[PRCo] Re: PRC 4398

[John Swindler]

My father once mentioned that a 'scarfer' in the steel mills never lived to 
retirement.

John



>From: <dfc1 at alltel.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRC 4398
>Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:07:35 -0600
>
>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
>
>
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > >-----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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