Asbestos - The Evil Dust

Watch this 1950-60s film that captures the UK relationship with this amazing natural mineral. Sadly, the multi million pound industry was too aware of the potential health hazards. It was used everywhere and now is the UKs largest industrial occupational killer. 4500 avoidable deaths per year due to one reason only, that they have been exposed to asbestos fibres. Please don't take the risk. STORM find the lethal menace on your premises, assess it, allowing you to manage it and inform those who may disturb it eg contractors. STORM asbestos surveys. HSE asbestos survey. STORM asbestos awareness training. Get in touch with STORM on 0845 862 0228 or contact [e-mail]

[@marianneashcroft4112]

This angers me my husband died of mesothelioma in September 2022 at the age of 61 he was a joiner and had worked on construction and ship yards .He suffered for 21 months with it and to watch some one you love suffer with severe pain ,coughing and watching them slowley fading away is not nice .no compensation will ever bring back my husband, l and his family are living the nightmare ever day. By him going to work to earn a living cost him his life like so many like him

[@gingerhiser7312]

Did he refuse to use his dust mask?

[@dreamer33ish]

So sorry for your loss marianne…your husband was so young,my heart breaks for you and hoping you are able to find some peace…my heartache of losing my husband is yet to come….he’d been an all round builder since leaving school,he loved his work and will leave behind many amazing projects… His love of creating will eventually kill him! How sad is that? X

[@shasmi93]

Life for 95% of humans. You’re born. You work hard your entire life. You die. Same fate for most of us.

[@88racex]

you think a dust mask would protect against this @@gingerhiser7312

[@marktravis793]

Sorry to your family. That's terrible.

[@johnwhite8535]

Some progress has been made since this documentary was produced. Canada no longer exports any asbestos and all the mines are permanently closed. Russia is the main producer now.

[@Failure_Is_An_Option]

Yup... and to nobody's surprise there was a past US president that attempted to relax Asbestos regulations via an EPA appointment. The Russian company even stamped his mug on their products. Uralasbest, look it up.

[@TheTibrin450]

City name was changed , but piles of sterile rocks are still a remain of the past in Asbestos Quebec . it's impressive how much mineral they dig .

[@davidbrewer7937]

Turner & Newel had an asbestos factory located next to the cement factory in my birth own of Rhoose, South Wales. Workers from the town worked in either the cement plant like my father or the asbestos plant. The plant closed down in the 1970s but as children we played near there including a large settlement pond where water laden with asbestos was allowed to seep into the water table below the asbestos sediment. The factory became a pallet factory, then a scrap yard & eventually the whole thing was burried & there is not a housing estate on top of the site....I kid you not. Thinking back to the years after Turner closed down, I knew NOBODY who had worked for Turner who was still alive...

[@AcornElectron]

David Brewer yeah, same is true worldwide, all because of money.

[@angc1456]

@@AcornElectron smartphones and bluetooth danger aswell in long term

[@jarrahdrum]

@@angc1456 I hear you, wifi is terrible, I feel it. (yes I do use it ) The country park that I like to walk to get as far as away as possible has now just had a wifi network installed because the lazy people that only drive there and then sit on their asses complained that they couldn't get a good signal.

[@dreamer33ish]

My darling husband has recently been diagnosed with cancer of the lung….mesothelioma…he s only 69 years old….😢 our life now is trying to be positive day by day,he and his father worked many years in building,he died of asbestosis 12 years ago… Governments should hold these firms responsible and accountable for these deaths….. Glad they eventually did…too late now for some… No good wasting precious time we both have left for misery and hatred….our time will be spent making new memories and hoping for as much more time God can give us!

[@shepardodonnell]

I'm so sorry to hear of your husband's diagnosis. Watching a loved one suffer from this horrible disease can be very hard on spouses, families and caregivers. I wish you and your husband continued strength.

[@dreamer33ish]

@@shepardodonnell thank you so very much for your kind words….every day is a battle but we both battle on!

[@ShowersRainwater]

Best of luck to you both. Look into the Optune Lua tumor treating fields device. It can be used with chemotherapy and may help extend survival time.

