[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Glenn Research Center (OH) cancer

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

NASA Glenn union wants answers on workers' cancer rate


Grant Segall
Cleveland Plain Dealer (OH)
April 7, 2008

A union at NASA Glenn Research Center is worried about the number of 
workers who have been diagnosed with cancer, despite studies saying the 
rates are within normal range.

Leaders of the Lewis Engineers and Scientists Association are asking 
several members of Congress to investigate the incidence of cancer.

The disease has been diagnosed during the past three or four years in 
about 40 of the 100 workers on the Developmental Engineering Building's 
third floor, said Dennis Pehotsky, a spokesman for the association.

The union worries about possible mold and asbestos from a ceiling hole, 
a dirty filter and other problems at the complex.

But the cancer rates at NASA Glenn are within the normal range, 
according to reports unveiled to workers March 26 from the Ohio 
Department of Health and the National Institute for Occupational Safety 
and Health.

...

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