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Date: | Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:25:49 -0700 (PDT) |
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Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Mustard Bomb Site Cleanup Sickened Workers |
Memphis (TN) Commercial Appeal - Page B1 - Saturday - October 14, 2000 Mustard Bomb Site Cleanup Sickened Workers by Tom Charlier, The Commercial Appeal Officials overseeing the removal of buried chemical warfare bombs at the old Defense Depot Memphis said Friday the public should have been notified of an incident last month in which three project workers were taken to a hospital. The workers had been digging up soil surrounding buried bomb casings that had contained German-made World War II-era mustard gas when they complained of headaches, nausea and sinus irritation on Sept. 15. The symptoms struck while the workers were inside a tightly sealed vapor-containment structure enclosing one of the excavation sites on the 640-acre base in South Memphis. The employees work for UXB International, a Virginia-based contractor hired by the Corps of Engineers. They were taken to the Regional Medical Center at Memphis, where the examinations and followup visits showed no evidence of exposure to chemical-weapons materiels, authorities say. The workers had been wearing protective masks with vapor filters. Air monitoring and soil testing at the excavation site revealed no sign of chemical-warfare agents. But further investigations turned up low levels of thioxane and dithiane, which are created by the breakdown of sulfur mustard. Although the incident apparently did not significantly harm the workers or endanger the public, it should have been relayed to the public and the agency in charge of the excavation, officials said Friday. Continued.... [If you would like a copy of the full text of this article you can go to the Memphis Commercial Appeal Archives, http://www.gomemphis.com/archives/index.shtml. Please note that if you want to view, download or print the full text it costs $1.95 per story.] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can find archived listserve messages on the CPEO website at http://www.cpeo.org/lists/index.html. If this email has been forwarded to you and you'd like to subscribe, please send a message to: cpeo-military-subscribe@igc.topica.com ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics | |
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