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CaliforniaPeggy

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1. My dear backwoodsbob...

Reply to backwoodsbob (Original post)

Fri Feb 22, 2013, 03:02 AM

Feb 2013

How horrible for you and your friends...I am truly sorry to hear this news.

I'm not sure who should be called. Centers for Disease Control perhaps? There has to be some sort of place where this kind of thing is tracked.

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in the last six months at my old shop in Virginia [View all] backwoodsbob Feb 2013 OP

My dear backwoodsbob... CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2013 #1

it's scaring the fuck out of me backwoodsbob Feb 2013 #2

Sorry to hear that. RudynJack Feb 2013 #3

lots of chemicals backwoodsbob Feb 2013 #4

OSHA ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #5

+1. n/t Laelth Feb 2013 #20

You might call the Centers for Disease Control pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #6

"I once worked at a place where I believe the activities affected my health." 11 Bravo Feb 2013 #25

Ha! pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #31

NIH, CDC, http://www.vdh.state.va.us/ elleng Feb 2013 #7

You must ascertain whether it's the shop or possibly the town environment killing people. Selatius Feb 2013 #8

Difficult/impossible for an individual to ascertain, elleng Feb 2013 #9

It's probably a good idea to contact OSHA as well as the CDC. There's been enough death already. Selatius Feb 2013 #11

Right. I posted OSHA link above. elleng Feb 2013 #13

Where in VA is the shop located? Webster Green Feb 2013 #10

Sounds like an excellent contact for bwb. elleng Feb 2013 #12

a little town called Pounding Mill backwoodsbob Feb 2013 #23

Thanks. I will pass this along. Webster Green Feb 2013 #27

First call is to a doctor. Not a company doc that has to report to the company jtuck004 Feb 2013 #14

Checking for what? Toxins? Heavy metals? What? aquart Feb 2013 #17

Anytime someone is concerned about a medical condition that might jtuck004 Feb 2013 #24

your congress person, the CDC, barbtries Feb 2013 #15

Statistical variation accounts for anecdotal observations like this. Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2013 #16

Any of these ring a bell? aquart Feb 2013 #18

So sorry to hear this democrank Feb 2013 #19

This is so sad to hear. Someone gotta know but the problem is once you inform them southernyankeebelle Feb 2013 #21

There's also the EPA and the state health agencies. Blanks Feb 2013 #22

If there is a buck to make... Rider3 Feb 2013 #26

Those are very different cancers Ron Obvious Feb 2013 #28

it's possible I guess backwoodsbob Feb 2013 #29

US cancer incidence is about 540 / 100k Recursion Feb 2013 #32

Sound like a punch press factory I worked in for 2.1/2 years. 4_TN_TITANS Feb 2013 #30

This is freaky!! beaglelover Feb 2016 #33