An old power plant near contaminated with asbestos

Source: Madrid / Geoscopio.
The Condor Environmental Group has lodged a complaint with the Court of Almería, gross negligence and damage to public health, against the Company Sevillana de Electricidad, the state which is the Power Plant of the Zapillo, in Almeria, which is emitting to the environment pollution of asbestos.
The most common serious diseases related to asbestos are asbestosis (bronchopulmonary disorders), primary lung cancer and mesothelioma (malignant tumor).

The Thermal Power Company in the area of Seville The Zapillo, is in ruins and have been abandoned, which is causing some of its facilities and particularly of asbestos thermal insulation are breaking down and by wind and rain are scattered all around, highly populated areas like New Almería, El Zapillo, Five hundred homes, Cortijo Grande, etc..
The complaints of the ecological group based Condor legally R. D. 363/95 including asbestos in the harmonized list contained in Annex 1 and classified as toxic and carcinogenic of category 1 (a category which included substances known to be carcinogenic to humans. Is sufficient evidence to establish the existence of a cause / effect relationship between human exposure to a substance and the development of cancer)? And the R. D. 952/97 states that the asbestos waste is classified as hazardous waste.
Condor Environmentalists are also based on the prestigious organization ACGIH (American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists), U.S., points to asbestos as a confirmed carcinogen for humans.
Condor also report the case to the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office also has reported administratively to the various authorities with responsibilities in this matter: Prefectures (Central Government), Government Office (Andalusian Government), City of Almeria Labour Inspectorate and Ministry of Environment, Health, Employment and Technological Development.
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By José María Fernández-Rúa, a team of twelve researchers from four U.S. universities have managed to identify the molecular mechanism by which asbestos causes cancer. This finding, published in “Proceedings”, organ of the Academy of Sciences of the United States, opens the way to achieve methods of treatment for malignant mesothelioma (cancer of the pleura), one of the main caused by asbestos.
Michael Carbone of Loyola University in Chicago has found that asbestos triggers the inflammatory protein tumor necrosis factor alpha, which causes cell damage. Asbestos has been used in many countries, including Spain, in a variety of manufactures, such as building materials, clutches and brakes for automobiles, packaging, textiles and carpeting, to its ban earlier this century.
This research undoubtedly important to identify potential targets in the future acting drugs, it also opens the door to confirm that asbestos is the origin of other carcinomas, including stomach, colon and larynx. On this last cancer, the U.S. Senate a few weeks ago concluded that asbestos gives rise to its appearance, after the adoption of a comprehensive report by the National Institutes of Health at the request of a large group of workers with this disease that for years, were working with materials containing asbestos. The Senate will probably approve before the end of the year a compensation fund for injuries caused by this mineral, amounting to $ 140,000. Asbestos mainly affects the lungs and pleura, a membrane that surrounds these bodies. Thus, breathing high levels of asbestos fibers can cause long lesions that resemble scars in the lung.
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CC OO reporting five deaths from work with asbestos and investigates 12 cases of cancer

Three judgments condemn Izar Gijón Naval and deaths resulting from carcinogenic material, and two, to Arcelor and disability reports Tenneco by

Five sentences, one firm, have condemned Izar Gijón, Naval Gijón, Aceralia, and Tenneco Automotive Reymosa by as many cancers in their factories Gijón by exposure to carcinogens. Three naval workers have died from exposure to asbestos. The other two cases are incapable of inhaling asbestos, nickel and chromium. CC OO complaint Asturias is an autonomous community where more deaths are caused by occupational diseases. In 2004 there were 546 deaths. The union is investigating a dozen other cancers in various companies.

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The CCOO union released statements yesterday condemning five public sector companies of the metal in Gijón by workers’ deaths or disabilities caused by exposure to carcinogens in the respective factories, which in four of these cases was asbestos.

One of these judgments and is firm, after the Supreme Court has dismissed an action that Izar Gijón filed against the sentence which condemned him to pay compensation of 100,000 euros to the family of José María Aguado worker, worker and carpenter subcontractors naval Izar , who died of pleural mesothelioma worker exposure to asbestos. The company has been convicted of moral damages to the worker for the suffering of illness and death.

The other four statements are not yet final. Izar Gijón has also been convicted in 2006 in first instance by the death of another worker (assistant carpenter, boilermaker and welder) for a lung cancer caused by contact with asbestos.

Another sentence has been issued against Naval Gijón by the death of a boilermaker and welder by exposure to asbestos suffered a pulmonary neoplasm.

The contract Reymosa and Aceralia (as a company principal) were sentenced last week with a surcharge on the benefits to a worker who has been granted an absolute incapacity asbestosis (a chronic lung disease) caused by asbestos. The affected performing maintain on BFs in Gijón, where the joints of the sinter and steam pipes of asbestos cord.

