I used to work as a sample prep technician in a geochemical analysis lab. My job was to grind core samples into a talcum powder-like consistency using a "ringer" (kind of like an overgrown paint-shaker from hell). Since the samples were being analyzed to detect asbestos, gold, arsenic - we didn't want to breathe that dust in or get it on our clothes so we had to wear heavy rubber suits, isolated breathing units, goggles, heavy rubber gloves, hardhats and steel-toe boots.
The worst part? It was in a corrugated aluminum shed in the middle of the summer and it would hit about 45' Celcius inside between the machinery and the easy-bake oven we were working in.
Also, it was full of illegal immigrants who would do all kinds of entertaining things like have packing-knife fights in the lunchroom and loose fingers in the rock chipper.
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That's horrible. Jesus.
I used to work as a sample prep technician in a geochemical analysis lab. My job was to grind core samples into a talcum powder-like consistency using a "ringer" (kind of like an overgrown paint-shaker from hell). Since the samples were being analyzed to detect asbestos, gold, arsenic - we didn't want to breathe that dust in or get it on our clothes so we had to wear heavy rubber suits, isolated breathing units, goggles, heavy rubber gloves, hardhats and steel-toe boots. The worst part? It was in a corrugated aluminum shed in the middle of the summer and it would hit about 45' Celcius inside between the machinery and the easy-bake oven we were working in. Also, it was full of illegal immigrants who would do all kinds of entertaining things like have packing-knife fights in the lunchroom and loose fingers in the rock chipper.