Posted on 01/08/2006 11:12:51 AM PST by saquin
That seems like sort of a high number to me.
Lots of guys worked more than that. 100 hours a week was not uncommon amongst the recovery workers in the first couple of months.
alot of the workers and police/firemen who were down there - did not wear breathing filters.
Mayhap this will mean Freedom Tower will be Mostly (95%) LED lighting.
I tend to like to think of him as a hero...not a victim. There were many heros in those days following 9/11, some have already died and others will in times to come...
Let us always call them Hero.
Sadly, he won't be the last. Expect a BUNCH of emergency workers to die over the next ten years from exposure.
Didn't they wear masks?
"Let us always call them Hero"
You are so right, and I stand corrected.
What? No mention of the baked salmon salad?
Highly unlikely.
Black lung disease is a specific medical condition developed by coal miners, usually after decades of exposure.
I have no clue what mercury on the brain is, but I'm sure it's not a specific disease.
While there may have been significant total amounts of mercury released when the Towers collapsed, any one person is likely to only have been exposed to minute quantities. In addition, the mercury released would probably have been in elemental form, which is relatively harmless, not the organic forms that cause serious poisoning in low doses.
ready= reading.
sheesh
Obviously you've never worn a respirator for long. Nobody could effectively work for that many hours while wearing one. Not that this should have stopped them from enforcing appropriate respiratory protection.
More late victims of the attack. God Bless him.
I don't think regs will stop Americans from working a rescue.
Clinton will have a statement on this I'm sure. She was starting a little early when she said the workers were let back in Ground Zero too soon.
It would have been funny to watch her and the enviro thugs standing at the yellow tape line saying you can't go in till we say it's OK. I can just see the space suits people wandering around with air samplers for 5 years watching the WTC smoldering. NYC would have gone under and the nation would still be under waiting for the air to clear.
It's possible that too much caution was used in the recent mine explosion and it costs lives. I'm all for safety, but when lives are at stake, there is almost always hero's willing to push the envelope to save lives. I don't think you can order someone in to harm's way, but it's been my experience there are always volunteers. Remember Columbine? Standing around when children are being murdered isn't good. At the very least the teacher could have been saved by a quicker response.
Modern Floursecents have almost no mercury in them. The LEDs are in the Freedom Tower because it has become the boondoggle to end all boondoggles. The whole building will be gold-plated by the time it is done.
Respirator manufacturers still, for the most part, do not use interchangeable cartridges. This is because they often sell the respirators at or below cost, even give them away, on the assumption that they'll more than make it back over time on the high-markup cartridges. If cartridges were interchangeable, this approach wouldn't work.
Same economics play out in the purchase of inkjet printers.
Aren't you confusing the Freedom Tower with the Trump tower [being built down in Soth FLorida]??
God bless him and keep him.
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