Medical Center Faces Fine for Asbestos Exposure

Medical Center Faces Fine for Asbestos Exposure

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Medical Center Faces Accomplished for Asbestos Exposure

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Kansas City’s Research Medical Center is an $84,000 accomplished for possibly advertisement 85 workers to asbestos, a actual that causes mesothelioma, lung cancer, and a bulk of respiratory problems.

Lengthy Investigation

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration appear a address afterwards a diffuse analysis into the matter, and the address declared the violations as “willful” and “serious.”

OSHA inspectors begin asbestos in the vinyl bank coverings in assorted abode throughout the hospital, including in a boiler allowance area operating engineers worked, in hallways, and in a radiation ascendancy room.

Hospital Acquainted of Dangers

The address said that the hospital was acquainted of that some of the bank coverings independent asbestos as aboriginal as September 2006 but bootless to acquaint employees.

According to a hospital official, the advisers accept been notified about their abeyant exposure. It has not been bent whether visitors to the hospital or patients were aswell potentially exposed.

The hospital has a bound bulk of time to altercation OSHA’s findings, pay the penalty, or accommodate a lower fine.

(Source: The Kansas City Star)

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Medical Center Faces Fine for Asbestos Exposure