine, consisting of chrysotile, which is a more flexible form of asbestos (and ends up woven into heat-resistant gloves and suits.) Serps make up something like 90% of all the asbestos in building materials.<br /><br />Crocidolite was fairly rare in my experience, finding it only once in 15 years of inspecting. It was in the boiler insulation of a John Deere HQ (incidentally, it was designed by Mies Van der Rohe.) The blue 'stos was damn pretty, a light blue like the ionized blue of Cerenkov radiation. Amosite was used as snow for 20s-30s movies. It fell like real snow but didn't melt. The dust was just swept/blow around.<br /><br />Like Subby's link shows, there's a whole spin industry trying to keep the serpentine mines open. There are claims that serps are a lesser health hazard (lesser how? Like shot with a .22 instead of a .45?) than the amphiboles.<br /><br />Sorry for the long post but you're actually venturing into an area I know too damn much about.Willyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01710859973261156233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-71987030304083410182010-08-15T19:42:14.274-04:002010-08-15T19:42:14.274-04:00It's THE MIRACLE FIBER!It's THE MIRACLE FIBER!N__Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18303668729094014730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-81925211062164180342010-08-15T15:56:10.578-04:002010-08-15T15:56:10.578-04:00You can blame Canadians in large measure for asbes...You can blame Canadians in large measure for asbestos proliferation. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/07/22/bbc-investigates-asbestos.html" title="" rel="nofollow">The federal government supports asbestos to keep Quebec (or some portion of the Quebec elite) happy.</a>Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.com