Asbestos poisoning reported at India shipyards

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14700862/

NEW DELHI - Almost one in every six workers dismantling old boats at India’s Alang shipyard suffers from asbestos poisoning, experts said in a report sure to fuel criticism of an industry long dogged by charges of unsafe working conditions.

The experts, appointed by India’s Supreme Court to look into conditions at Alang, also found a fatal accident rate six times that of the country’s notoriously unsafe mining industry.

The president of the Alang Ship Breaking Association, Raj Bansal, said he hadn’t seen the report, but dismissed its findings, reported in Wednesday’s edition of the Indian Express newspaper.

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asbestos the poison of our time!!!

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1. Poison of our time, sure.

If you don't count arsenic and methyl isocyanate.

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2. These shipbreaking yards are total deathtraps.

Horrible, poverty-driven hellholes where the poorest on the planet clean up the worst wreckage of the global economy. They break apart these ships with no protecive equipment. Often children are used.

But they are also strangely beautiful.



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