Conversely, there are few risk factors other than asbestos exposure for mesothelioma. |
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In Jameson, an employee contracted mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos at work. |
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This is thermally bonded, inorganic wadding developed to replace asbestos on railway carriages. |
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And as yet there is no cure for mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung lining caused by asbestos. |
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A demolitions expert has spoken out to quash concerns over dust coming from a Colchester building site, which contains asbestos. |
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His solicitors said he was in good health until diagnosed in December 2002 with mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure. |
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It was only seven months earlier that the asbestos cancer, mesothelioma, had been diagnosed. |
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Exposure to asbestos is usually occupational, and includes shipyard workers, pipefitters, miners, and installers of brake linings and insulation. |
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Commonly, ceiling and floor tiles, pipe insulation, vehicle brake linings, cement, and mortar contain asbestos. |
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At the time, asbestos victims and unions warned it was a dodge to try and avoid escalating liabilities. |
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Residents in a Swindon tower block fear the council could be exposing them to deadly asbestos particles. |
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Geraldton City Council has discovered asbestos behind its Civic Centre and has begun excavating the area to remove the dangerous material. |
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When acoustic texture material is wet, asbestos fibers are withheld from release into the air. |
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His widow Rita called for more to be done across Bradford to warn former millworkers of the possible effects of asbestos. |
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The term asbestos is used for several hydrated silicate minerals that occur in fibrous forms. |
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It can then legally use the grants to weatherproof the building, remove asbestos and build roads and sewers from next spring. |
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There is an inherent uncertainty in any actuarial estimates of asbestos liabilities. |
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In his necropsy of a Bantu man in 1956 he found asbestos bodies in the lungs and insisted that this was a mesothelioma. |
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Homes built from 1920 to 1960 might contain asbestos in floor tiles, siding, or pipe insulation. |
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The blue asbestos was completely exposed and unsealed when the coaches arrived in the interior department. |
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Between 1978 and 1984 he came into contact with asbestos while working on diesel multiple units at BRB Ltd. |
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He was regularly exposed to asbestos in the course of his employments as a boilermaker. |
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A solicitor believes a ruling that saw a former boilermaker whose wife died from asbestos exposure stripped of his damages could affect others. |
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There were heavy exposures to asbestos dust whilst I worked in the boiler room and engine rooms. |
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Lung burdens of asbestos in these cases are intermediate between asbestosis and pleural plaques. |
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By last week, the company needed the asbestos issue like a hole in the head. |
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Officials say undisturbed asbestos in a good condition can be safely managed and contained, and need not be removed. |
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Actions related to asbestos exposure, for example, have the potential to make such risks uninsurable in the future. |
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Fibro is perfectly safe if it's in good condition, with the asbestos fibres bonded firmly in the cement. |
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Jill Fogg, for the agency, told them that when it investigated, an officer found cement, bonded asbestos and a bag containing hydrated lime. |
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These include clay minerals such as kaolinite and talc, micas, montmorillonites, and the remainder of the asbestos minerals including chrysotile. |
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The new rules will consolidate existing legislation and introduce new controls on the way asbestos is handled in the workplace. |
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After the blaze millions of litres of contaminated water, including white spirit, turpentine, creosote and asbestos, poured into the drain. |
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The floor is covered with thick black linoleum and the walls are acoustically treated with an asbestos compound. |
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Sections 28 through 43 consolidate the rules regarding asbestos, silica and coal dust. |
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Because of the presence of asbestos, fire fighters had largely kept off the factory site, and surrounded the fire instead using water jets. |
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We look forward to your co-operation in putting these procedures into operation quickly to enable an early recommencement of asbestos clearance. |
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Two days later officers looked more closely at the mound and found cement-bonded asbestos, plastic, metal, carpet, wallpaper, pipework and glass. |
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Asbestos bodies are asbestos fibers that have been coated with an iron-rich, proteinaceous concretion. |