[@dantemariscal8679]

You can put a claim in with a legal firm about mesothilioma

[@angc1456]

Im so sorry for your loss. =( Do you think i can get asbestos id im being exposed 2 times?

[@mfbfreak]

That scene of the indian asbestos workers is so sad. Because the workers apparently know - trying to protect themselves with a woefully insufficient scarf...

[@margemiller5503]

I worked in the plastics industry 77, 78, 79 & 80. We used to dump large bags of Asbestos in many of the resins we used to produce. The air filter system that was used in the building, in order to clean out the filters in the production area, the workers were ordered out and the doors closed and the fans reversed. Whatever Asbestos or other fillers we used like Cabosil and the like were blown back into the work area. When the dust had settled we were sent back in to sweep up. The only safety wear we had was maybe a dust mask, if there were any on hand. So I wait.

[@Antiwoke77]

Hoping you never develop it! I’m 38 years old. And when I was between the ages of around 10-14 in the mid to late 90s, me and my brothers would climb on the garage in our back garden. Just playing and messing around and you did as a kid. Looking back at the way the roof looked and the texture, I am almost certain that the roof was asbestos. We cannot know for sure as my granparents whose house it was have since passed. The house was then sold in 2009 and the garage has since been demolished by the new owners. I didn’t even think about it being asbestos until long after the house was sold and I must have done some research on asbestos and then the penny dropped. The house was an old house so more than likely was asbestos roof. We used to climb up, rubbing ourselves on the edge of it as we were getting up and down. I can’t begin to imagine the amount of fibres I and my brothers may have inhaled during that time. If the timings are accurate as to when it rears its ugly head, I am right in the middle of that period. We are looking at around 28 years since potential asbestos exposure so I too, wait. I would say I’ve got until around the age of 45 before I can say we are probably safe.

[@SuV33358]

I lived in a 1926 house and there was some asbestos in the basement around pipes . I was just told not to mess with it . Leave it alone

[@gingerhiser7312]

@devonw4019 Nope. Removing it is what releeaes fibers. Just leave it alone.

[@trr5291]

My 1920 house has asbestos siding. No one will remove it. They say just paint it. It will not harm anyone until it's taken off.

[@hobomaninabox841]

@@trr5291asbestos contractors set up containments and go in and remove it. After they’re finished abating they’ll have an air tech come in and do an air test to see how many fibers are in the air. I currently work as an abatement supervisor and remove it most days of the week throughout Pennsylvania.

[@fueyo2229]

@@gingerhiser7312 You can remove it in a safe way but it's very expensive. My house has asbestos too, I'd like to remove it but it's too expensive.

[@robpeters5204]

Greed and corruption at its finest. Today still alive and well at the consumers health expense.

[@baseballworldwide9439]

Boost up!

[@nyki7fykxtjxyi]

They used to put asbestos in cigarette filters for a short time in the 50s before they pulled the plug on that genius idea😂

[@deedetres703]

i was 36 when poisoned by asbestos - tremolite in rod form is at the heart of the talc controversy - JNJ knew and even had experts tell them it would only be a small fraction of money to test the talc every month - they decided not to- my surgeries made me sterile and the radiation therapy has given me chronic back and hip pain - it is 2024 and women are still buying talc

[@SCORPION89199]

And this is why conspiracy people tell you not to trust your government or to be very cautious of those you do trust because they have worked in the pockets of big corporations since the 1800s what is specially with a lot of corruption in the early to mid 20th century, there's so many instances the radium girls those people knew that stuff was dangerous but they not only encourage people to use it but they said it was safe to paint your face and your lips with young women were dying of cancer less than 10 years sometimes only two or three years after they had painted the watch dials (for our soldiers in the trenches in world war I) there was the Love canal incident that started in the 1950s and really became a problem by the mid-1970s and early 1980s (just outside of Niagara falls) there was The pfoa toxic chemicals that had been dumped by the DuPont company in the Ohio River since the 1950s and no one knew they had been doing this until around 1988 or 89 when a local farmer discovered that his cows were dying from strange circumstances they were drinking the water that was full of this toxic forever chemical that was the after product waste of the Teflon material that kept pans non-stick, so be careful who you trust whether big corporation or the average politician because they have worked with their lawyers and other companies to keep these secrets to make the most money possible even if millions of people get very sick or die.

