My son called me yesterday around 5pm....
"Mom, I got gassed today".
You got WHAT?
My son is an apprentice pipefitter. He is currently working in a hell hole in the Detroit area. No one wants to work there. Camera's are not allowed there.
OSHA SHOULD be there.
He tells me that his supervisor gives them new cartridges for their respirators every TWO weeks... Excuse me? Two freaking weeks? He is working in a highly toxic area.
OSHA requirements say they are allowed:
"concentrations of benzene exceed or can reasonably be expected to exceed, the permissible exposure limits, either the 8-hour time weighted average exposure of 1 ppm or the short-term exposure limit of 5 ppm for 15 minutes. "
My son was sick to his stomach, didn't quite know where he was, said he thought his head was going to explode.
They took him to a clinic...not a hospital (grrrrrrr). Luckily his boss went with him. He MADE the doctor take blood samples. He called last night and this morning to check on my boy.
This, taken from a Detroit News article in 2005: "The home to US Steel, Zug Island is so full of toxins that, 40 years ago, it was considered the most polluted square mile on Earth."
You can go to the EPA's website, put in Zug Island and get pages and pages of penalties, etc.
And my son works there.
My son could have died there.
US Steel and Ford? I am doing my research. You will hear from me.
US Government? You too will hear from me.
1 comment:
Good Ghandi! They let people work in those conditions? The EPA, and US government allow it??
Thank goodness he is still alive a lethal dose of that is not much.
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