Clapper, Patti, Schweizer and Mason

A recent fire in St. Budeaux illustrates a little-known danger that fire fighters and other rescue personnel face every day.  In addition to dealing with the “mundane” dangers such as collapsing structures, poisonous smoke, and fire, fire fighters and other first responders also have to deal with asbestos and other hazardous materials.
In the St. Budeaux [...]

The operators of a U-Haul storage facility in San Francisco have been charged with illegally terminating one of their employees after he made known a potentially deadly asbestos threat.  Asbestos is a known carcinogen and even small amounts of the material can cause deadly mesothelioma, various forms of lung cancer, and other diseases such as [...]

A commercial cleaning company made a costly mistake of using a high pressure washer to clean the roof of an empty home – a roof that contained the deadly substance asbestos.  Adjacent homes and properties next to the empty house located in Moffat Beach, a suburb of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, were sprayed [...]

Many schools were built before 1980, when it was common practice in the construction industry to use asbestos containing materials (ACMs).  Over time, these older structures often need repair, renovation or demolition either due to natural wear and tear or due to weather damage.  That’s when the in-place asbestos can become a health hazard, causing [...]

Ever since rescue workers and construction personnel working in the footprint of the World Trade Center began to complain about mysterious and seemingly unexplainable illnesses, the media and other outlets have been quick to make a connection.  It is true that the debris at Ground Zero was loaded with harmful chemicals and materials including asbestos [...]

Arson is an unlikely friend but to 126 residents of an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado it may have just saved their lives.  The fire, which destroyed or damaged much of one building in the complex on September 24, led investigators to discover a previously undocumented asbestos threat.  The materials were deemed dangerous enough to [...]

Yet another New York Asbestos abatement contractor has been caught in violation of the Clean Air Act.  Keith Gordon-Smith stood accused of lying to OSHA, violating the federal Clean Air Act, and directly endangering the lives and well-being of his employees by forcing them to handle materials known to be contaminated with asbestos without proper [...]

Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that was once widely used in many construction and industrial materials that is now known to cause serious illnesses, such as mesothelioma, asbestosis and lung cancer.  In the 1980’s, the use of asbestos containing materials (ACMs) became severely restricted by governmental and environmental agencies.  However, after centuries of use, [...]

A new process, ABCOV, has been found to eliminate the dangers of asbestos, providing a way to remove and dispose of asbestos that is safe for both people and the environment.   ABCOV is a patented (US Patent 5,041,277), simple, non-thermal process approved by the U.S.  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that has very recently become available [...]

The Coweta County Administrator in Georgia, Theron Gay, said earlier this month that the asbestos found in and around several abandoned buildings near the Highway 34 overpass located on the Ishman Ballard Road will cost roughly $13,000 to clean up and make the area safe for the public once more.  This announcement came after the [...]