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RG/320 survey via 4Kam in Somerset old asbestos roof with defects RAGBAGROOFMAN
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RG/320 survey via 4Kam in Somerset old asbestos roof with defects RAGBAGROOFMAN |
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Physicians Against the Quarry - Temecula Area Doctors Speak About the Health Risks
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More than 160 Temecula Valley-area physicians have joined a coalition against the proposed Liberty Quarry. This video contains interviews with seven of them who detail the very real and very serious health risks that building a quarry would bring to the several hundred thousand residents of this area. Crystalline silica, asbestos, heavy metals and other toxic substances released by the daily blasting of rock, would travel through the air and into residents' lungs, causing deadly silicosis, mesothelioma (an aggressive form of lung cancer), diabetes, neurological disorders, genetic changes and other serious illnesses. These doctors are gravely concerned that this possible quarry would seriously affect the health of their most vulnerable patients (such as those with asthma and other issues) as well as that of healthy people. Help protect families and children in Temecula, Murrieta, Menifee, Rainbow and Fallbrook by urging the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to Vote NO on Liberty Quarry! |
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Asbestos Vancouver: How do you know if you have it?
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mastersremediation.com Asbestos Removal Vancouver - Masters Remediation Services answers the common concern how to know if you have it. 24-hr service: 604-838-8808 |
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House Demolition Creates Asbestos Exposure Hazard (Atlanta - 01FEB12).mpg
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Improper House Demolition Creates Asbestos Exposure Hazard (Atlanta - 01FEB12) An anonymous tip is provided to the state environmental protection division. A local contractor demolishes a fire-damaged home without regard to the asbestos exposure hazard that is created. Local Atlanta TV news (Richard Belcher - WSB TV - Channel 2) reporter is on site with a state environmental specialist discussing the improper handling of the asbestos-containing materials observed and the public health hazard to the surrounding community created by this uncontrolled activity. |
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fan and starter motor
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just some stuff buried in my basement. for the starter motor to start anything it needs a higher amp battery. the fan is louder and is going faster than it looks in the vid. ignore the asbestos filled furnice i know the risks. |
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Dangerous Asbestos Types
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Asbestos is a fiber that's mined from the ground. There are three primary types of asbestos that are used in industry. Chrysotile asbestos, which is the most common. amosite, and crocidolite. In the United States 95% of all asbestos products were made out of chrysotile asbestos. Asbestos that came from Canada. Less than 5% were made out of amosite asbestos, and almost none of the products used in the United States were made out of crocidolite. It's not surprising is it? That the defendants in the asbestos litigation, 95% of whom made chrysotile products contend in court that chrysotile is a "friendly fiber." It doesn't cause disease. And that all of the asbestos disease in America, especially mesothelioma, is caused by the other 4% or 5% of asbestos manufacturers. This defense has been defeated in the Newport News circuit courts many times, but in every one of our trials, this is an issue that we have to contend with, because the asbestos industry has a cottage industry of experts who'll come into court and say that their product was not harmful to you. Fortunately for our clients, the government has researched this issue. OSHA. EPA. The World Health Organization. And medical journals all over the world have concluded that chrysotile does cause mesothelioma. That amosite causes mesothelioma. That crocidolite causes mesothelioma. And that all of the manufacturers who made products with any of these fibers contributed to cause mesothelioma in the users of those products <b>...</b> |
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An Asbestos Attorney With Military Experience
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Interviewer: You told me you spent nine years in the US military, in the army. How do you think that has affected or influenced the way that you practice law? Interviewee: Well, I think that what the military did for me was it matured me and it helped me to understand how people react and think and what their values are. I led--in my last job in the military, I was in charge of 105 soldiers in every aspect of their--pretty much their existence and so it really also helped with some incredible management skills and interpersonal skills. Interviewer: Do you think that your military experience has made you or helped you be a better lawyer? Interviewee: I think so. Throughout my military career, I was required to regularly communicate ideas and principles to people in various forum, everything from two people to 100 people and so it has greatly helped my oral communication skills, my ability to get across to people and to communicate ideas. Interviewer: Do you think that your military experience helps you, you know, relate better to the people you are helping here that have a, you know, military background? Interviewee: Well, I think so. It helps me to speak the lingo. We handle so many cases involving sailors from the Navy and just being able to take a look at their military records and understand what I am looking at I think is a great advantage over many attorneys, and so my military background has really helped with that. It also helps me to understand and empathize with <b>...</b> |
