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Article: Asbestos Plagues Health-Sciences Plant at Research Triangle Park, N.C.
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- December 2, 2002
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By Bill Krueger, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 2--RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--The federal agency that helped educate the world to the dangers of asbestos has an asbestos problem of its own.
In late October, federal workplace safety officials cited the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for failing to warn workers at its headquarters in Research Triangle Park of the presence of asbestos in the heating plant.
As a result, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration required the institute, an agency devoted to figuring out what elements in an environment make people ...