[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Back east in the 1930’s depression there was a tunnel being built. West Va comes to mind. The dust was so bad that there were 400 workers killed due to the silica dust. But those were desperate times and there was no shortage of replacement workers.

At some of the mines out west in Idaho and Nevada the same thing was happening with Silica dust.

One of my co-workers here came down with cancer from Asbestos exposure. He got a big settlement and he deserved every penny of it.

I have seen men working in fly ash dust blow their nose and the snot come out looking like dirty toothpaste.

Yes, it WILL kill you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis

[xcamel]

I guess that wearing PPE (which in these modern times is THE LAW) is a foreign concept to you... As seems even the tiniest bit of personal responsibility...

[The Antiyuppie]

This is a REAL disease. My great-uncle, who never smoked, blew in asbestos insulation in ships, and died from this. The kind of lung cancer that it produces is very different than from smoking. There is a form of asbestos that is so bad that a single exposure can cause cancer many years later. Now if diagnoses and illnesses are abused by doctors and lawyers, this is another matter.