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Asbestos cancer alert for 1970s boiler room mates... She told the Tribune that she now fears for the lives of her friends and worries they are “burying their heads in the sand” instead of getting the proper tests. There is no cure for Ms Marsh, a police community support officer (PCSO) who now lives in Brighton, said: “We used to hang out in the boiler room, me and my friends. “It was a real den for us where we would sit and smoke and drink a bit as kids do. It was nice and warm in the winter. “Of course, we just didn’t know at the time that the lagging was asbestos.”
She believes her illness may have been compounded by working in an Islington Council-run mechanics’ workshop, where she had to sand brake pads containing asbestos. She was never told it could harm her health. Following her diagnosis in 2003, Ms Marsh reached an out-of-court settlement with Islington Council. Her case was fought by solicitors Thompsons, which specialises in such claims.
Ms Marsh lives with her partner, Ann, 50, a beauty therapist, and is receiving chemotherapy treatment at Bart’s Hospital in Smithfield. She fears some of her friends may also be suffering f... Toxic legacy a concern... Ball said even with the increased overall cancer rate, it is not clear that the plants are at fault. For instance, researchers had no information about how many of the area's residents smoked cigarettes, which is another key risk factor for lung cancer. Another big gap in the data is that they don't include the people most likely to have suffered the worst exposure: the workers. Neither the EPA nor state health officials could find pay stubs or employee logs from the two plants that would have allowed them to track down people who worked there during 46 years of operation. Draper resident Ralph Blevins took a $1.95-an-hour job at the Utah Lumber plant for about6 six months 45 years ago. He has asbestosis, an incurable lung disease unique to asbestos exposure that hardens the lung and often makes breathing excruciating. He was happy to hear about the study and the proposed outreach program. "We've got to warn people about it," he said. The environment agencies want to hear from other former employees and people who may have taken waste dust from the plant to use for improving their garden soil. fahys@sltrib.com * Vermiculite processing took place in downtown Salt Lake City f... Miners look for answers on taconite exposure... — Taconite miners and retirees on the Iron Range met Thursday to talk about their hopes for two new studies to be conducted by the Minnesota Department of Health. The studies are designed to explain what's causing so many cases of But the rates have risen since then, and now the Department plans further study. Dave Trach is a retired steelworker from LTV Mining. He says company officials never warned workers about the risk from asbestos. "You've got to wear a hard hat and you've got to wear glasses. That's to protect yourself. Why don't somebody say you've got to wear this type of mask too, for asbestos. Nobody ever did," he said. Tim Carlson, a union safety official at the Minntac mine, says he and others want to know whether dust from the taconite ore is dangerous. "It's taken a little bit too much time, I feel, but I think we're headed where we're supposed to go. I think we've got to look at the taconite itself."
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