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Cigarette smoke appears to potentiate the effects of asbestos, at least in part by enhancing the binding of fibers to epithelial surfaces. |
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Ms Waterman says asbestos entered their flat through a hole which builders knocked in their wall. |
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Asbestosis is the interstitial pneumonitis and fibrosis caused by inhalation of asbestos fibers. |
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Mr Sharp worked on steam ships HMS Juno and HMS Phoebe during his military service. Pipes in both warships were lagged with asbestos material. |
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And why is there no mention of the historical significance of asbestos insulation used to lag the steam boilers? |
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There are now coatings that can enhance the encapsulation of asbestos to walls and ceilings, and these are highly effective in sealing it in. |
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It was a common practice at many industrial factories to lag pipes with asbestos, Mr Conyers-Kelly points out. |
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My job involved preparing the scaffolding and boards that laggers used when replacing old asbestos. |
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In January 1998 the asbestos lagging to pipework was in an unsatisfactory condition. |
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I generally knocked off the asbestos lagging myself rather than wait for laggers and scalers to get there. |
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It was used as insulation on the pipe lagging which ran throughout the factory and there was also asbestos in the roof. |
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The engine appears mostly intact, but all the wood is rotten and asbestos lagging is still on the boiler. |
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As far as I know asbestos was in the pipe lagging and in the boiler house and all that was stripped out. |
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The cleanup of the asbestos will involve sealing and encapsulating the roof. |
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An inquest in Southampton heard that the former ship's fitter died of a lung disease caused as a direct result of contact with asbestos. |
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The poor bloke at the head of the asbestos sheeting line I worked on emptied bags of asbestos into the hopper by hand, with no mask on. |
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As the debris and ash began piling up at my feet, my lungs suddenly filled with asbestos and ground glass. |
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Groups in Scotland that have long campaigned to address the asbestos legacy have welcomed the legislation. |
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The so-called third wave were the consumers, the home renovators, for example, who innocently put up or pulled down asbestos fibro. |
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This new legislation has cleared up the grey area of who is responsible for identifying and managing asbestos in the work place. |
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He died earlier this year after contracting the killer industrial disease mesothelioma, which is caused by exposure to asbestos dust. |
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He worked for 37 years at York Carriageworks and died of an illness related to asbestos, after enduring a long and painful collapse. |
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The asbestos industry in the town of Asbestos also included a large mill for fiber processing and a factory for fabricating asbestos products. |
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He was exposed to asbestos dust when working as a joiner in the 1970s on the construction of council housing. |
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Therefore, precautions should always be taken if the presence of asbestos is suspected. |
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Enraged homeowners are calling for action against developers, who chopped down dozens of trees near a former asbestos factory. |
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Apparently it's riddled with asbestos and so dilapidated that prospective buyers are warned not to venture inside. |
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The workers are asking for compensation for mental stress arising from a possible risk of exposure to asbestos at the plant. |
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The cause of its chatoyance can be embedded fibers of asbestos, as well as actinolite fibers. |
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On September 22, I participated in a conference in Brussels highlighting the issue of asbestos. |
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The point is, exposure to asbestos, dust and fibre on its own can cause lung cancer. |
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Most of the raw asbestos goes into the manufacture of brake linings in Melbourne. |
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Some filters can remove even small organisms like cysts and bacteria and small particles like asbestos fibers. |
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There was asbestos in the ceilings of the basement, which now may be friable. |
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The focus of the ad was to inform the public that chrysotile asbestos does not cause cancer. |
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The asbestos would be mixed with a soapy material and be subjected to a high temperature. |
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I have now heard that there is asbestos in this building so it would cost a lot of money to sort the problem out. |
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Firefighters learned there was asbestos in wall panels in the blazing block shortly after arriving. |
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Several powders or dry colours use a base of asbestos, chalk powder or silica. |
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Several Asian countries still use brown asbestos, and almost all of them still use white asbestos. |
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The inhalation of amphibole asbestos is now widely recognized as being highly dangerous to human health. |
