August 17th, 2009
On April 2, 2009, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration confirmed the finding of asbestos in isolated areas of the Ash Grove Cement Co. limestone quarry in Montana City, Montana.
MSHA spokeswoman Amy Louviere said the agency found tremolite asbestos in several samples taken from the quarry last month. She ...
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August 10th, 2009
On, March 23, 2009, a past W.R. Grace & Co. employee testified that he warned supervisors of asbestos hazards in 1976, when studies illustrated consumer products were emitting high concentrations of the dangerous fibers. “I felt there was a train wreck occurring and I wanted to tell my boss,” said ...
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August 9th, 2009
Residents of a small mining town in Montana have waited anxiously for their day in court. After years of delays, a major chemical company faces federal charges accusing it of poisoning the residents homes and schools with asbestos.
On February 23, 2009, opening statements are scheduled in the case of U.S. ...
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August 3rd, 2009
On December 19, 2008, Minnesota Public Radio broadcasted a story about Taconite workers in northeastern Minnesota being diagnosed with mesothelioma at twice the expected rate. Mesothelioma is a rare cancer that attacks the lining of the lung, caused by exposure to asbestos.
Over the years, several attempts have been made to ...
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July 16th, 2009
Recently a California man diagnosed earlier this year with a deadly asbestos-related cancer won a $7.5 million settlement. The plaintiff, age 64 was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a fatal cancer of the lining of the chest cavity and lungs. His exposure most likely took place when he worked as a marine ...
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June 29th, 2009
On September 26, 2008, public health officials began informing former employees of a Fremont manufacturing plant that they might have been exposed to asbestos. Workers of the Flintkote Co. were exposed to low levels of asbestos between 1967 and 1979, according to a report from the Federal Agency for Toxic ...
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June 18th, 2009
On September 10, 2008, the Tennessee Supreme court ruled that Alcoa Inc. can be sued for the asbestos-related death of a former worker's daughter. The Pittsburgh-based company had argued that it should not be held responsible for the former worker’s daughter’s mesothelioma, a rare cancer associated with asbestos that lead ...
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May 26th, 2009
On September 6, 2008, a former shipyard worker won a $4.39 million jury verdict from an Illinois maker of asbestos-related parts that he asserted gave him a terminal form of cancer.
The plaintiff, a former worker at Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp., was awarded $4 million in compensatory damages and $390,000 ...
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April 29th, 2009
On July 1, 2008, Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said additional asbestos at the decommissioned Toledo Edison Acme power plant in East Toledo's planned Marina District development would be removed in advance of a partial demolition later this year.
That part of the effort to clean up and incorporate the building into ...
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April 20th, 2009
On May 27, 2008, a New Jersey State Appeals Court ruled that fifteen Spanish citizens can sue Owens-Illinois in New Jersey Superior Court on claims they suffered health problems from exposure to asbestos while working aboard U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships docked at United States-Spanish military installations in Rota ...
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