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1 wheel grinder to sharpen a tool, a hole or shovel,
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2 something like that and some of the machines were
3 larger and horizontal in configuration, but they
4 are -- essentially it is a grindstone that removes the
5 material in a controlled fashion.
6 You see that the average concentration
7 there, again, a little distance away, about that far
8 away, was just under five fibers per cc on average and
9 that the range was 1.7 to 7.
10 As you got further away, once again, the
11 further away you get, the lower the concentration
12 gets.
13 Q Now, there is an entry there that says
14 distance 8.3 m or meters, that is about 24 feet; is
15 that correct?
16 A Yes, sir, a little more.
17 Q Even at that distance it is still four times
18 what the OSHA standard for asbestos was at .2 fibers?
19 A Yes, sir, out of the 1986 --
20 Q The 1986 level?
21 A Yes, sir.