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Up until the late 1980s, carcinogenic asbestos was used in building houses. |
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When these buildings begin to deteriorate, asbestos fibres may be released. |
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Like many projects of this type, we had to deal with removal of asbestos and lead paint. |
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But his lungs lost the battle for health years ago when he worked with blue asbestos fibres, insulating for the telephone company. |
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For many years asbestos was considered a safe material ideal for fire prevention and insulation. |
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Asbestos becomes a health hazard if it releases asbestos fibres into the air. |
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The notice prevented further work in the affected part of the hangar until asbestos debris or loose asbestos had been removed. |
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The fibreboard walls contain 40 percent blue asbestos, and he has drilled into them, exposing the deadly fibres. |
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We eventually had to make special asbestos cloth covers for the footwell to stop the fried foot problem. |
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The council is also pressing for safeguards to ensure no toxic materials such as asbestos are processed on the site. |
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However, the outside walls were never plastered and asbestos was the material used for the roof. |
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She remembered how there were pipes in a basement ward lagged with what appeared to be asbestos insulation. |
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These qualities have made asbestos popular to be used in insulation, acoustical tiles, floor tiles, and automotive brake assemblies. |
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He added the main mill building and outbuildings would be demolished because they were fragile and there were traces of asbestos. |
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He said his father had talked openly to the family about the asbestos dust he encountered at the factory. |
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He had joined the Railway Works as an office boy, and his duties involved walking through workshops where asbestos was used. |
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Several powders use a base of asbestos, talc, chalk or silica, all of which are health hazards. |
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In the late 1980's and early 90's, homebuyers routinely cancelled escrows at the mere mention of asbestos or radon gas. |
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He started as an office boy at Swindon but he used to walk through the workshops where asbestos was being used. |
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And even then they were only aimed at limiting occupational exposure within the asbestos industry. |
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He died of malignant mesothelioma of the right lung caused by exposure to asbestos. |
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This is still my personal web site and is not going to mutate into a vertical blog about tech, design, politics, pop culture, or even asbestos. |
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When asbestos fibers enter the lung, they cause the tissue to harden and scar around them. |
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The case centred around pleural plaques, a benign condition which causes scarring to the lung lining and which is caused by exposure to asbestos. |
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The asbestos has to then be put into large, approved bags before being taken away to a landfill tip to be buried underground by the contractors. |
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A government compensation scheme is available for asbestos victims who cannot trace their previous employer. |
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Another asbestos mineral, crocidolite, is used for more specialized applications, when, for example, better acid resistance is desirable. |
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Even if it had been told that Soviet Railways ballasted thousands of miles of track with asbestos waste it would not have cared. |
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He was all ready to shaft the asbestos victims as he had the workers and other accident victims. |
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As part of his job fitting engines in ships he used to have to mix asbestos in big vats. |
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The officer saw an open-backed truck at the site containing a large amount of asbestos cement roofing material. |
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His widow called for more to be done to warn former millworkers of the possible effects of asbestos. |
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Hazardous waste includes contaminated soil, paint, solvent residues, asbestos and highly acidic and alkaline solids. |
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They stopped using asbestos in car brake linings because auto manufacturers realised that there would be claims made against them. |
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As many former employees have found to their cost, inhaling asbestos dust can have very serious consequences. |
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No asbestos bodies or uncoated asbestos fibers were found in any other water or fixative samples. |
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At least 3500 people in Great Britain die each year from mesothelioma and asbestos related lung cancer as a result of past exposure to asbestos. |
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Therefore, the existence of childhood mesothelioma may be one reason why researchers do not attribute all mesotheliomas to asbestos exposure. |
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By the age of 48 he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, nicknamed asbestos cancer, and died five years later at his home in Lanhill View. |
