Posted by Wardner on November 07, 2009 at 18:02:30 from (4.154.240.64):
In Reply to: Re: Soda Blaster posted by ScottyHOMEy on November 07, 2009 at 16:25:24:
I was a professional sandblasting contractor from 1968 to 1998. I have no disabilities including work related ailments. I retired because New England has lost most of its heavy manufacturing base. Seventy five percent of my work was with metal fabricators.
It's not the media you use. It's all bad from a health perspective except for dry ice. It's the protection you don't use that will get you. That means a full coverage blasting helmet with enough air so that the helmet almost floats. It means ear plugs crammed deeply into the ear canal, and I mean DEEPLY. It means holding your breath when leaving or entering a confined work space without your helmet.
During my thirty year career, I worked for numerous govt agencies and fortune 500 hundred companies. Half of them required medical exams prior to mobilization. My pulmonary function tests and hearing tests were always good. In fact I have never been ill except for a few broken bones and lacerations.
There is no need to be concerned about personal health if one has proper personal protective equipment. On the flip side, there should be concern about environmental protection but that is another subject.
As for soda, I tested it at a sales convention and was unimpressed. It is a very specialized media with limited applications or specification requirements.
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