Asbestos Leak During Construction May Have Affected Students Everyone thought everything was fine at the Lafayette Academy in New Orleans when students there left for the summer vacation a few months ago. But officials at the charter school have announced that a contractor working at the school in 2017 likely contaminated much of the building … Read more
Asbestos Release Sends Cal Poly Faculty Scrambling Members of the faculty at California Polytechnic State University had to quickly evacuate Tuesday when a construction activity in the administration building caused the sudden release of asbestos fibers, reports the local newspaper, The Tribune. According to an email by the Facilities Management and Development department, the accidental … Read more
Asbestos Clean-Up Continues in Manhattan It’s been nearly a week since a steam pipe exploded at Fifth Avenue and 21st Street in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, but the sight of police officers wearing protective masks is still a common one and will likely be for at least a few more days, officials say. According to a … Read more
Bethlehem Steel Workers Gather About Asbestos Woes Work at a steel mill certainly includes plenty of dangers. Though the work environment in existing mills has improved over the decades and workplace safety rules written back in the 1980s made the job a little less hazardous, there is/was still a sizeable risk of getting hurt or … Read more
Burst Pipe Spreads Asbestos Fears in NYC Just as the morning rush hour was getting underway, a nearly century-old pipe in NYC’s bustling Flatiron District exploded, sending steam through the streets and – worse yet – spreading fibers from old asbestos pipe insulation throughout the area. The blast happened where busy Fifth Avenue crosses 21st … Read more
Did Toxic Pipe Insulation Sicken Celanese Employee? Each year, some 3,000 Americans are stricken with mesothelioma. Most are over the age of 60; some quite a bit older. In addition, most are men that worked prior to 1980 in industries where the products they manufactured contained high levels of asbestos. Others came in contact with … Read more
Asbestos Study Will Be Conducted at Former Beech Nut Plant Officials in Montgomery County, New York have hired a Long Island firm to conduct a survey of the remaining asbestos at the former site of the century-old Beech Nut baby food plant, which is located in the town of Canajoharie. The engineering firm will study … Read more
Curious Tourists Visiting Dangerous Asbestos Site Wittenoom, Australia has been wiped off the map…literally. Australian cartographers don’t even place the Western Australian town on modern maps anymore as it’s no longer a municipality, and it doesn’t show up on some GPS maps either. That’s because the town was long ago obliterated by decades of blue … Read more
Russian Company Puts Trump’s Face on Asbestos Product Uralasbest, a Russian asbestos company that operates a mine in the Ural Mountains, has placed Donald Trump’s image on pallets of asbestos, accompanied by the words, “Approved by Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States.” It’s certainly an image that has prompted plenty of chuckles but, … Read more
Jury Orders J&J to Pay $550 Million in Asbestos Case A Missouri jury has found in favor of 22 women who alleged that the talc-based products manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, including its iconic Baby Powder, contain asbestos and caused their ovarian cancer. In response to the verdict, the company has been ordered to pay … Read more