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Almost 40 soldiers braved a raging fire and potentially lethal asbestos fumes as they tackled a warehouse blaze in the early hours of yesterday morning. |
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Winick says the cause was not HIV-related, but a particular kind of cancer caused by asbestos. |
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It was sealed in 2009 for asbestos contamination and its current status remains unclear. |
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Lead paint, which existed mostly on the window frames and in acoustic tile, were carefully removed, and the asbestos is being either removed or encapsulated. |
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It pertains to the removal of sprayed asbestos coatings used for thermal and acoustic insulation in buildings and on boilers in industrial plants. |
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A health education program is needed that explains the dangers of asbestos exposure and warns about the use of asbestos-containing soils for whitewash. |
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Cellulose from wood pulp has replaced the asbestos, and it's a great product which is going gangbusters in the company's biggest market, the United States. |
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Yet Roger's death warrant was probably signed decades ago when he served on submarines in the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when asbestos was widely used to lag pipes. |
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Part of the claim related to the dissolution of his business and his claim that that was caused by his mental state following the diagnosis of asbestos related illness. |
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Most amphibole asbestos was mined as crocidolite and amosite from Precambrian banded ironstones in South Africa and, to a lesser extent, Western Australia. |
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One job was tipping bags of raw asbestos into a hopper for mixing. |
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Mining is focused on lignite, bauxite, asbestos, and marble. |
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The message of limited liability in relation to asbestos was conveyed to about 25 analysts, who attended a one-day presentation at Belgard Castle last week. |
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One of the varieties is the dangerous blue asbestos, crocidolite. |
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The asbestos fibres got stuck in the hand-knitted socks and jumpers. |
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The company had told the workers the building was free of asbestos. |
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Apparently talc and asbestos are similar, and apparently deposits of that kind of stone were indigenous to the northern part of the Appalachian range. |
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Under protocols to protect against asbestos contamination, fire personnel and equipment had to be hosed down, while their kit was bagged up and sent for specialist cleaning. |
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The South African asbestos trade responded to the post-war boom by initiating and extending underground workings, and by centralizing and mechanizing the refining process. |
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Montana got Medicare coverage for people living near an asbestos superfund site. |
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Therefore, omentum, mesentery, and lung tissues from 20 individuals in whom mesothelioma was diagnosed were analyzed for asbestos bodies and asbestos fibers. |
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Then, there's the fact that not every mesothelioma is caused by asbestos. |
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Now, of course, it is well known that it can cause asbestosis or mesothelioma, a malignant tumour of the lung lining caused by inhaling asbestos fibres. |
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Welding litigation may lack the sexiness of asbestos or tobacco, but the verdicts that he is aiming for could wreak financial havoc on the welding industry. |
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They reflected on recent decisions in regard to asbestos, lung disease, toxic shock syndrome, Agent Orange, lead, tobacco, and fen-phen, the slimming pill. |
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Not only were many thousands of miners and millers employed, but as late as 1980 some 6000 South African workers were employed in making asbestos products, mainly cements. |
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Neither does it have a complete inventory of toxic wastes, although the ship-breaker admits that the ship contains both asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls, a neurotoxin. |
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Other topics on the agenda are reducing slips, trips and falls and back injury, preventing at-work road accidents and managing asbestos in buildings. |
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It is possible that others knew this patient had worked with asbestos in the boiler room of ships and saw this as a possible cause of his illness. |
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The firm was one of the biggest specialist insurers of employers' liabilities, and as such underwrote the risks by which asbestos claims should be covered. |
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Some people have been exposed in hairdressers where massive hairdryers were often lined with it, others in garages as asbestos was a major component in brake linings. |
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I've been through some of the brake shoe manufacturing facilities in China and India and it's absolutely shocking, the level of asbestos exposure the workers have there. |
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The asbestos was discovered in an empty house next door to them. |
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Once it was confirmed that there was no further asbestos the site would be vested in the community, which could decide to use or dispose of it as they thought fit. |
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Dustin said he had found asbestos chunks up to 10 centimetres square. |
