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Originally Posted by John Doe
Oh boy. Asbestos. Where to begin.
btw, Gotta--its mesothelioma. 
My dad worked in a Johns Manville (Jersey) asbestos shingle factory in the '50s during the summers in college. Never been sick a day in his life.
Wife represents successor of JM.
I represent ship workers than were exposed on mainly boiler room ops.
Lot of angles. |
I had a job many years ago as a Merchant Marine Fireman/Oiler/Watertender on some old steam ferries, which were originally built in the 30's & 40's. We had reciprocating steam engines (Skinner Uniflows), with a closed feed water cycle. So, we had to remove the cylinder oil from the feed water by filtering it through tanks which had screens coated with a mixture of asbestos and something called Sorbo-Cel. We would mix a fresh charge of this stuff up every day to keep the filters and the feed water clean. Cleaning the filter tank screens was nasty due to all the grease that coated up on them. We would hose this gunk off and let it fall into a trap and then use a steam syphon to eject it into the outside water.
This was perfectly legal at the time (early 70's), well before the US Dept. of Environmental Protection started regulating this and other forms of pollution.
Don't need a lawyer. JD. No harm to me.
May have killed a few fish back then, I don't know.