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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Monday, July 05, 2004 ::
Plaintiff in asbestos suit isn't here to see award upheld By Mary McLachlin, Palm Beach Post
The dust looked like a blizzard, Dennis Kavanaugh said, and he looked like a snowman, covered by it, breathing it in, spitting it out.
That was 30 years ago, when he worked as a carpenter alongside men putting up sheets of wallboard, sealing the seams with a plaster-like compound, then sanding it for smoothness. They didn't know the clouds of dust that engulfed them were seeded with invisible fibers of asbestos that would become embedded in their bodies and eventually kill many of them.
Dennis and Inge Kavanaugh met and married while he was in the Army in Germany, then came to West Palm Beach in 1969. He was a member of Carpenters Local 819, supporting his wife and two sons by working construction.
'Who would think that the profession you choose could cause you to die?' Inge Kavanaugh wonders now.------------------------------------------- posted 6:13 AM :: reference link ::
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