[@michaelsand2791]

Eye opening documentary

[@iivin4233]

And with that we learned never to use toxic materials except when well maintained in niche applications when absolutely necessary and definitely not in domestic applications and in every appliance and piece of packaging currently made. Now we use plastic.

[@MrElvis340]

Exactly

[@Passwort-ng4gs]

In Europe, for example, another scandal is immanent: the use of lead tetraethyl-added fuels was only completely banned at the beginning of 2000. This highly toxic substance can still be detected in the bodies of all people born before 2000. The number of people in whom this has caused cancer, infertility or other diseases has never really been fully researched.

[@mickymondo7463]

Yes but it was replaced with Benzene which is just as bad in its own way, if you worked in a chemical plant handling Benzene in solution you would have to wear a full suit and air supply, but any 16yr old can slop it around the forecourt. There are a huge number of chemicals that are supposedly safe, but will no doubt be found otherwise in years to come.

[@dottieland7061]

I lost my father in law to mesothelioma 2 yrs ago and are still fighting the government for compensation. They knew for yrs and yet they let people like him, my father and my husband breathe in that deadly dust. They all worked in the chemical industry. Two are still alive. But refused to get tested. We only found out about my father in law because he got COPD. It’s a horrible death.

[@martindobrev-u6j]

mine dad to😞 what age was your dad🙂‍↕️

[@dottieland7061]

@@martindobrev-u6j 83, my husband just found out what his service was worth I was so annoyed by ICI. They were nothing but meat!

[@rosewhite---]

friend died in 2002 aged 62 from asbestosis from living close to mill as a child.

[@coffeepot3123]

I feel so bad for people of the past, may they rest in peace.

[@nathanroberts355]

There was a mining town in Pilbara region and place called Wittenoom gorge mines and which mined the dangerous mineral blue asbestos mining town of Wittenoom from 1947 to 1966 and now is a abandoned ghost town now

[@robpeters5204]

It’s no wonder why we cannot trust people in government.

[@donnavorce8856]

Wealth and power want to stay in wealth and power at any cost to us plain folk.

[@hanric2000]

But you can trust companies???

[@nyki7fykxtjxyi]

Asbestos is pretty horid ,but look up the 1979 Woolworth fire the use of flammable materials in furniture was found to be problematic

[@shigbitts]

I work in homes that burn down, most of them contain Asbestos and it doesn't stop the house from burning down and falling apart

[@SCORPION89199]

I thought by 1979 most people were stopping the use of asbestos but I found out a few years ago that Australia not the United States was still using asbestos in their feelings of houses and buildings up until around 1990 so when people in the United States had known it was dangerous for over a decade I had been outlawed Australia was still using it until the very early 1990s.

[@TK-rr1gj]

Simply diabolical ! The greed of those factory owners is just disgusting, knowing your product was killing people and yet pretending is was not dangerous to keep profits at the cost of their employees and employees’ families lives..

[@starrystarrynight6281]

Greed is incredibly insidious.

[@honeymonster5589]

So true

[@MattsMadnessOfficial]

@1:26 I wish we still had good gas like that , look at how nice that lights off, the stuff you get nowadays won't do that

[@Stevesbe]

They are just doing it in different ways today

[@trr5291]

My 104 year old house has asbestos siding. No one wants to remove it. The only option is paint. They did remove all the asbestos from the interior.

[@russell7852]

Its expensive as hell to remove

[@trr5291]

I can't find anyone to remove it either way. Luckily the stuff does last forever. It's still in good condition. Just paint it and move on. It's all you can do. ​The siding itself isn't dangerous. What is behind it is.

[@eternallygratefulholistic2422]

My ex hired inmates to remove the roof on my office 20 hrs ago. That asbestos dust fell inside my office daily for a decade before I became disabled from it being removed half ass. I have symptoms now of painful lungs when I breath. I don't even think I want to know if I have it. That building was over a hundred yrs old. The ceilings were boards with gaps..it's probably still.falling down inside for whoever ow s it now. He's an ex husband now

[@walden420]

I would recommend leaving it on and painting it. As long as it is not deteriorating it will not pose a health risk. Removing it will unleash enormous quantities of asbestos dust into the air and should only be done by professional asbestos abatement companies.

