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In my late teens, I worked as a laborer on a variety of rehab projects in old railroad and rail-served industrial buildings, where among other things we yanked out old steam-heat and process-steam pipes jacketed with asbestos insulation, shoveled up all the broken bits on the concrete floor into wheelbarrows, knocked down walls with asbestos insulation, and shoveled them up, etc. We did that on one project for two months because we couldn't get a Bobcat loader into the spaces. All we ever wore were paper dust masks. After a few hours the masks were black with dirt and we looked like coal miners. Shortly afterward, asbestos was classified as a hazard. I've lived in fear of asbestosis ever since, but it's now been 25 years, knock on wood. <br /> <br />OS
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