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27. Thanks. I will pass this along.

Fri Feb 22, 2013, 01:41 PM

Feb 2013

I don't remember where the area he was telling me about is. I think it had something do do with uranium though.

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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

Ha! pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #31

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

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

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

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

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