[CPEO-MEF] Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (WA) asbestos

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Asbestos Settlement a Little Late for Some

Many of the beneficiaries of a $5.1 billion payout were exposed while 
working at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

By Julie McCormick
Kitsap Sun (WA)
September 22, 2006

Burton Shepherd is living under a looming death sentence.

From the time he was in the Navy during the Korean War through much of 
his early civilian career at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, he breathed in 
enough asbestos to give him malignant mesothelioma.

The always-fatal cancer of the chest wall typically kills its victims 
within six to 18 months of diagnosis. Shepherd, 76, was diagnosed last 
November.

This week, he was one of about 2,000 Washington residents to benefit 
from a landmark $5.1 billion settlement reached with asbestos 
manufacturer Owens Corning.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kitsapsun.com/bsun/local/article/0,2403,BSUN_19088_5012969,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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