[@Failure_Is_An_Option]

@@trr5291 Oh you can find companies to remove it, no problem. You just don't want to pay for it. Siding is very low risk compared to other products.

[@zagnit]

If it wasn’t for the fact that we cant breathe it or ingest it, it would be awesome stuff…….

[@TimGrad]

In Russia, asbestos is still being mined en masse in opencast mining

[@233kosta]

The largest third world country by land area...

[@sungazer454]

In a City called Asbest😂

[@TimGrad]

@@sungazer454 yes 🤣

[@nathanroberts355]

In Pilbara region of the town of Wittenoom gorge mines did blue asbestos mining town of Wittenoom gorge mines and my mate William munro died of metheleoma asbestos disease and people got diagnosed of blue asbestos mining town of Wittenoom

[@donnavorce8856]

Heavy industry wants profit and any cost. Mining industry Tobacco industry Asbestos industry War industry Oil industry Nuclear industry Sugar industry Farm chemical industry Eventually people are shown the hazards and stop using the products.

[@CW-wm7up]

Good stuff

[@craigywaigy4703]

Now here's the kicker - Glass fibre is NO DIFFERENT to Asbestos, with regards to the effects upon the human body ie. NOT being able to expel or metabolise it. The cancer causing effects ARE identical(a sharp long and strong foreign body lodged in human tissue causes scaring, inflimation and cancer of the lungs, airways and throat!! Currently helping to care for my dying(Asbestosis/lung cancer) FIL(Plater - Asbestos exposure from ship yards & hydro plant refitting), and had my cousin(joiner - glass wool fibre insulation) have his voice box and gullet removed in his late 40's due to cancer of the throat. Takes about 30yrs from exposure to manifest as cancerous.... Keep safe folks! ❤

[@woodhook]

Brake shoes by the billions filled the air with particles each time the brakes were applied. Why did this not impact life?

[@donnavorce8856]

It did and it does. Roadways and roadsides harbor all sorts of nasty chemicals. Forever chemicals - asbestos, lead, oil, gasoline, etc etc.

[@honeymonster5589]

Yes when I was a apprentice I remember the. a mark on the brake shoe boxes ,I would clean drums and shoes with soapy water,and latterly the company got a proper brake shoe washer system

[@SCORPION89199]

​@@donnavorce8856I don't think that asbestos is a forever chemical yes if you disturb it in a house or on car brakes but most people aren't putting asbestos brakes on modern cars and most people buying an old junker or a classic car are going to take off the old asbestos brakes and put on non asbestos brakes.

[@joshjones3408]

They aren't lying about how long cement shingles last my house was bulit in 1955 an there still on the outside doing there thing......my neighbor got the big idea that no one was going to tell him what to do .....he took his off his house an stacked up by the road .....yea the next day it looked like a super found site......alot of big people where not happy with him....

[@orange1666]

White asbestos has no unusual risk - that’s roofing asbestos , the fibres are very different to those found in the type used for insulation which of course is high risk , white asbestos today and it’s removal is a money making racket - there is no evidence of anybody getting health issues from white asbestos - the government have a 20+ page health and safety document on the subject that they tried to hide ! White asbestos is still used in much of the world without issue , the red and blue variants are a very different issue and should be banned . If you consider most farms and so many old buildings and factories are covered with delaminating asbestos we should all be panicking if it’s a problem and why are the government not demanding it’s removal 🤔

[@scottmartin455]

12:05 If only she knew...

[@scottm5425]

Life of workers is cheap

[@Aranimda]

01:48 Don't.

[@meztizo_americano86]

I thought cocaine was the evil dust

[@tezinho81]

2:02 what on earth is saruman doing here

[@peregrinemccauley5010]

Capitalism is ruthless and knows no remorse .

[@thomasnew8606]

Lead paint was also very bad news...And used all at the same time.

[@MetrakitProRaceII]

I love to work with asbestos plates, grinding them with an anglegrinder

[@donnavorce8856]

Choice is a beautiful thing. You go for it. With a vengeance.

[@1antti]

Ancient Rome citizens knew it was deadly.

