[ RadSafe ] FW: Pipe Cleaners

[Dan]

This is TENORM material that precipitated over time on the pipes.  
Mainly radium. Well known and characterized.

Dan W McCarn, Geologist
HotGreenChile at gmail.com
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On Mar 8, 2010, at 1:36 PM, "Mercado, Don" <don.mercado at lmco.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have more information on this? Was it natural or manmade  
> RM?
>
> Jury: Energy giant must pay $2 million
> By The Associated Press
> Friday, March 05, 2010
>
> A state district court jury decided Friday that Exxon Mobil Corp.  
> failed to warn workers that offshore drilling pipes they cleaned  
> over decades contained radioactive contamination.
>
> Sixteen former employees of now-defunct Intracoastal Tubular  
> Services, of Harvey, were awarded nearly $2 million as compensation  
> for the increased risk of developing cancer. The jury declined to  
> award punitive damages.
>
> "We still believe that our pipe did not cause any harm," Exxon Mobil  
> attorney Charles Gay said after the verdict.
>
> Plaintiff attorney Tim Falcon said the former workers were  
> disappointed by the award, but still called the finding that Exxon  
> was at fault "a victory."
>
> The verdict came after seven days of deliberations. No blame was  
> placed on Intracoastal Tubular Services.
>
> The suit was filed in 2001 after a New Orleans jury awarded the  
> Grefer family, which owns the property on which the pipes were  
> cleaned, $1 billion in punitive damages against Exxon Mobil and  
> ITCO. The family leased 33 acres for three decades to ITCO.
>
> A state appeals court later upheld the verdict, but reduced punitive  
> damages to $122 million.
>
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