May 24, 2021
A Florida land development company filed an appeal with the state of Oregon seeking to overturn a nearly $75,000 fine related to the improper clean-up of asbestos-containing debris from a trailer court damaged during last year’s wildfires. Tampa-based Bach Development disputes the allegations from Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The state contends that Bach [...]
May 17, 2021
Mining is an industry that is full of hazards. Mining consistently ranks near the top of the list for annual workplace fatalities and injuries in the United States. When most people think of mining-related injuries, they think of things like landslides, explosions and cave-ins. If you are a California miner, you should be aware of [...]
May 3, 2021
The state of Oregon recently fined a Florida company more than $74,000 for failing to follow state guidelines pertaining to asbestos removal during the clean-up of a mobile home park near Medford ravaged by last fall’s wildfires. According to Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), crews from Tampa-based Bach Development removed and packaged asbestos-containing wildfire [...]
April 19, 2021
Many presume that a typical mesothelioma patient is a man who worked in a blue-collar industry that left him exposed to asbestos. In reality, for every four mesothelioma diagnoses involving males, one woman is diagnosed. While the disproportional number is not surprising, women are often an overlooked segment of mesothelioma victims. A new study reveals [...]
April 12, 2021
The link between asbestos exposure and mesothelioma diagnoses is irrefutable. In response to serious illnesses without a definitive cure combined with lives lost, countries around the world have implemented outright bans on importing and manufacturing the deadly mineral. While the United States implemented prohibitions on asbestos manufacturing, it continues to import it into the country. [...]
April 5, 2021
Asbestos imports to the U.S. nearly doubled last year to 300 tons compared with the previous year, according to the U.S. Department of Interior. The number represents a significant increase from the 172 tons of asbestos the country imported In 2019. The statistics come from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Mineral Commodity Summaries 2021, an annual [...]
March 29, 2021
Asbestos is a fibrous mineral that swept the nation from the 1920s to the 1980s as the primary resource of fire retardant coatings, insulation, and countless other products. While industry and government knew it was hazardous from the start, it wasn’t until the 1980s that workers learned about the dangers of asbestos, and after many [...]
March 15, 2021
Sixty-seven countries around the world have banned the use of asbestos. The U.S. is not among them — at least, not anymore. In 1989, the Environmental Protection Agency banned asbestos in American products, but after the industry sued, a federal appeals court overturned the EPA’s ban two years later. Though asbestos has been somewhat regulated [...]
March 9, 2021
Most homeowners or renters do not wake up to the alarming situation that confronted a New York resident last year. Sometime after his family moved into a Long Island rental home last May, Andrew Sirico — the father of three children — found something quite troublesome in his backyard. Four trailers filled with construction debris, [...]
