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Well back in the 80s I assisted a retired Engineer repack fire brick in the combustion chambers/fire box and the front and rear tube sheets on some fire tube boilers. The guy would do maintenance when the Boilers were down for summer break at schools.He worked for Standard Oil and BP at refinneries doing all sorts of this work. He would mix this batter much like a baker mixes dough - bags of it with asbestos in them.Back then they didn't use self contained breathing apparatus or even masks.

I had heard AL lived to 83 and he spent a lifetime in and around these areas of work.However many types of asbestos have hook/shank like fibers that did embedd in skin or organs - much like a fish hook and then the problems begin. No way to really remove them either. As long as it was wrapped/packed right containment was OK but had to be routinely maintained. Not for personal safety as they really didn't know at the time but smooth operation of the equipment. Fiberglass was a problem but is relatively straight fibers so could be coughed or brushed out. I guess problems were predicated on work environment, type of asbestos,the individual and luck

My dad work as an electrician from 1956 to 1969.  Worked a lot of job in abestos.  Not one of the lucky ones, died of complication due to abestosis at the age of 73.  So Lived a relatively long life, but suffered quite a bit at the end. 

That said, it is a shame they have pretty much banned the use of Abestos because it does have usefulness that is hard to replace.

On this day, December 29, 178 years ago in 1845, Texas allowed the United States to join it. 

apparently, not in 1924

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