One Sick Building !!!!

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I have just received an environmental report on my workplace. Not a

pretty picture. Below are some of the " critters " that I have been

inhaling, ingesting and living with for 15 plus years. I have had to

file for Workman's Comp, long-term disability with my employer and

disability with the South Carolina State Retirement System. It is a

real " hot potato " and no one wants to hold it.

I have contacted an attorney for my Workman's Comp claim and waiting

for the next step. All three groups are evaluating my claim. I

have made the environmental report available to all three that

currently have claims against them. After depleting all of my earned

sick

and annual leave, my employer put me on unpaid leave on March 22,

2004. As you probably know, if you are having similiar problems,

you won't get much help from anyone but yourself. I now have OSHA

involved and have put together a very in-depth news release for

possible use in the future.

I would just encourage all of the sufferers of exposure to mycotoxin

producing mold to not give up! Keep pursuing your cause and

continue to share with others. The day is coming when industry and

businesses will realize the problem that we are dealing with. Only

then will the workers be assured of a safe working environment.

I have a site of my own about my experiences so far with the mold

issue. Lots of photos and other info there. Please feel free to check

it out and share anything that you might have of interest in your

case. Maybe we can all ban together to help others. Here is a

snapshot of the environmental report. I hope to publish it in it's

entirety to my site.

After seven (7) months of persistance, I finally received an

environmental report on the facility where I have been

employed for

the last

15 years. From what I can glean from the report (I am

not a

scientist) it looks like lots of unhealthy stuff was

found in the

building. I am

going to list a few as taken from the report.

Aspergillius/Penicillium - Like 10,667 spores/m3

Cladosporium - 356 spores/m3

Basidiospores - 356 spores/m3

Ascospores 800 spores/m3

Basidiospores- 20,000 spores/m3

Smuts - Myxomycetes/Periconia 267 spores/m3

Alternaria - 44 spores/m3

Amerospores - 200 spores/m3

Aspergillius/Penicillium - Like 756 spores/m3

Basidiospores - 67 spores/m3

Cladospoirum - 89 spores/m3

Curvularia - 22 spores/m3

Pithomyces/Ulocladium 22 spores/m3

Smuts/myxomycetes/Periconia- 44 spores/m3

Cladosporium- 37,000 CFU/Gram

Penicillium - 8,000 CFU/Gram

TOTAL 45,000 CFU/GRAM

These are only some of the sample testing results

taken from the full

report. I am seeking some expert to explain these

results to me

and the health dangers posed.

Don Fortner