But during the final phase of its construction on 8 June 2011, Podmore fell through the fragile asbestos cement roof sheets, landing on the concrete floor more than six metres below. He later died ...

This open-pit mine, measuring 1,140 ft (350 m) deep and more than two sq miles (six sq km) in size, along with other mines, are said to have made Canada the largest exporter of asbestos back in ...

Asbestos was present in the roof of a farm building in Grenagh, Co Cork which was demolished without permission, Cork County Council has confirmed. The council said it was alerted to the ...

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 ...

Corporate defendants in asbestos lawsuits are seeking to stop records of past compensation payments from being deleted after bankruptcy courts authorized broad probes in recent years into ...

A barn with an asbestos roof is burning in Devon this morning, having broken out more than 12 hours ago. The building in Chudleigh caught fire at around 4pm on Sunday, March 30, and, according to ...

Whether removing Monokote — a substance that in previous forms has been linked to cancer-causing asbestos fibers — is fast and economical in the proposed demolition of two of the RenCen's four ...

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 ...

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 ...

But there were a number of cases of lawsuits starting in the early ’80s, and it was starting to really catch on as a legal issue, like, you know, asbestos or something. Dan Rather (1984 ...

In March the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was banning ongoing uses of asbestos. People might have thought, Wait—what? Wasn’t it already banned? After all, many ...