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Article: Job requirement: A perfect eye for safety.
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- ORian
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- April 30, 2007
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Byline: Brent Hunsberger
Apr. 30--Doug Beaton works in the dark all day, knowing that any mistake he makes won't stay hidden.
Beaton is a film interpreter at PCC Structurals Inc. in Portland, a division of Precision Castparts Corp. For most of his day, he sits behind a black drape in a darkened room at PCC's titanium plant in Southeast Portland, peering through a special jewelers loop at backlit X-rays of large metal parts that go into jet engines on Boeing, Airbus and military planes.
He scans a black-and-white image of a 200-pound fan frame for streaks and specs -- signs of shrinkage, cracks in welds and particles of dirt as tiny as ...