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Boilermaker's Ear

"boilermaker's ear," an old phrase used to describe worker impairment of hearing that follows long exposure to noise. For a 1954 Time Magazine articl...

Construction Workers Recall Working Around Asbestos

This is clipped from a 1978 film which provided an explanation of asbestos, the dangers it poses to our health, and the importance of precautionary me...

Application of Built Up Asbestos Roofing

Until the 1980s in the US, asbestos was a popular material in industrial, commercial and construction applications. Asbestos typically found its way i...

Asbestos in building construction

This was clipped from the 1959 film, Asbestos a matter of time, by the US Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior. For more information about a...

Uses of Asbestos: Examples from the 50s and 60s

Clips showing uses of asbestos products in the 1950s and 1960s taken from government and industrial films. The films are available from the Internet...

Lead Exposure at the Bunker Hill Mine and Smelter

This is clipped from the 1979 film, Working for Your Life (58 minutes, Labor Occupational Health Program Films) which explores the health and safety c...

Decontamination after an Atomic Blast

This clip from the US Government's 1955 film, Operation Teapot Atom Test, show troops being decontaminated after exposure to the blast and resulting r...

Mother describes loss of son in crane incident

In a 3-min. video, Diane Lillicrap explains how her son Steven, 21, was killed by a crane on a construction site in 2009. She discusses the crane stan...

Oregon OSHA Films Trench Collapse

Oregon OSHA worker approaches a work site with unsafe trench work occurring. While he's telling the workers what the problem is, the trench begins col...

Death in the Sierra

One-min. video from the Sacramento Bee: Salvador Cardenas talks about his friend Manuel Murillo, who died after being shot in the chest with a nail gu...