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SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 days agoThat sounds horrible, I guess it’s more healthy than bearing grease though.
Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 days agoThat sounds horrible, I guess it’s more healthy than bearing grease though.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 days ago
you’d think that, but you’d be wrong.
ever hear of popcorn lung? yeah, working there, all the old timers had it. I had only worked there for about 5 years but the smell got into everything.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How’d they get popcorn lung from that? Did it aerosolize from the us?
BTW those people who got popcorn lung which ended up coining the term, all were heavy heavy smokers. So yes it’s dangerous but it’s one of those…well it probably didn’t help that they smoked like freight trains.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 days ago
yeah. the factory was doing diecast parts at 1400° and the shortening was a mould release so the parts would pop out of the dies.
the pressure that those machines push in molten metal plus the high temperature would vaporize the shortening and with 3-12 tons of pressure aerosolize it.
Even after 5 years there I had a bit of a cough, but nothing as bad as the old guys that had been around for 30+ years.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That sounds fucking awful. Did they not give you guys any PPE?