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The upstairs of the building we're in is used by the maintenance crew for the complex. I went up there this morning to get something and they were spray painting. The guy said to me they should get a booth because they can't wear respirators. I asked him why can't they wear respirators. He said that the insurance company won't allow them to because someone had breathing problems and died from wearing one.(not here) So I guess they would rather pay for lung and cancer treatments than a one in a million death.
-------------------- Eric PA Posts: 149 | From: Intercourse, PA | Registered: Jun 2004
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I wear protection in Intercourse we have different insurance companys. And no Sheila I work around tourists all day I hear many stupid things everyday, this was before lunch and work related. I know we are all tourists at one time or another but I don't think I go brain dead when I leave the state.
-------------------- Eric PA Posts: 149 | From: Intercourse, PA | Registered: Jun 2004
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If I remember right I read somehwere its a OSHA reg to wear proper breathing equipment while spraying. No Ins Co. is goona say that..
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If someone had breathing problems and died while wearing a respirator, I'd say that a proper fit test wasn't done. Fit tests make sure that the respirator fits the person correctly and that they are "fit" to wear them (that they don't have medical problems that prevent them from wearing respirators).
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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There is one guy that works for them that is allowed to wear one, it's the guy who does the gardening and he had to go to the doctor and be OKed to wear one. Sounds more like a preexisting condition to me but what do I know I talk to liars
-------------------- Eric PA Posts: 149 | From: Intercourse, PA | Registered: Jun 2004
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You never know about stuff like that. Some idiots come up with stupid rules and policies.
When I worked at the factory, Westpoint Stevens, formerly Westpoint Pepperell... I was given the job, one night on second shift, of moving some rolls of cloth which were too small to move with the fork lift. Upon asking my supervisor for a dust mask, being that the rolls were covered with a thick layer of formaldehyde laden dust and myself having severe allergies, I was told that I couldn't be issued one until the next day. When I asked why I was told that the plant nurse was not there on second shift and that she would have to be there to show me how to put it on....yeah, a 3M type dust mask.... I'm going...you got to be kidding? So I had to suck all that thick cloud of dust into my lungs because they refused to give me a dust mask. I was new and didn't know it at the time but, I could have refused to do the job and they wouldn't have been able to do a thing about it.
Several years later we recieved some bales of synthetic fiber which were giving off overwhelming powerful fumes of some kind, probably formaldehyde. It overpowered the guy who was working with it and he had just been taken to the ER when my boss calls me on the radio and orders me to take the forklift over and remove the bales to somewhere. Thankfully, I knew enough to refuse that time and politely radioed back "I'd rather not". There was a long pause, and then she radioed my more co-worker to do it. Nothing was ever said about it at all.
Just another reason to be glad that I quit that place.
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So I had to suck all that thick cloud of dust into my lungs because they refused to give me a dust mask. I was new and didn't know it at the time but, I could have refused to do the job and they wouldn't have been able to do a thing about it.
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