Officials of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union said that a crisis meeting stopped work at CITIC Pacific’s AUD5.2 billion Sino iron ore project near Karratha, Western Australia, after asbestos was found on site, WAtoday.com.au reports.
On Sept. 18, 2009, AMWU State…
The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles reinstated the asbestos case filed by the family of Patrick O’Neil against Crane Co. and Warren Pumps Llc, the Courthouse News Service reports.
After Mr. Patrick O’Neil died of mesothelioma, his wife…
Project manager for Independence Excavating, Leo Slansky, said that there are 40 workers from Precision Environmental who are undertaking asbestos abatement and other environmental work at a row of mill buildings along Mile Lock Lane in Brackenridge, Pa., Mesothelioma.com reports.
The…
Workers with U.S. government environmental agencies declared the now-closed Vibratech manufacturing plant in Buffalo, N.Y., cleared of asbestos and other hazardous materials, MesotheliomaWeb.org reports.
The cleanup process took more than nine months and cost nearly US$2 million.
The Company once used the…
Lawyers for former James Hardie Industries N.V. directors, on Sept. 21, 2009, told an Australian court that the directors will appeal (in 2010) against Justice Ian Gzell’s April 2009 ruling over asbestos compensation, The Age reports.
THE question of whether the…
The Cheshire County Court in New Hampshire indicted Lourdes Ramirez-Crucellas, a language professor at Keene State College, for illegally disposing of asbestos waste into KSC dumpsters, The Equinox reports.
According to Mary Jensen, coordinator of sustainability programs and recycling for KSC,…
During the week of Aug. 31, 2009 through Sept. 4, 2009, about 15 new asbestos lawsuits were filed in Madison County Circuit Court, Ill., The Madison St. Clair Record reports.
These cases are:
– (Case No. 09-L-898) Eddie R. Bryan of Georgia,…
U.S. District Court Judge Dana M. Sabraw, on Aug. 31, 2009, dismissed prosecution’s evidence against Kyle Rheubottom, who supervised an excavation contracted by San Diego Gas & Electric in 2000 that allegedly exposed some residents Lemon Grove, Calif., to asbestos,…
The family of Frances Theobald, a former Swindon, England, factory worker, seeks Mrs. Theobald’s former work colleagues to come forward and help in their asbestos compensation claim, This is Wiltshire.co.uk reports.
Mrs. Theobald worked at Swindon’s now defunct Garrard Engineering and…
Jacksonville Elementary School, in Little Rock, Ark., is being inspected for safety and building code violations, including the potential presence of asbestos, Mesothelioma reports.
Led by senior city building inspector Martin Sanady, the inspectors at the school found several other health…