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EAST LIVERPOOL — “Three employees of Heritage-WTI taken to a local hospital Tuesday afternoon have been released and will be back on the job soon, according to a company spokesman.
The three employees became faint while working with a solid hazardous waste and were taken by company safety personnel to East Liverpool City Hospital, where they remained overnight for observation,
None of the three was taken by helicopter to another facility as has been rumored, public relations specialist Raymond Wayne clarified, also saying that reports by other news media of four employees being involved were inaccurate.
…When they became ill, the employees were wearing personal protective equipment that included respiratory protection while working with the material which may have contained aniline, a chemical used in a variety of ways, including blue jean dye, polyurethane and medications.”
— Jo Ann Bobby-Gilbert, East Liverpool Review
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EAST LIVERPOOL — “An Ohio scientist is asking for help from families in East Liverpool and its surrounding areas for a pilot study that will determine health effects from manganese-emitting companies along the Ohio River.
Dr. Erin Haynes, an Environmental Health Scientist at the University of Cincinnati is fostering a partnership with the East Liverpool Health Board.
In a couple weeks she will begin a pilot study to determine the health effects from particles emitted from near-by companies. ‘This is in response to questions about what is the exposure to manganese and other metals in children,’ Haynes said.
Dr. Haynes is looking for 30 to 100 kids ages 7, 8, and 9 from East Liverpool and surrounding areas.
‘They will give a small sample of blood and hair. we’ll measure those for metals and their families will receive all the information back.’ Haynes said.
Dr. Haynes is currently conducting a similar study in Marietta and was interested in East Liverpool after it was mentioned in an article in USA Today which looked at air quality around schools.”
— Jennifer Baligush, WFMJ Youngstown
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EAST LIVERPOOL — “The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has notified Heritage-WTI that it violated a section of its operating permit on May 11, 2010, and each day of hazardous waste incineration thereafter.
The letter, dated June 23, was sent to John Peterka, president of Heritage-WTI operations in East Liverpool.
The letter states, Specifically, the results of testing performed on May 11 and May 12, 2010, show that levels of dioxins/furans and mercury exceeded the emission limitations provided in the permits.”
— Michael McElwain, East Liverpool Review
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 Downtown East Liverpool, and the clocktower of the East Liverpool High School Alumni Association. (JoAnn Frye) EAST LIVERPOOL — “By a 3-2 vote Thursday, the East Liverpool Board of Education formally asked that ‘hair metal level tests’ and ‘follow-up neuropsychological tests’ be conducted on school aged children within the district. The program would be voluntary and conducted by some state or federal agency that wasn’t named or mentioned in the resolution put forth by board member Dick Wolf… ‘We’ve suffered under this for 20 years,’ Wolf said about what he considers unhealthy conditions in the East End. ‘It’s time to determine the effects,’” Michael McElwain, East Liverpool Review.
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