I once was fearful of sounding like a broken record. But, nearly 20 years of industrial hygiene consulting and teaching environmental health and safety suggest the hazards, regulations and ubiquity of materials containing asbestos fibers beseech repeating.
Death is an unpleasant inevitability. It is the ticket price every human pays for the privilege of riding the rollercoaster of life. This ride ends for approximately 2.5 million Americans each year. There is a seemingly endless list of causes of death. Heart disease kills about 600,000 of us annually. Around 123,000 meet their demise from accidents. Flu and pneumonia ends fun for nearly 54,000 Americans.