[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 74, Issue 17

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Given so many of us have extensive exposures, someone ought to be making 
up a data base and tracking our health. It'd be real useful.
For example, I've 3 ex welder friends with Parkinson's just now.
My own exposures and medical history cover pages.

John Husvar wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/21/10 8:33 PM, "Jerry Frost" <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> extravagant sounding precautions. Xylene is BAD for you, really BAD.
>>
> 
> So _that's_ what happened to me! Now I know why I'm so craaaaazy, crazy
> enough to be a smith anyway! :)
> 
> When I worked in the overhead crane factory and for a crane service company
> we used Xylol (trade name for xylene) for parts cleaning and darn near
> everything else as a solvent, thinner and so on; no wimpy gloves, suits,
> respirators, etc.:)
> 
> Hell, it was also a factory joke to tell a guy to be careful using MEK to
> degrease gearboxes etc. and laugh at him when he passed out if he didn't pay
> attention. (Losing consciousness without warning is a known hazard of MEK.)
> 
> It's a wonder I've lived _this_ long. I've provably (not probably) been
> exposed to nearly every industrial chemical and hazardous material there is
> and with little or no protective gear. I'd bet there isn't one plant I did
> repairs in that wasn't loaded with asbestos. It was the industry standard
> insulation back in the day.
> 
> 
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