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four hours of training in hazardous materials did not cover this new
product which came out while men were working on site; did workers even
see this information?
Inipol EAP22
Material Safety Data
Sheet - MSDS - that came out 7-28-89
States the following as to
health risks:
Warning!
Material may be absorbed through the
skin
Prolonged and repeated exposure may
cause
eye and skin irritation and may cause
blood and kidney damage
VECO
should volunteer names of its workers at that time & seek them out
to see how they are doing now, since they took regular blood and urine
samples during their work. Don't they care what the long term
effects are?
Or next time there is an
oil spill somewhere will other young unsuspecting innocents have their
health permanently damaged . . . & with all the human cost to
families, etc.
All ingredients were
considered hazardous***:
nitrogen, phosphorus, 2-butoxyethanol ***
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laurel phosphate. Why hasn't the company monitored the health of
these workers long term as required by law?***
"Oh, Just wear the
appropriate gear, " EPA & the company will say, goodness, could
they or would they ever supply such for everyone?
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"At
18 years old my son was on one team who worked for
VECO, contractor of Exxon, doing the bioremediation
spraying of inipol EAP 22 in Valdez area.
"...felt
tired all the time starting the end of his first
semester of college. Anemia from low red blood
cells; although, doctors have eliminate causes (not
dietary, not hereditary, not internal bleeding, not
leukemia, nor lymphoma), so far they can't find the cause.
"(Most
likely he has phosphorus poisoning or the
solvent exposures... but he doesn't know that's that
what it might be, so he didn't mention it to his
doctors... or if he did, he didn't know what the
components were) Could
it be hemolytic anemia from overexposure to chemicals?
"He
mentioned that the company drew blood with very large
needles so as to not destroy whatever it was they were
looking for. To this day he has an aversion to
having his blood drawn. He doesn't know the
results of the blood work that was done.
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Call
your own doctor for any & all records of blood-work
- Chart ***
& Check your
own red blood cell counts
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Safety Data Sheets just at your local bank?
It is a 3 ringed notebook that I saw at First National
Bank of Alaska in the break room that is about 3 inches
thick on every tidily thing you can think of including
white-out. ***
Since the workplace for these guys was at sea, where was
it posted for them?
I believe the MSDS on inipol
EAP 22, though appearing to be serious enough was not
complete, each ingredient has it's own MSDS, and with
2-butoxyethanol as one, which they just added to revamp
an old formula ( Had to "polish" the rocks,
you know, so added dry cleaning solvent & hid this
ingredient from public view!),
the company who owned the
contract (EXXON?) should have notified those exposed to
it that they need to be concerned about respiratory
problems, central nervous center damage, reproductive
damage, liver damage (and many serious forms of cancer?)
But then, until it's use in
August, 1989, the company said it didn't have any human
test results. I guarantee you that they do now,
and could have more, if they were truth seekers. ***
Did EPA track this experiment
as they said they would? |
"Inipol
Fellow" also ask your family if they've noticed a change in
your personality due to neurotoxicity or damage to the central
nervous system, etc
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