Although I have discussed this issue in the past, I don’t recall grounding it from an historical document. In summary, many of the immigrants from Ellis Island originally worked in the coal mines. They later migrated to work in the Manville asbestos factory to escape those coal mines. As stated by Edward J. Purzycki in…
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With the fighting in both Gaza and the Ukraine, the microscopic and invisible asbestos-containing dust particles released by the bombing likely will be catastrophic to those locations in the coming years. After all, you can count the dead and injured bodies, you can check out bombed buildings and start to remove rubble and then build…
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I generally love “new to me” asbestos history, especially when it is global. This particular paper addressed and organized issues that you need to read to believe. Let’s start at the beginning. While researching some asbestos issues using Toxicdocs.org, I ran across a 2005 paper focusing on asbestos cement and Eternit which is translated into…
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I have been traveling for a while and won’t return to my home office for another week or two. Rather than rush through a blog, I have taken the opportunity to post a summary of my past blogs including title, date and a hot link. Typically, these summaries get a lot of viewers, and so…
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My last blog summary listing was on March 30, 2024. As the blogs that contain a summary always receive a good viewership, it is time for an updated chart. The below include the topic, the date, and a link to the particular blogs. Please enjoy. Thanks. Marty Blog Title Date Blog Location 1 Asbestos, a…
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As I start my summer break from the classroom and updating my three thesis, I have been giving some thought to ways in which AI might change various issues about asbestos: detecting Asbestos Containing Material, helping streamline the work in the labs, analyzing asbestos, and “on and on.” What I found in a simple Google…
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My third and final thesis for my masters program is titled “South African Blue Asbestos Fibers at the Illinois Beach State Park: Mistakes of our Past, Concerns for the future” located at https://theasbestosblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IBSP-5-52024.pdf. I hope that you find it interesting and informative. Although this paper focuses on issues in Illinois, the paradox of satisfying safety/environmental…
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As many of you know, I am researching blue asbestos (crocidolite) issues, including its use in transite pressure piping manufactured at the Waukegan, IL facility. This 1969 document was part of a batch that I purchased this week from the Johns-Manville document repository. I suspect that few people have seen it during the last 30…
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I am waist deep into my thesis research, with a current focus on the Asbestos Containing Material on the Illinois State Beach Park. Just to set the baseline, as of April 1980, even the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States recognized that kids and asbestos do not mix. As stated by the EPA: “It…
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I get a fair number of requests focused on asbestos issues arising from older home construction. Given that this is not my sweet spot on the historical use of asbestos, I have linked at https://theasbestosblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1989-Asbestos-in-Home-CPSC.pdf a 1989 joint publication by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission that…
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