Monona Rossol on tue 18 mar 97
Ralph in PE SA with such common sense wrote:
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> Dear Gil et al, the point of my original warning was that
> whatever advice or recipe is given on Clayart, any
> potential hazard has to be warned against. One cannot
> assume anything. No matter how long or short a period
> one has been a potter, even 50 years, one can still learn.<
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> It is criminal for any person teaching ceramics
> to plead ignorance of the health hazards. In law
> ignorance is no excuse. I am waiting to see the first law
> suit against a pottery teacher for lung damage or
> sillicosis or whatever. <
Too late to wait for the first law suit. I personally know of a lawsuit
for brain damage to a student from carbon monoxide exposure from a kiln where
the defendants were a teacher, a school, and a ventilation consultant; a
potter's wheel accident in which the 13-year-old injured party got a very big
settlement and the defendants were a school, a teacher, and a school nurse (I
was an expert in this case); a suit filed but not set for trial yet for
silicosis in a pottery teacher against his school; and I am reading
depositions now in two very sad children's lead poisoning cases who only
lived in homes where the parents did pottery in a separate room and the
defendants are two well-known glaze companies.
There are probably a ton more that are quietly settled that I never hear of.
> I know HCL is in one's stomach, but do you know what
> happens to you when it is let lose on unprotected parts
> of your body. I have the unfortunate problem of a hiatus
> hernia, with the accompanying reflux up oesophagus.
> SNIP... If that is what HCL
> can do to my oesophagus then I would hate to see what
> it can do to my lungs. <
Your common sense is dead-on. Lung tissue is even more susceptible to damage
from HCl.
> SNIP ... I know I
> would rather be a healthy potter with a lousy glaze than
> a sick potter with the most beautiful glaze in the world. <
Long may you wave, Ralph.
Monona
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