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7/21/2003 Cat woman who scaled fiberglass factory smokestack set for trial. Multi-national polluter hopes to silence local dissent with intimidating civil suit.
11/19/2002 Owens Corning scientists recommend exposure level than half of the current asbestos limit to reduce cancer risk.
5/27/2002 Family in Virginia shares their fiberglass horror story with FIN readers, seeks medical and legal help.
4/25/2002 Asbestos litigation absurdity draining company coffers dry, leave legitimately injured dying of thirst.
12/21/2001 IARC re-evaluation of fiberglass cancer potential. Secret panel of "experts" retreats from 1988 designation.
10/1/2001 How low can you go? Fiberglass industry admits it will try to use Sept. 11 tragedy to sneak corporate killer bailout bill through Congress!
4/20/2001 Fibers send three Parliament staffers to Sydney emergency room.
10/20/2000 Frequently Asked Questions
10/5/2000 Owens Corning Corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from the U.S. courts. The largest bankruptcy filing in America this year, by the world's largest manufacturer of fiberglass insulation, puts the brakes on payments to some 460,000 victims of the company's Kaylo asbestos pipe coverings. Meanwhile, O-C's many employees in Congress are pushing a bill which will give the company a billion-dollar bailout.
5/15/2000 United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Toxicology Program has just released Ninth Annual Report on Carcinogens. Conclusion: Fiberglass is still "reasonably anticipated to cause cancer in humans." This report is now on-line. Fiberglass was first listed in 1994 after a huge battle, in which industry pulled every dirty trick in the book to try and prevent listing.
Sick from fiberglass and doctors cannot or will not help you? Here are some simple guidelines for reducing contamination and getting on the road to recovery.
Dean Lavery worked making fiberglass headliners for United Technologies Automotive. read about how his occupation cheated him out of a healthy life.
The fiberglass manufacturing plant in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada was one of the dirtiest. An epidemiological study in the mid 1980s showed Sarnia fiberglass workers' lung cancer rate to be roughly double that of the general population. The plant closed in 1991, but the workers are still sick. The Occupational Health Clinic for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) has been helping former Owens Corning Fiberglas workers from Sarnia with workers' compensation claims. OHCOW wrote a report about its experiences and knowledge gleaned from these workers.
Five years after the Victims of Fiberglass group helped place fiberglass on a list of substances for priority action by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration, fiberglass lobbyists cut a deal with the federal government. The agreement precludes formal regulations in exchange for industry's acceptable of a weak exposure standard and more or less voluntary compliance. Exposure monitoring is the responsibility of producers and end users. We provide a verbatim copy of the press release.
In 1994, three researchers at Cornell University found a link between man-made mineral fibers in the settled dust in sick buildings, and the number of Sick Building Symptom complaints by workers.
