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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-05 08:03 AM
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NO, asbestos... toxic sludge? How much is too much?
So who looks out for the guys who will be working on machinery that has been working in, submerged in, and generally polluted by the asbestos, toxic chemicals and so forth in NO?

You can quite often drop a belly pan off of a dozer and get several wheelbarrows full of whatever (usually muck and dirt) but in a place that is being dozed with buildings as old as these are.... does ANYONE check for what is being pushed around as if it were the same old same old???

I am sure there is going to be fallout from this.. but who if anybody is going to watch out for the working man??
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-05 08:06 AM
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1. The working man is an expendable, renewable, biodegradable resource. n/t
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-05 08:17 AM
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3. Well, it's nice to know how valued you really are.... crap. My new
garb for going to work.... or at least it should be.

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skylarmae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-05 08:13 AM
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2. Just hope that some valuable lessons were learned from
ground zero in NYC. The workers and especially the dogs that were combing the rubble, sick or dying or already dead....
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