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John Callahan and Asbestos (Cont.)
The owner of the building hired Callahan to remove asbestos-containing material from a building in March 2004. Callahan hired three homeless men to do the work, knowing the men were not certified or properly trained to remove asbestos. Callahan paid each man $10 per hour for over three days of work.
Callahan did not provide the homeless men with adequate protective gear and instructed them to cut the asbestos-containing material with knives and hack saws without first wetting it, which is required by federal law to safely remove asbestos. By not wetting the materials first, the men created harmful asbestos dust which could be inhaled into their lungs. As part of the investigation, the EPA's forensic laboratory in Denver, Colo., conducted sampling and analysis of the materials and confirmed the presence of asbestos.
Courtesy of the EPA
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