We paid an additional $600 to install a proper flue pipe. When we bought the home, two years ago, our home inspector did not report this problem. If he had, we could have requested repair by the ...

SCOTS are facing a growing risk from asbestos in water pipes with more than a quarter of pipes in some areas containing the cancer-causing fibres. There are fears that the more than half of the ...

A $1.2 million project was approved Wednesday to replace a nearly mile-long stretch of waterline in North Huntingdon, including a 75-year-old section of cement pipe that is infused with asbestos.

7,607: The number of notifications to MIOSHA about asbestos abatement projects in fiscal 2015. That’s double the 3,623 in fiscal 2010. 223: The number of licensed asbestos contractors in ...

March 19 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Chicago has dismissed a lawsuit by plastic pipe maker JM Eagle against a U.S. law firm that filed hundreds of asbestos personal injury cases against it.

Asbestos can be found in: pipe lagging, insulation board, asbestos cement products such as profiled roof sheets and wall panels, floor coverings and asbestos sprayed coatings. ACMs such as gaskets and ...

Mechanics at a U-Haul facility in Spokane, Wash. were unknowingly exposed to hazardous asbestos while working on rental trucks, as deteriorating vinyl flooring in the building released the toxic ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — City workers were photographed handling asbestos pipes without respirators at least four times, documents uncovered by Team 10 reveal. The photos, obtained through a public ...

Arthur Frank, MD, PhD, a professor emeritus and clinical professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in a Dec. 17 KGTV-TV (ABC-San Diego) segment about whether tap water that’s ...

Beneath the streets of America’s Finest City, are nearly 2,000 miles of asbestos concrete pipes carrying drinking water to thousands of homes. “That is shocking and that blows my mind,” said ...

The frequent pipe bursts have a negative impact on water supply. Municipal management this week responded to an enquiry on the matter saying that asbestos pipes in some areas were replaced last ...