Asbestos Cancer

... KTVZ.com - Central Oregon's Local News - DEQ fines county, contractor over asbestos SEARCH KTVZ.com HOME LOCAL NEWS LOCAL ALERT WEATHER SPORTS ROAD/TRAFFIC UPDATES NEWS LINKS COMMUNITY LINKS 21 & YOU WHAT'S COOKIN' PROGRAMMING ABOUT US CONTACT US CAREERS FEATURES Barney's Blog E-Mail Alerts High Desert Gardener RSS Feeds Print This Article E-mail This Article DEQ fines county, contractor over asbestos County not appealing fine, Nagelhout is Posted: 10:27 AM, Mar.

23, 2006 By KTVZ.com news sources The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has issued a $1,000 penalty to Deschutes County for allowing unlicensed persons to perform an asbestos abatement project at the Deschutes County Courthouse, a facility it owns at 1100 NW Bond St.

in Bend.

In addition, DEQ has issued a $1,200 penalty to Kirby Nagelhout Construction Co.

of Bend, the general contractor for the project, for allowing unlicensed persons with whom it subcontracted to perform the asbestos abatement project.Nagelhout has appealed the penalty and requested a hearing.

Deschutes County did not appeal its penalty.On March 1, 2005, while inspecting a remodeling project at the courthouse, DEQ staff observed approximately 25 square feet of asbestos- containing sheet vinyl flooring that had been ripped up from an old bathroom on the third floor.

DEQ later learned that Deschutes County employed Nagelhout as the general contractor for the project and that Nagelhout directed a flooring contractor ...

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... icCheshireOnline - Asbestos link to death icCheshireOnline Motors Jobs Cheshire Homes Dating Search The Web icCheshireOnline for Home page News Regional news Business news National news Messageboard Entertainment Dating Jobs Cheshire Homes Motors Chester City Crewe Alexandra Sport Golfers' Chronicle Play Bet and Win Online Shop Old Pals Happy Ads Money Business finder Classifieds Tourism Weather Our Newspapers Contact Us Bingo Regional news Asbestos link to death Mar 23 2006Ellesmere Port Pioneer A PENSIONER died from the cancer mesothemlioma after he was exposed to asbestos at work, an inquest was told last week.

Richard Allman, 84, of Hawthorne Road, Little Sutton, died on August 30 last year at the Countess of Chester hospital after being admitted with breathing difficulties six days earlier.

He had worked as a crane driver at Bowaters paper mills in Ellesmere Port from 1944 until 1980.

His wife Josephine explained Mr Allman would sometimes work alongside plumbers and electricians and could have been exposed to harmful asbestos fibres when helping to replace lagging on pipes.

A post mortem revealed Mr Allman's death had been caused by mesothemlioma and chief coroner for Cheshire Nicholas Rheinberg ruled he had died from the industrial disease.

He said: 'He had a known history working with asbestos in his workplace which led to the development of this terrible canc...