It has also been condemned by Tenneco Automotive and permanent incapacity of a worker who suffered a vacum squamous cell carcinoma of exposure to chromium, nickel and other chemicals in the factory Gijon, producing nasopharyngeal cancers. The worker is treating sequelae were followed to remove the cancer.
The common denominator in all these cases is the lack of preventive measures in their respective companies. In the case of José María Aguado, this work is dedicated to cover the walls of the vessels, which used asbestos board had to cut into spaces too small, without an aspiration of asbestos dust, nor was he provided the worker specific masks or clothing. The naval carpenter died in 2001. The sentence for the death of another worker of Izar said how it used to cover the asbestos cord doors by cutting knife, with no protective equipment until 2000. The tinker of Naval Gijón died more than 20 years was exposed to asbestos, without having undergone any specific medical examination.
Why all these cases have been detected in Gijon? Irene Saavedra, occupational health technician CCOO de Asturias, explains that there are two reasons. On the one hand, the location of shipbuilding industry in Gijón, a sector in which there were high exposures to asbestos until the use of this substance was banned in Spain in 2002 (in Sweden in 1976 and was banned in the rest of Europe in 1997 ) “because the company did everything possible to delay the ban. In addition, more cases are detected in Gijon also explained in the union for “action CCOO union is very active in this respect in Arcelor and shipbuilding.” It was the union workers who sent in several of the cases reviewed, the National Institute of Silicosis. Many more workers die in Asturias without knowing who suffer an occupational disease.

In fact, says CC OO deaths leads Asturias in Spain by carcinogenic substances at work. The union workers stood at 546 deaths in the Asturias in 2004 by occupational diseases, a figure well above the official ones.

Saavedra stressed that “the sectors in Asturias with increased presence of chemicals that are carcinogens, mutagens and hormone-disrupting are the industry, the construction industry, blast furnaces, pharmaceutical, education, wood, plastics , cleaning and automotive workshops.

Asturias is close to Madrid, Catalonia, Andalusia and Valencia Euskadi one of the regions with the highest mortality rate from pleural cancer and lung cancer. From CC OO requires’ response to this epidemic are suffering thousands of workers will Asturian dying from this cause.

Besides the five sentences for cancer in factories Gijón, CC OO twelve other cases now under investigation in Asturias: Arcelor, Izar, Duro Felguera and Renfe. Of these, six workers are now dead and five others are sick.

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Exposure to asbestos is the major cause of mesothelioma and asbestosis, increases the risk of lung cancer and can cause non-malignant pleural diseases.

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The Basque Institute for Occupational Safety and Health confirmed that a worker’s illness is related to the mineral

Angel Guzman .- C. R. M., an electrician who worked at the headquarters of BBVA Bilbao from 1968 to 2002, suffers from cancer of the pleura. The CCOO union thinks that the disease is professional, since it is based on contact with asbestos in their workplace. Following the withdrawal of the union and the confirmation of the Basque Institute for Occupational Safety and Health that this cancer may be due to contact with dangerous material (very common in buildings of that period), the Labour Inspectorate of Biscay has forced the bank to chairman Francisco Gonzalez to deliver documentation of occupational risk assessments from 1995 to 2000 and all the information you have about a history of asbestos-related diseases of other workers in the group.

The Basque Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has ordered the BBVA who performs a comprehensive monitoring on the health of workers in the workplace (the largest group that has the Bilbao) because of the finding of the presence of asbestos in that building.

Jesus Uzkudun responsible for Occupational Health CCOO Euskadi, raised the complaint with the Basque Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and to the Labour Inspectorate of Biscay to clarify the origin of the cancer professional electrician. But most alarming is that it rains in the wet. Because the Labour Inspectorate, which investigates the complaint for alleged occupational disease CCOO by exposure to asbestos from the electrician who worked in that building no less than 34 years, acknowledged in a report issued in March 2006, following a complaint from a steward in the subcontract ELA Giro (one in charge of maintenance), the presence of asbestos at the headquarters of Gran Via Building, of course, that has protection planning as an unusual building.

In the same report claimed that BBVA asbestos removal work began building the company through Conten Cespa SA. But Angel Carcoba, an expert on asbestos CCOO, nationalist newspaper Gara said that the process of removal in the headquarters of BBVA Bilbao “was held with employees and customers inside” and that the level of asbestos fibers into the environment “was as permitted above.

The asbestos cancer patients, a silent epidemic

Eskoriatza DV. The use of asbestos is a subject of concern and therefore has been arranged for Thursday October 30 to 19 hours in an audiovisual Ibarraundi with testimony from one of those affected by asbestos. To report and see the existence of affected people in the area, will clarify many questions are needed Jesus Uzkudun responsible for Occupational Health and Environment CCOO Euskadi, experienced and dynamic movement, talk of the subject. Will try to answer questions like: Where is asbestos used? Where are the sick? Or how can we tackle the epidemic?

After the misuse of asbestos throughout industry and construction during the years of the 1960s, 70 or 80 without any control or prevention measure, begin to appear in patients with pleural plaques, mesothelioma or cancer of the pleura, lung, larynx in people about to retire or among those already retired, in most cases without being informed of the origin of the disease.

Possibility to avoid
The European Commission itself speaks of an Epidemic of 500,000 deaths in the coming years, an amount 10 times higher than in accidents.

As indicated by the event organizers’ premature deaths are possible to avoid. The specified health monitoring and professional recognition of these occupational diseases and compensation for, is key to advancing the prevention against the many carcinogenic substances used in the workplace and to achieve early detection of disease, to prolong their hope life. “

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