Asbestos in Manhattan explosion debris: officials
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Debris from an explosion of an aging steam pipe in midtown Manhattan contained asbestos, New York authorities said on Thursday, but no airborne samples of the dangerous mineral fiber were detected.
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Fire and emergency crews responded to the scene of a suspected steam explosion near Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on Wednesday during the evening rush hour, officials said.
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Families of victims killed in the  Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks will be able to  claim jewelry belonging to them under a new system unveiled by  police on Thursday.
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People who stripped minerals at a plant in Dearborn between the early 1950s and 1990 were exposed to hazardous levels of asbestos, according to a public health consultation released Tuesday by state and federal officials.
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The city's medical examiner concluded that the misuse of pills, not the dust of ground zero, caused the lung disease that killed a man who became a nationally known example of post-Sept. 11 illness, the examiner's spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.
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A heavy piece of construction equipment plummeted 23 stories Thursday from the site of last week's deadly fire at ground zero, crashing through a shed and hitting two firefighters in another accident at the plagued building, officials said.
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A crane dropped a container of debris from the 53rd floor of a signature skyscraper under construction a block from Times Square on Wednesday, injuring seven people, authorities said.
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The head of the largest program tracking the health of World Trade Center site workers said several have developed rare blood cell cancers, raising fears that cancer will become a "third wave" of illnesses among those exposed to toxic dust after Sept. 11.
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The official who handled a major Sept. 11 compensation fund said Thursday a similar effort should be made to limit asbestos liability lawsuits, a legislative priority this year for Republicans.
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A federal indictment charges that W.R. Grace and Co. and seven of its executives knew a mine was releasing cancer-causing asbestos into the air and tried to hide the danger from workers and townspeople.
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A New York woman has been added to the number of victims killed in the attack on the World Trade Center, in the first confirmed death from dust generated by the collapse of the twin towers.
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W.R. Grace and Co. and seven high-ranking employees knew a Montana mine was releasing cancer-causing asbestos into the air and tried to hide the danger to workers and townspeople, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday. More than 1,200 people became ill, and some of them died, prosecutors said.
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Volatile dust was blamed Friday in an explosion that leveled a sugar refinery, and crews pulled four bodies from tunnels beneath the mangled mass of metal and beams left by the blast.
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Federal health officials have drawn up a plan for autopsies of Sept. 11 workers when they die, to determine whether they were slowly killed by their exposure to World Trade Center dust.
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The Bush administration was guilty of  reckless disregard by failing to inform New Yorkers of health  risks from toxic air after the collapse of the World Trade  Center in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a leading environmental  group said on Wednesday.
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Relatives of some of the World Trade Center victims rallied at ground zero Wednesday to urge the city to remove the ashen remains of their loved ones from a landfill where debris was sorted after the terrorist attack.
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A New York police detective died of lung disease caused by injecting ground-up pills not exposure to toxic air from working in the rubble of the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks, the city's medical examiner said on Thursday.