Archive for November, 2007
Minnesota mining companies face federal fines under new asbestos regulation
Date: admin | 29 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Cancer, asbestos, mesothelioma, uncategorized
Northern Minnesota mining companies are facing penalties and dust control mandates under the recently updated federal regulation that strictly limits asbestos contamination in workplace air.
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration had issued a new regulation on Feb 29, which gives miners the same protection that all other workers have had since 1994. The new [...]
Firemen in Asbestos Concern
Date: admin | 27 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Cancer, asbestos, mesothelioma, uncategorized
NEWTON – City and state investigators are trying to determine whether firefighters at Fire Station 3 were exposed to deadly asbestos fibers.
City had hired FLI Environmental Inc. to test for asbestos. Their tests for asbestos came back negative. However, city is still waiting for the results of an asbestos test conducted by the Occupational Safety [...]
Homer School District to cleanup asbestos
Date: admin | 25 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Cancer, asbestos, mesothelioma, uncategorized
HOMER GLEN – Homer School District will remove asbestos from Schilling Elementary School this summer. The estimated cost for the project is $200,000.
Much of the cancer-causing substance is in the south end of the school.
Asbestos has been used in the 51-year-old school building in the tiles under carpeting and the sealed piping in the concrete [...]
Asbestos Removal Approved for Donovan Building
Date: admin | 23 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Cancer, asbestos, mesothelioma, uncategorized
The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation board Friday approved a contract unanimously for the asbestos removal from the vacant Donovan State Office Building on Main Street in downtown Buffalo. The contract for the job was given to New York-based LVI Environmental.
LVI, which lists itself as the nation’s largest environmental services firm, came in second in [...]
Senior Citizens’ Possessions Covered with Asbestos
Date: admin | 21 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Cancer, asbestos, mesothelioma, uncategorized
Approximately 200 residents of the Bellerive senior housing complex in southwest Houston were emptied when the building was filled with smoke and flames.
Now four months has gone, but many are still waiting to get their belongings. Their landlord, the Houston Housing Authority told their belongings might be covered with deadly asbestos.
Many residents are afraid if [...]
