[PRCo] Re: PRC 4398

[dfc1 at alltel.net]

Try living in the coke region.  It used to take 2-3 months after the summer job at beehive coke ovens to be able to blow my nose and not have my tissue turn black.  Imagine what it was like to spend a lifetime working the laury or the leveler on top of those ovens.

DF Cramer


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> From: "Dietrich, Robert J." <Robert.Dietrich at unisys.com>
> Date: 2004/12/01 Wed AM 08:35:43 CST
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRC 4398
> 
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> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: ken Josephson. . . 
> >
> >Several plant employees noted that this is a common fate for steel
> objects 
> >around the plant. They get a bit more rain than we do in the valley,
> but >the 
> >employees attribute the rusting to sulfur dioxide and steam emissions
> >mixing 
> >in the immediate area.
> >
> >This could be compared to what the Pittsburgh Low Floors were exposed
> to, >as 
> >you noted above.
> >
> >Makes me wonder what those power plant employee's lungs look like....
> >
> >K. 
> 
> They probably look like our lungs after living in da 'burgh all those
> years.  I sure hope they've (lungs) cleaned themselves out.
> 
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>