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Asbestos Exposure May Shorten Firefighters’ Life Expectancy
 
Asbestos Exposure May Shorten Firefighters’ Life Expectancy

Asbestos Exposure May Shorten Firefighters’ Life Expectancy

The Firefighting Authority is putting into place new safety measures for handling asbestos fires, which may pose firefighters their greatest health risk. Yesterday’s fire in Keshet gave firefighters their first opportunity to try out new regulations. The firefighters used protective equipment and washed themselves afterward to minimize their exposure to asbestos. Firefighters around the [...]

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Mesothelioma Watch was created as a means to hold asbestos manufacturers and companies who forced their employees to work with and around asbestos accountable for the thousands of cases of cancer they have caused. We do this in three ways.

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Mesothelioma Lawsuits Begin in Japan

28 November 2008

Construction workers and next of kin of deceased workers filed a lawsuit in Tokyo, Japan seeking damages of approximately 6.6 billion yen (about US $444 million) from the government and manufacturers related to illnesses stemming from exposure to asbestos. 178 plaintiffs including construction workers and family members filed the suit against 46 building manufacturers and [...]

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About Asbestos Auto Brakes and Brake Jobs

26 November 2008

Everyone, including the EPA, knows that dust from asbestos based products is going to contain asbestos fibers.  The procedures that the EPA has laid out for brake jobs in this asbestos-averse era are remarkable.   If you work or have worked in a brake shop you should check them out at the link below. Briefly, the EPA [...]

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Asbestos Litigation Industry Report, 2008

20 November 2008

When the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy released its first Trial Lawyers, Inc. report, in 2003, we called asbestos litigation the longest-running mass tort in U.S. history and arguably the most unjust. Even as the incidence of new cases of the serious lung cancers caused by asbestos remained constant for mesothelioma, at 2,000 to [...]

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Canadians Demand End to Asbestos Mining

20 November 2008

The Canadian Labor Congress is calling for a ban of all asbestos mining in Canada, even though a recent study on the cancer risks of asbestos has not yet been released.  Seven scientific and medical experts, hired by Health Canada, submitted their report examining the link between asbestos and cancer in March. However, the report [...]

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Asbestos-by-the-Lake in Chicago

14 November 2008

In Illinois the Illinois State Beach Park provides summer shore relief for thousands of residents.  In Chicago proper, one of the most popular beaches is Oak Street Beach, which has one of the largest deep water swimming areas available for public use.  That makes it the training ground for hundreds of triathletes, scuba divers and [...]

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Asbestos and the Naval Shipyards

14 November 2008

John signed up for the Navy when he was just a teenager, and he remained in the Navy until he retired decades later. John worked around asbestos insulation and it took its toll. He died of asbestosis after years of suffering. Now his granddaughter would like to know why the Navy doesn’t have to answer [...]

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