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Asbestos: Harming Your Body
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When microscopic asbestos fibers are released into the air, you breathe those fibers just like you would breathe any other dust that might be in the air. The first thing that happens is that the defense mechanisms in your body -- the hairs in your nose, the cilia in your throat, and the macrophages in your lungs -- try to remove these foreign particles from your body. Unfortunately, asbestos has some very unique characteristics that overcome your body's normal defense systems. The first is that they are very thin, and very small. And so they go beyond the hairs in your nose, the cilia in your throat, and they get into your lungs. The fibers then frequently break down into even smaller fibers. These fibers do one of two things. They either stay in the lungs where scar tissue develops around those fibers, just like if you had a splinter in your finger and you couldn't get it out. What would happen would be a scar would develop over that splinter. Well, in your lungs, millions and millions of scars are formed in a very microscopic way until those scars eventually become so dense that an asbestosis victim can't breathe. Or those fibers in the lungs turn to cancer. Lung cancer. That's the cancer inside your lung. Or those fibers migrate from your lungs into the lining of your lung -- the pleura. Once they get there, they set up a reaction that leads to cancer. That's mesothelioma. So that's the way asbestos bypasses the defenses of your body, and leads to chronic diseases like <b>...</b> |
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Defense Experts in Asbestos Lawsuits
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An explanation of how the defense may use experts to fortify their case in asbestos lawsuits. |
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Virginia Mesothelioma Hotspots
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Most of our clients come from the shipyards. People that worked in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. People who worked at Norfolk Shipbuilding. People that worked at the Newport News Shipyard. People that worked at Horne Brothers. People that worked at other small shipyards throughout Tidewater. The second most common place is the United States Navy. Men who worked as boilermakers. Men who worked even fire watch in the engine rooms where asbestos was all over the place. The third most common place is the military bases, and the industry in this area. The refineries. The power plants. The chemical companies. All of these places had extensive use of asbestos-containing products. And our clients come from all over the state of Virginia to have us represent them for asbestos-related diseases that resulted from exposure on these types of jobsites. |
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Latency Period for Asbestos Diseases
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You know, everyone knows what latency is. If I have a cold and you're exposed to me, two or three or four days later you may get a cold. The latency for a cold is only two, three, or four days. Unfortunately, for asbestos-related diseases, the latency between the time you breathe asbestos and the time you manifest a disease or you're diagnosed with a disease is twenty, thirty, forty, even fifty years after the exposure occurs. This is why people use these products for so long. Because they never had any idea at the time they were using these products, breathing the dust, that the dust was hurting them in any way, because it would be twenty, thirty, forty years before the affects of breathing that dust caused them to develop a cancer. A disabling or a deadly disease, or deadly cancer. |
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Forms of Mesothelioma
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There are two primary types of mesothelioma. The first is a malignant cancer of the lining of the lung, which the doctors call pleura. The second is a malignant cancer of the lining of the abdomen, and they call that the peritoneum. So there's peritoneal mesothelioma, and there's pleura mesothelioma. The one thing they both have in common is that they're both caused by asbestos. The one thing that they also have in common is that the prognosis is the same. |
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Investigating Asbestos Related Injuries
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When you're an asbestos trial lawyer, you receive calls from people who've received a diagnosis of an asbestos-related disease. The first question they ask you is do I have a case? It's not a simple question. When we get calls from clients who want us to investigate an asbestos-related disability, we go through a number of investigative steps that are required in every case. The first thing we do is confirm the diagnosis independently with pathologists, with pulmonary specialists, who look at the pathology or review the records to make sure that in fact this is an asbestos-related diagnosis. To make sure that this is mesothelioma and not some other cancer, and that is often an issue that can be controverted. Once we determine that the victim really does have an asbestos-related disease, we then have to determine who's responsible. That requires investigation. Not only the investigation of the memory of our client -- and many times they're gone, they've died before the family ever came to us -- but the memory of his coworkers. The records of his employer. So we get the medical records of the client. We get the employment records of the client. We call his coworkers. And we look into all the various ways that we can find out which asbestos products were used by him, which asbestos products were used around him, and which asbestos products are now manufactured by companies who can be sued and who can compensate our client. That process of examining the medical, examining the <b>...</b> |