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It includes vast deposits of coal, limestone, slabs, oil and natural gas, manganese, asbestos, iron ore, gold, diamonds, graphite, tungsten, steatitic, feldspar, and silica. |
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For example, lead pigment manufacturers were knowledgeable about the hazards of lead, and suppressed the information, just as asbestos manufacturers did. |
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Ninety-five per cent of all asbestos used commercially is chrysotile. |
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Since silicates are not flammable and only melt at very high temperatures, asbestos fibers have been used to make flame-retardant fabrics and composite materials. |
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However, asbestos was applied for heat insulation in the factory. |
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Asbestos tape is interwove from asbestos warp and weft yarns, suitable for lagging for boilers and pipe lines, also used as thermal insulating materials. |
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However, it is clear that asbestos flock falls within that definition. |
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Mask an iron roof or corrugated asbestos roof with an evergreen climber. |
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For example, the use of safety equipment is mandated for employees working in buildings where friable asbestos is present prior to demolition or major remodeling. |
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Older units with asbestos roofs and low eaves are particularly unpopular. |
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He has fears about the risks of getting more serious asbestos disease. |
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As far back as 1975, they say, the local authority installed a short asbestos pipe near the back door as a link to carry the domestic water supply. |
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My feeling is that if this asbestos plant gets the go-ahead there will be a domino effect and all sorts of hazardous materials could end up being processed. |
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Over a period of weeks there, he was on hand as workers drilled through concrete believed to have been treated with asbestos while laying power lines. |
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They also drilled into the asbestos ceilings in the kitchen and bathroom. |
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The earlier court decision had called into question a demerged CSR's capacity to pay future asbestos claims. |
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How the mesothelial cell's ability to phagocytize asbestos is known to activate the Nlrp3 inflammasome. |
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Clinical evidence demonstrates that asbestos fibers less than or equal to 3 millimicrons long are phagocytized by alveolar macrophages. |
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Experts will be on hand to discuss boiler rooms, heat monitoring devices, asbestos issues, waterproofing questions, and a myriad of other issues. |
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A period of 12 weeks was required to remove asbestos in the towers' rubble. |
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The Order of Friars Minor claim Lothian Heating Services unleashed a cloud of asbestos and caused structural damage by knocking holes in a wall. |
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Thurman is tolerable, Firth stretches himself to play yet another stuffed shirt while Morgan irritates like an jockstrap made from asbestos. |
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The Renew is also free of polyvinyl chloride, asbestos, chlorofluorocarbons and halons. |
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Mr Mann described his job welding in a room while a colleague sprayed deadly blue asbestos on the walls. |
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Commonly white and brown asbestos in floor tiles, plastic toilet cisterns, artex coatings and blue asbestos in asbestos cement products. |
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With its asbestos roofing and unshielded machinery, the factory was a multihazard environment. |
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Steam locomotive boilers were insulated with asbestos and when an engine had covered a high mileage could give footplatemen a very rough ride. |
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It was here that he unloaded bags, including deadly blue asbestos, from railway carriages. |
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Robert Moeller, a pipefitter by trade, allegedly sustained asbestos exposure by working with asbestos-containing gaskets manufactured by Garlock. |
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Tobacco smoking and asbestos have a synergistic effect on the formation of lung cancer. |
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The amphibole asbestos has different physical and chemical properties from chrysotile, states a Natural Resources Canada report. |
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Previously, the courts had held asbestos removal costs to be capital expenditures. |
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In 1977, the Consumer Product Safety Commission once and for all outlawed the use of asbestos in spackle and joint compound. |
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Key questions still remain in understanding asbestos-induced health effects, particularly related to the MOAs of asbestos. |
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Crocidolite asbestos, also known as blue asbestos is found in various products. |
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All-cause mortality and cancer incidence among adults exposed to blue asbestos during childhood. |
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It also regulates the movement of hazardous wastes such as fibrous asbestos, infectious clinical wastes and harmful chemicals. |
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Many other substances are extracted including titanium, asbestos, silver, magnesium, nickel and many other metals and industrial minerals. |
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The study was biased toward routine custodial activities that had the potential to dislodge and resuspend asbestos fibers. |
