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1 Europe over a period of time, and includes some
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2 measurements of various kinds of operations that were
3 done.
4 Q Can you describe what some of the
5 operations are, particularly as they would relate to
6 what you would expect to be going on in the garage
7 where Mr. Wood worked and tell us what the levels
8 were?
9 A Sure.
10 Q And how they relate to the 1986 OSHA
11 standard of .2 fibers.
12 A Sure. If we look at two different numbers,
13 the median is the middle of the numbers measured; and
14 the mean is just the average.
15 Add them up together and divide by the
16 number of the total samples and that gives you the
17 average or the mean.
18 There were 25 of those samples taken of just
19 the opening of the brake, in other words, pulling off
20 of the drum, and the median concentration was .1 and
21 the mean was .4, but there were individual