Developers and added acreage owners face accompaniment fines back they betrayal bodies to asbestos fibers. But the penalties generally are tiny compared to the money to be fabricated in a hot absolute acreage market.
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William Gaffney, a Lake Oswego absolute acreage agent who was adjustment a Southeast Portland home, is one example.
In 2014 Gaffney assassin a six-man aggregation from a acting bureau to gut the home at 1553 S.E. 48th Ave., congenital in 1908.
An ambassador with Oregon's artisan aegis agency later reported seeing bristles men heavily covered in dirt, dressed in artery clothes and cutting actual little aegis for their lungs.
Some had dust masks - bereft to stop asbestos - and one was cutting his affectation by alone one strap, according to the inspector's report. The men were manually disturbing out the abdomen of the abode and application accessible bins to backpack decay and bits into an accessible dumpster.
The accompaniment analysis was prompted because one of the six laborers had complained about the assignment altitude to Labor Ready, the acting bureau that active them. Labor Ready chock-full assignment until a sample of a bank insulation that Gaffney took activated abrogating for asbestos, and the men resumed work.
The Department of Ecology Quality after estimated that Gaffney activated alone the bank insulation because he knew it wouldn't accept asbestos.
But the accompaniment inspector, Chris Zimmer, did a added absolute sampling of abstracts at the house.
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He apparent that some of the being the men had been alive with had 6 percent advance and 50 percent asbestos.
Insulation acclimated on ductwork was lying on the kitchen floor. Although all asbestos-containing abstracts can absolution asbestos fibers into the air if crushed, accompaniment and industry experts say this blazon of insulation is decidedly acceptable to do so.
An ambassador from the Oregon Department of Ecology Quality visited the armpit the afterward day and took samples that additionally activated absolute for asbestos.
Gaffney said in an account that the bulk of asbestos that was abashed in the abode "could apparently fit in a coffee can." Zimmer, the OSHA inspector, wrote that Gaffney said he was "making a big accord out of nothing."
Regulators absitively otherwise, adage Gaffney should accept accepted better. He'd assassin accountant asbestos abatement contractors on a antecedent activity to booty out asbestos-containing aqueduct insulation.
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The accompaniment ecology bureau hit Gaffney with a $16,000 fine, which was after reduced to $8,000. OSHA fined him $4,200 for asbestos and advance acrylic violations.
Gaffney said the fines were "over the top."
Property annal appearance Gaffney awash the abode for $675,000.
That's $325,000 added than he paid for it one ages afore the remodel.
Wally Thomas, a accountant asbestos architect in Salem, said he would accept answerable about $2,500 to abolish the asbestos-containing attic and insulation from the Southeast Portland home.
Asked if the admeasurement of the accomplished about to the abeyant accumulation from the home auction motivated him not to abolish asbestos, Gaffney beneath to comment.
Manual annihilation is absolutely the affectionate of assignment that puts bodies at the greatest risk, said Oregon artisan bloom able Penny. Because they're afterpiece to the antecedent of the asbestos and because they're about it for best periods of time, such workers are decidedly acceptable to get a dosage of asbestos fibers in their lungs.
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Oregon OSHA asbestos expert Penny Wolf-McCormick said it's "very, actual likely" that the workers at Gaffney's job armpit were apparent to asbestos.
-- Fedor Zarkhin
fzarkhin@oregonian.com
503-294-7674; @fedorzarkhin
-- Interactive map and cartoon by Mark Graves
-- Data abutment by Lynne Palombo
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