April 2, 2007
Talk about a job hazard.....
A Minneapolis city worker is worried about blood in the sewer system because he said, while he was cleaning the system, blood sprayed out of a hole and got all over him.
"We could tell it was blood, I mean large amount of blood," said Minneapolis Sewer Maintenance Worker Ron Huebner.
It happened about two weeks ago in Northeast Minneapolis near a lab that does medical testing and dumps blood into the sewer. It is allowed but the city is now making changes to help protect workers in the future.
"Blood just all over my face, in my mouth, I could taste it. It was terrible. I had it in my mouth and I kept spitting and I couldn't get rid of it," said Huebner.
The Metropolitan Council, the regional planning agency for Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., said it was a mix of human and animal blood used in medical testing at a nearby lab.
The company, R & D Systems, does have a permit to dump blood in the sewer system. However, Huebner wasn't protected or warned about the blood because his immediate bosses didn't know about.
When asked if it's safe to have blood in the sewers, the Metropolitan Council, which issued the permit, said it is no more harmful than most other wastes in there. The sanitary sewer system, they say, is the appropriate place for these types of liquid wastes and there are other companies that have permits to discharge blood in the sewer system.
According to the Metropolitan Council, there are about four slaughterhouses, about 20 hospitals, and about a dozen medical and pharmaceutical companies that have permits.
http://cbs2chicago.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_089113857.html
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That almost made me hurl! I never thought about blood being down there. As if shit and piss isn't bad enough. People should not be allowed to work down there with the risk of AIDS and hepatitis.
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