Rads caused by coolant mist
My partner has Rads caused by 10 hour exposure to water based C------ coolant mist containing formaldehyde, biocide, metal dusts & bacterium tramp oil anyone else in the same predicament, small piece of advice take samples of both the contaminated "tramp oil" & the clean coolant it might help your legal pursuit & your life especially when specialist medical help is sought and you need a "challenge test" to prove your case, also photos of the machine which caused the problem & photo copy the accident book if you can because the accident book has the nasty habit of "going missing" also companies make you redundant or they "go bust" when they know solicitors are involved. Hope this is of help also any medical expert willing to write a piece on the above I'd like some feedback its hard watching someone deteriorate through companies selfishness.
cheers
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Thank you for your comments. In the UK any claim is agaqinst the insurance company rather than the employer, so it is not critical whether the employer ceases to exist provided that the insurer can be traced.
Coolant oil exposure is very common in the engineering manufacting industry, and considering the large number of workers exposed there are suprisingly few reports of problems, RADS (irritant induced asthma) being the least common. More common is standard occupational asthma, where repeat low-dose exposures reproduce the asthma (in irritant induced asthma further low-dose exposures should be tolerated without problems).Coolant oil occupational asthma can be due to sensitisation to agents in the clean oil, such as biocides or deodorants, or can be due to metals (particularly cobalt from hard metal tipped tools) dissolved in the coolant, or to bacteria growing in the coolant. Extrinsic allergic alveolitis (hypersensitivity pneumonitis in North America) is also well recorded; there may also be an increase incidence of pulmonary fibrosis. Problems with the skin are probably the most common.
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