I worked in industrial settings as a laborer pre OSHA. My personal experience is steel mills which were filled with black smoke. I recall hopping over a stream, narrow though, of molten steel proceeding from the blast furnace. Another job i was scooping asbestos directly from a barrel without a face mask. I have calcified pleurotic plaques in my lungs today as a result. And that was at a division of a major corporation. Happily my odds of mesothelioma are not a done deal. Still low but far far higher than yours i imagine. To think though that that was what killed my grandfather. Later I worked a job whose work floor was a visibility compromised mix of smoke and dust. Fortunately by then I was not work floor and valuable enough to the company I could refuse to go down there for the worst of it. Whatever the logic of this case, OSHA is right up there in my pantheon of government functions.
I worked in industrial settings as a laborer pre OSHA. My personal experience is steel mills which were filled with black smoke. I recall hopping over a stream, narrow though, of molten steel proceeding from the blast furnace. Another job i was scooping asbestos directly from a barrel without a face mask. I have calcified pleurotic plaques in my lungs today as a result. And that was at a division of a major corporation. Happily my odds of mesothelioma are not a done deal. Still low but far far higher than yours i imagine. To think though that that was what killed my grandfather. Later I worked a job whose work floor was a visibility compromised mix of smoke and dust. Fortunately by then I was not work floor and valuable enough to the company I could refuse to go down there for the worst of it. Whatever the logic of this case, OSHA is right up there in my pantheon of government functions.