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Article: North Carolina Workers Haunted by Years of Weyerhaeuser Asbestos Exposure.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- April 21, 2002
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By Anne Saker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 21--PLYMOUTH, N.C.--The snowstorm swirled around Grover Barber and Mack Henry Leggett, spotting their clothes with flecks of paper and bits of insulation. The boilers roared, the turbines howled, and the dust fell everywhere, twinkling in the lights, settling, stirring back up again. The sun could shine and the rain could pour on Plymouth, but inside the town's paper mill on the banks of the Roanoke River, every day brought a snowstorm.
Though that day in 1982 was like most others at the mill, Barber remembered that particular snowstorm because of something his ...