[TheForge] Safety concerns - zinc

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

We are all worried about Jim, a great hearted smith.
Let's add paint or plating that has cadmium or lead in it to the don't 
burn list...that's most older stuff that was painted for exterior 
use..that stuff has a less immediate but more lasting consequences. Most 
all of it is cumulative.
  Sorry, I make a funny looking Jewish mother...Pete F

Ron Childers wrote:
> Bill keeps us in *stiches* with tails of his misadventures but something
> happened recently to a friend of mine that is "deadly" serious.
> 
> We have all burned the zinc off galvanized metal and gotten away with it
> with no apparent ill effects. Jim Wilson, however, was inside a closed shop,
> burning it off with a torch- he knew better; in fact, he sent his helper out
> of the shop because he knew it was dangerous. We like to think we are
> indestructible, but the fumes caused (metal fume fever?) and Jim is now in
> the hospital in intensive care and gravely ill. 
> 
> I know he would not mind my publishing the story as a warning to avoid
> breathing the fumes from burning or welding galvanized metal.
> 
> Ron Childers
> 
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