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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/9/12/192330/380> WR Grace Asbestos containing insulation was used at the World Trade Center (WTC). James Cintani stated that Grace Vermiculite did not contain asbestos. Unfortunately this was not true this material was 2-5 percent asbestos. 100,000 80 pound bags of this vermiculite was used in the WTC. In addition 9,150 pounds of MonoKote 3 was used at the WTC. Monokote 3 was about 20 percent asbestos. Therefore in total about 201,183 pounds of pure asbestos fiber from Grace was used in the WTC.
Indeed, "Asbestos Safety" and its political, economic, and social implications do get a bit more complicated.
As Patty Murray continued her effort on Asbestos safety after being attacked for her "treasonous" comments made to a group of school kids regarding OBL's social standing among Arabs, later to be debunked those who may have had some insight into WR Grace's policy and procedure would have been called to the witness stand, but.....as the wheels of fortuna would have it they died in a plane crash in N. Carolina in Jan. 2003.
More on the destination of the three W.R. Grace & Co. victims
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http://greenvilleonline.com/news/2003/01/08/2003010834140.htm> Crash ends promising lives in an instant
By Liv Osby
HEALTH WRITER
losby@greenvillenews.com <mailto:losby@greenvillenews.com>
Many were just starting their lives, like the two Clemson University graduate students, the Bob Jones University co-ed and the young father traveling with his adolescent daughter. Others, including the North Carolina computer salesman with two small children at home and three employees of W.R. Grace & Co., were just making a living when their US Airways plane flipped, crashed and burst into flames moments after takeoff Wednesday morning from Charlotte.
W.R. Grace & Co. veteran Richard Lyons was global health and safety manager at Grace Performance Chemicals in Cambridge, Mass. Lyons, 56, joined the company in 1969. Married with two children, he lived in Lynnfield, Mass.
Joseph Spiak, 46, also worked at the Cambridge site as general manager for specialty vermiculite (note: this includes the highly toxic, widely distributed brand of asbestos contaminated vermiculite marketed under the W.R. Grace brand name of Zonolite). A resident of Acton, Mass., he had been with Grace since 1981 and occasionally visited its Spartanburg facilities. He was married with two children.
Paul Stidham was a newcomer to the company, joining last July as director of environment health and safety for Grace's corporate headquarters in Columbia, Md. He and his wife, Dora, and their two young children made their home in Howard County, Va.
All three were on their way to a Grace mining plant in Enoree, S.C. "We are devastated and stunned by this tragic loss," said Grace CEO Paul Norris.