Asbestos Is in Debris From Explosion, but Not in the Air
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City officials said today that it is unlikely that anyone will have long-term health effects from exposure following the explosion in Midtown yesterday.
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Montgomery County firefighters responded to Bel Pre Elementary School in Silver Spring this morning after a construction worker found what he thought might be the remains of a pipe bomb but instead it turned out to be an item known as an improvised launching device.
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HOUSTON - An explosion at a rubber maker's warehouse killed a man and blew out the building's windows and walls on Thursday, authorities said.  No other injuries were reported in the midday blast inside the American Elastomer Products warehouse in southeastern Houston.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A series of explosions that devastated a chemical distribution plant and shrouded this city in black smoke was an accident, officials said Friday.  Fire Chief Richard Dyer said the blaze started Wednesday when employees were offloading a petroleum-based product.
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JAMES Hardie Industries NV today said it was closer to signing off on a compensation agreement for future asbestos victims. But the building products group has refused to say whether the agreement - potentially
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NEW YORK  - After asbestos exposure, men are more likely than women to develop malignant mesothelioma, according to an Australian study.
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BEIJING -- An explosion tore through a coal mine in central China yesterday, sending smoke billowing from air vents and trapping at least 166 miners in tunnels and shafts below without a method of communication, the government said.
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Road cordons around the site of an explosion at a chemicals plant in Gloucestershire are lifted.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Asteroids and meteorites are supposed to be made of the same stuff â at least that's what earth science teachers have been telling their students for decades. But until re-cently, the data didn't quite fit the story.
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Asbestos victims have hailed an agreement detailing how James Hardie intends to compensate them, but caution the deal is not yet legally binding.
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Sucha Ram was getting ready to tar the roof of a building in the Bronx last year when he fell over the side, plunging 15 feet to his death. He was not wearing any fall-protection gear and had never received formal training in fall hazards, a report said.
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A new congressional report says the Environmental Protection Agency potentially exposed scores of residents, volunteers and workers to asbestos fibers by not doing more to monitor the contaminant in the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina.
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Infection with simian virus 40 (SV40) plays little or no role in the development of mesothelioma, a cancer affecting the lining of the lungs that has been linked to asbestos exposure, according to a report in The Lancet.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va., Dec. 7 -- State investigators have concluded that the Sago Mine explosion that killed 12 miners in January was caused by a lightning bolt that ignited methane gas underground, a union official said.
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Some New Yorkers doubted official assurances on Thursday that the air surrounding a deadly steam pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan was safe to breathe despite the discovery of asbestos-tainted debris.
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The brand of air pack used by miners during the Sago Mine disaster is prone to have damaged air hoses and can make it difficult for miners to breathe, according to a federal report obtained by The Associated Press.
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VANCOUVER -- Concerns that the dome within Mount St. Helens&#39;s crater could release a rock-flinging, ash-filled explosion grew Wednesday after earthquake activity beneath the volcano steadily intensified.