White Lung disease and working MOW on the Railroad

[Anonymous]

My uncle who worked in the Quarrys in Bedford IN (SOO LINE?) told me storys of menb who got sick fromwhite lung from Limestone dust. This must be a problem for railroader laying Ballast in MOW way work and even being a Conductor..

[edblysard]

Ya know,
I try really hard to be tolerant other people's idoiosyncrasies, I have a few of my own, but...

How in the world do you think up this stuff?

You got a lifetime subscription to National Enquirer, or what?

Or did you just cut back too far on the Praxil?

Ed

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Clevelandrocks

My uncle who worked in the Quarrys in Bedford IN (SOO LINE?) told me storys of menb who got sick fromwhite lung from Limestone dust. This must be a problem for railroader laying Ballast in MOW way work and even being a Conductor..

I live near a big Indiana Limestone quarry, and have found that smoking 2 1/2-3 paks of cigarettes a day, really helps fight off the white lung demons. I just make it a point to hack up a 3 lb ingot of marble each morning, and I'm good to go, for the rest of the day.

6 more years and I'll have the patio by the pool about finished.[xx(]

[arbfbe]

Simply, yes, white lung is a problem in the railroad industry among section workers. It is an ongoing problem that workers in the affected crafts have been able to prove in court. The railroads have closed some of their old quarries and have opened new ones that provide harder rock, think granite not sedimentary shales, that is washed before loading into railcars for application.

alan

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Ya know,
I try really hard to be tolerant other people's idoiosyncrasies, I have a few of my own, but...

How in the world do you think up this stuff?

You got a lifetime subscription to National Enquirer, or what?

Or did you just cut back too far on the Praxil?

Ed

Clevelandrocks is very busy keeping himself in the spotlight generating new topics (3 on average per page as of late). I do not know, nor care, what his overall agenda is, but if he could only take breaks every now and then and spread out his questions a little more, that would show some common courtesy to all the fine folks here.

[Randy Stahl]

I believe there is something to it, at the WC we built remote dumping ballast cars. It is possible to dump a whole train from your hirail truck. I know that the PPE for dumping rock requires a dustmask on most lager RRs.
Randy

[espeefoamer]

...even being a conductor.
Punching tickets sure raises the old limestone dust!