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The grandad-of-15 became ill after being exposed to asbestos fibres throughout his working life as a lagger. |
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A retired steel erector died of an industrial disease due to exposure to asbestos, an inquest heard. |
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Government agencies also worked to control other carcinogenic substances such as asbestos and pesticides. |
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Bella Yonder, by email A IF IT was installed pre-1986, the Artex might contain a small amount of asbestos. |
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A biopsy series of mesotheliomata, and attempts to identify asbestos within some of the tumors. |
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Comparative long-term toxicity of Libby amphibole and amosite asbestos in rats after single or multiple intratracheal exposures. |
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The tremolite asbestos and other amphiboles in the Oak Ridge area do occur naturally in veins, safe within the earth. |
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Ordinary vacuum cleaners should never be used to clean up asbestos fibers, even if fitted with a HEPA filter. |
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Contaminants found at Superfund sites include arsenic, asbestos, barium, cadmium, carbon tetrachloride, lead, mercury and sulfuric acid. |
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Legal commentators predict that the litigation that will result from the year 2000 problem will dwarf that of asbestos and other mass torts. |
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And finally, Tremolite, Actinolite, and Anthophyllite asbestos are found occasionally in industrial or commercial products. |
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Curry called the DEP, and a state inspector and licensed asbestos abater returned to the site on Sept. |
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With this background and experience we feel justified in stating that not all talcs contain, or are associated with, asbestos. |
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Dry friction materials, such as non-asbestos organic, semimetallic low-metallic, and asbestos friction materials. |
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During World War Two and the Korean War asbestos also played a part and Agent Orange may have caused some problems during the Vietnam War. |
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Mining activity produces dust that may contain asbestos fibers when peridotites are serpentinized. |
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Cape Industries plc it was held that victims of asbestos poisoning at the hands of an American subsidiary could not sue the English parent in tort. |
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Recently reports surfaced by a scientist and Department of Natural Resources that asbestos fibers are in at least part of the ore body that Gogebic Taconite hopes to mine. |
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Mealey said the new report was developed in response the implementation of Rule 23 and its use in mass tort litigation such as asbestos, breast implants, fen-phen and tobacco. |
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All types of asbestos fibers, chrysotile included, have been shown in laboratory as well as clinical studies to be capable of causing malignant mesothelioma. |
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Frayn was born to a deaf asbestos salesman in Mill Hill, a suburb of London, grew up in Ewell, Surrey, and was educated at Kingston Grammar School. |
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Among them was the widow of blacksmith Frederick Reynolds, who died of the aggressive cancer mesothelioma in February, allegedly after being exposed to blue asbestos. |
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And plants in nurseries are today pegged as air cleansers to wage war with traces of lead paint, radon and asbestos that hover about in the built environment. |
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This was being undertaken by a qualified asbestos removalist team. |
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All types of asbestos are potentially carcinogenic when inhaled. |
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The alterations to the ventilation system are important, not only to heat exchange, but also the quality of the air at platform level, particularly given its asbestos content. |
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The asbestos in those old school buildings is a health hazard. |
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Assistant coroner Thomas Atherton recorded a medical cause of death of desmoplastic mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure and a conclusion of industrial disease. |
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The speculation is alveolar macrophages deposit them there as the macrophages transport asbestos fibers through the lymphatic system after phagocytizing them in the alveoli. |
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Wolfe has worked on important litigation matters pertaining to asbestos, breast implants, Bentlate, Halcion, Prozac, Phen-Fen, and tobacco and smoking. |
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Asbestos workers who smoke have a ninetyfold greater risk of developing lung cancer compared to worker s who have neither been exposed to asbestos nor smoked. |
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Developing up to 80,000 pounds of pulling power, the system is capable of bursting cast iron, concrete, asbestos cement, PVC, pitch fiber and clayware pipe. |
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As I wrote we have a field trip scheduled. We will take 72 of the second years to the coal mines, asbestos factory, steel mills in Enugu then up to Nnsuka. |
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A PIPEFITTER died after exposure to asbestos, an inquest has heard. |
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There is a single garage of block walls under an asbestos roof and period 'comforts' include the former earth closet to the east, now ripe for indoor replacement. |
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