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...As a result, heavy fumes would fill this small room. While performing this task Tim often felt light-headed and would experience a sense of prominent inebriation.... 
Most carpet installers don’t realize that the suffocating odor they have been breathing, for years on the job, comes from the same hazardous chemical that morticians use to embalm dead bodies. 
The professional look to clothing, with a crisp, classic finish is accomplished with steam, perchloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene and formaldehyde. Steam opens up a garments’ fibers allowing these chemical solvents (used as stiffeners, wrinkle resisters, water repellents and stain dissolvers) to penetrate the fabric better. 
It all started with a simple sneeze, but Jose didn't recollect someone saying Gesundheit. However, speaking only Spanish and some broken English, he would have never understood that. As it turns out, he desperately could have used that wish for good health. 
For years manufactured houses, that are fabricated in factories and then transported either in whole or in segments, have been a significant source of formaldehyde exposure for workers across the State of Washington. 
It all started when she experienced the frequent peeling of her hands. In a preventative measure to avoid further allergic reactions she stopped wearing them but she continued to work in the same immediate vicinity of other co-workers who used the same powdered gloves. 
During a typical work shift, many hospital staff nurses will lift 20 patients into bed and transfer 5-10 patients from a bed to a chair. Patients typically weigh well in excess of 100 pounds, so that means a minimum of two thousand five hundred pounds is moved every day. 
Excessive exposure to manganese fumes can result in a disease called manganism. Welders are frequently injured when tiny, infinitesimal airborne particles of manganese in the welding fumes enter the nose and mouth and are absorbed into the bloodstream where they cross the blood-brain barrier. 
Hundreds of people die each year from chronic asthmatic conditions caused by air pollution at work. Respirable silica is considered one of the most toxic. Dust at dangerous levels is commonly found in wood mills and in wood product fabrication or manufacturing plants. 
Most people are more worried about what other people think than they are about doing the right thing for themselves. Get over it. 
Because of this total disregard for Jose's well-being, dust crept into his lungs gradually, over years, slowly snuffing out his life's force until he died of respiratory failure. He left a grieving widow who was unaware of her right to obtain benefits because of his death. |