[@TomDavidMcCauley]

There’s no way this video is from the 1950s or 60s. Maybe the 90s or early 00s

[@donnavorce8856]

Ya think?

[@FanfictionWoes]

😂😂😂 we know

[@meztizo_americano86]

My grandma was around asbestos for years and she died at 93

[@nyki7fykxtjxyi]

Some people are life long smokers and live to 100

[@martindobrev-u6j]

u lie in all post

[@orange1666]

Depends which type of asbestos - not all asbestos is dangerous ! The white stuff is generally safe because it’s fibres are acid soluble and that’s even proven in a government health and safety paper .

[@233kosta]

The past was the worst 😒

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Nothing is evil, asbestos exposure however was evil

[@forza223bowe5]

Would a house built in 1995 contain asbestos ?

[@danr1920]

No, not in U.S. or the E.U. Russia or India, yes, even today.

[@robertgarcia7377]

No only house built from 1937-1978 contain asbestos.

[@robertgarcia7377]

In 1978 US prohibited asbestos in construction

[@tomorsodnompil8008]

There may still be modern materials that have been slightly contaminated with small amount of asbestos. So dont break anything until you get it tested, best to way to keep a peace of mind

[@diligentcircle]

@@robertgarcia7377 This isn't true. Asbestos is 100% legal in the U.S. The only restriction is that asbestos can't be adopted for applications that it hadn't already been used to when that particular regulation was passed, which I believe was some time around 1980, and I think spray-on asbestos insulation specifically is banned. You're still not likely to see asbestos in buildings from the 1990s (most asbestos in use today in the U.S. is actually for chemical plants), but that's only because it's no longer profitable to sell asbestos products in the U.S.

[@JB-or9yw]

I wonder how much money Mrs. Adams got for filming.

[@AlfredTortelloni]

Mrs. Adams doesn't speak very well for the camera

[@walden420]

Most people during that era were awkward in front of a TV or movie camera. It was quite rare to be on camera back then unlike today where we constantly take videos of everybody/everything.

[@abelcavazos2208]

😢

[@sarahcooper6507]

Canada exports asbestos to india

[@RandyBoBandy.]

Journalist wears HazMat suit and respirator in 130 degree heat for dramatic effect. Fat guy in shorts and flip flops lives in exact area for 30 years and journalists wonders if he can take mask off for two minutes. I see Australian TV is as stupid as American TV.

[@ronaldtartaglia4459]

Plenty of people had contact with asbestos and are fine

[@srfurley]

As a small child in the very early '60s I was warned about asbestos by my father, not to scratch the iron stand on the ironing board, not to touch the lining of the fuse boxes etc. yes, even at that age I was expected to re-wire a fuse if it blew. There was also asbestos in other places, but I can't remember all of them now. He had reason to know about it, he worked as an architect for a paper company and had to work in mills containing it. He suffered no ill effects from his exposure to it, but died at a relatively early age from something quite unrelated; whether the asbestos would have got him if he had lived longer we will never know. Until a few years ago I worked as an I.T. technician in a college. I quite often had to request a check on the asbestos register if doing any work such as lifting a ceiling panel to access cables. It's astonishing the range of products and materials which contained asbestos, even though much had already been removed over the years.

[@mray8519]

Yo Fucknugget what’s the point?

[@mfbfreak]

Plenty of people have driven a car when stoned or drunk and are fine ;) ;) ;)

[@2003ranp]

This reminds me of how much the government and pharmaceutical companies covered up all the covid bs! Be sure to get all of them boosters! 😅

[@yankeedoodle1963]

Your conflated belief in COVID-19 misinformation with the established dangers of exposure to asbestos isn’t worthy of a moment’s consideration. Mindless, idiotic nonsense.

[@Failure_Is_An_Option]

Reported.

[@gilzor9376]

@27:38 "Looking back in light of present knowledge, it is impossible to feel that opportunities for discovery and prevention of asbestos disease were badly missed." Thomas Legge 1934 ex. Chief Medical Inspector of Factories. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What the heck!! "Present Knowledge"?!! . . .this statement being made 90 years ago! As, to this day, people are still dying from Mesothelioma! GREED by those holding POWER and WEALTH leads to death for the common man . . . . PATHETIC!