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:: Saturday, April 24, 2004 ::
One of first hired, one of last to leave By TOM CHARD, Press Herald, ME
Editor's Note: This week, we recall the experiences of workers at the South Portland shipyards who built Liberty cargo ships for the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II.
Q: Was it dangerous work?
A: It could be, but not so much for me. It was way before OSHA, so there weren't a lot of safety precautions. The only safety precaution that I was told to take was to wear steel-toe shoes so that if a piece of steel fell on my feet, it wouldn't cut my toes off. Back then, there were no hardhats or earplugs. A lot of my friends at the shipyard died years later from asbestos inhalation. The years working there with all the noise affected my hearing later on.------------------------------------------- posted 7:46 AM :: reference link ::
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