Saturday, January 22, 2011

Unearthed toxin at Fort Wainwright likely injured workers

Unearthed toxin at Fort Wainwright likely injured workers
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/dispatches/news/8404-unearthed-toxin-at-fort-wainwright-likely-injured-workers

"In summer 2006, as private construction workers bulldozed and excavated on a project at Fort Wainwright -- a U.S. Army base in Fairbanks, Alaska -- they unearthed something that more than four years later continues to haunt some of them. While preparing to build a new hangar and parking lot at a site where a previous hangar had burned down, a foul smell overtook the crew after a tractor operator dug through a layer of clay. Workers immediately became ill, four of whom remain disabled to this day, according to the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility"

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