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...past few weeks, employees say, dust from construction crews drilling concrete, brick, and stone has filled...
Karen L. O'Brien, the Widener employees' representative to the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), said the silica dust has infiltrated several Widener offices...
...Silica dust, though classified a human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, is considered less dangerous than asbestos, so its management is not governed by strict regulations...
Jeff J. Cushman '69-'72, project manager for the Widener stacks renovations, confirmed that recent drilling may have released silica dust into the air, but said that air sampling results had confirmed these levels were not dangerous...
...response to union complaints, a team from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) came to Widener yesterday to take another set of air samples from several offices that had been exposed to silica dust...