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Public Health
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The public health background has been as important to me as my law background in terms of how I represent my clients. If you have ever sat in on a mesothelioma case, it will seem like it is parade of experts. It is almost a battle of the experts so, and having this sort of background, understanding how to read literature, understanding what methodology should be followed, helps me get my experts' points across about why our clients have been damaged and why they should be compensated, and also helps me attack the false reasoning of the defense experts who really do not follow accepted scientific protocols in reaching their conclusions that our people have not be harmed by asbestos. |
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Encapsulated Asbestos Fibers
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I frequently hear defense attorneys tell juries my client's product is not dangerous because the asbestos in my client's product was encapsulated. These defenses have no legitimacy whatsoever. If you take a microscope and you look at the surface of everyone of these products, you'll see that the fibers were not encapsulated. The asbestos fibers are lying right there on the surface, but they're microscopic. And every time one of these products is used, it usually requires that it be cut, it be sanded, it be mixed, it be sawed. And whenever these activities are performed on an asbestos product, those fibers are released into the air in the millions. But you'll never see those fibers unless you have a special beam of light, what they call a tindle light that helps you to see it. With your naked eye, it's totally invisible. So the companies who make these products want juries, and they want you, to think that their product was not dangerous because it was "encapsulated." Asbestos is never encapsulated when it's used in its intended fashion. |
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Grossular,Jeffery Mine,Asbestos,Quebec
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Grossular,Jeffery Mine,Asbestos,Quebec By FineMineralBlog |
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Grossular,Jeffery Mine,Asbestos,Quebec By FineMineralBlog |
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Grossular,Jeffery Mine,Asbestos,Quebec By FineMineralBlog |
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Monday Night Live! Hosted by Mark J. Lucas
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Hey folks! This Monday, February 6th 2012 we'll be doing Monday Night Live again, with host Mark J. Lucas and featuring the best sketch comedy in town from Asbestos Crew, SAG Attack, Columbus is Funny, and musical guest Dane Terry. Come on down to Wild Goose Creative. Cover is a mere $5 at the door. Be there or miss out! |
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Asbestos Fibers Can Cause Mesothelioma Disease
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Mesothelioma is a cancer of the lining of your lung. The doctors call that the pleura. Most people have heard of pleurisy. That's when you have fluid inside your lung that is very painful. But mesothelioma is caused by asbestos fibers getting into that area of your lung, and causing a malignant cancer. |
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Second Hand Mesothelioma
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The first client that I ever represented who had an asbestos disease was Robert Vandyke. The year was 1975. Robert came to me with asbestosis. And I thought that asbestos was something only affected people who worked with asbestos products. The next year his wife developed mesothelioma, and that's when I learned that mesothelioma, which is a cancer of the lining of your lung, can be caused by very short and very low exposure to asbestos. Exposure that comes from a wife who simply washes her husband's clothes. From a wife who vacuums up the dust that falls onto her rugs or her floors from her husband's clothes. Lula Vandyke had mesothelioma, but she was only the first here in Newport News. We have represented forty-two people who never used asbestos, never worked with asbestos. They were family members of workers in the shipyard or workers in the industry who handled asbestos as part of their usual jobs. These family members -- brothers, wives, and children -- became victims of mesothelioma from the asbestos that was brought into their homes, even though they never worked with the product in their entire life. |
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Responsible Parties in Asbestos Litigation
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The companies that are named as defendants in asbestos litigation are not the companies that the asbestos victim may have been familiar with in the last ten years or the last twenty years. Because asbestos diseases have a long latency period, usually thirty or forty years. So our job is to reconstruct all the various asbestos products that a mesothelioma victim, or a lung cancer victim, or an asbestosis victim may have worked with or around thirty and forty years ago. This means that we usually end up with a dozen or two dozen different companies who are named as defendants in these cases. And it also means that there's a lot of research and a lot of investigation that goes into determining who's responsible for any one individual's asbestos-related disease. |
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