Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Asbestos Mill

I came across a picture of the old asbestos mill while I was at work today.  They used to mine the stuff and send it through there.  Seems pretty non-descript for how dangerous it is.


Yes, people, that is where they produced the stuff that causes all that great cancer.  Why did I come across this?  I had a research request concerning one of the high schools around here.  In 1990, two of them had to combine because one shut down for the year for asbestos abatement.  A whole year!

2 comments:

  1. Looks so plain and nonthreatening. I wonder what substances we'll find out in the future are messing us up, like corn syrup or something.

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  2. The concept of asbestos is an odd one for me, it honestly is. It's just so weird that people used it like everything else then one day realised it's a silent killer. Horrible stuff, it's a nightmare of mine to one day realise there's asbestos in my house.

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