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A steam pipe explosion in New York City has sparked fears of asbestos contamination ' here's why that's concerning

Published by Business Insider on Thu, 19 Jul 2018


A steam pipe explosion in New York City sent muck, steam, and asphalt into the air.Electric company ConEd is also testing for asbestos contamination.Asbestos is a building material that can be toxic when inhaled. It is linked to lung cancer.On Thursday, a steam pipe exploded on 5th Avenue in New York City, spewing muck, steam, and asphalt into the air. The incident also generated fears of asbestos contamination."Environmental testing is being conducted to determine whether asbestos or other contaminants are present, but as a precaution anyone in the vicinity of the rupture who was covered in material is advised to bag their clothing and shower," electric companyConEd said in a statement on Twitter.The fire department confirmed the possibility of asbestos being released in the explosion. "We're operating with an abundance of caution since this steam main was installed in 1932, so there is possibly a presence of asbestos. Samples have been taken and we're awaiting the lab results. We are operating as though those samples will come back positive," FDNY CommissionerDaniel A. Nigro said in a statement on Facebook.Why Asbestos is dangerousAsbestos was used as a building material for years before it was linked to lung cancer. The materialcan be toxic when we inhale it."Asbestos is a group of naturally occurring fibrous minerals with current or historical commercial usefulness due to their extraordinary tensile strength, poor heat conduction, and relative resistance to chemical attack," the World Health Organization explains. For a long time, asbestos was used in insulation, water supply lines, roof shingles, break pads, and numerous other products."The reality is that anybody brought up in the 1960s has probablybeen exposed, at some point, to asbestos," cancer researcherPaul Pharoah from Cambridge University recently told Business Insider.Products that contain asbestos arenot completely banned in the US today, though the Environmental Protection Agency regulates their use.But governments in other countries have completely banned the use of asbestos. In France, all forms have been outlawed since 1997, because the government there declared "at least 2000 people in France die every year from asbestos-related diseases."The World Health Organization says definitively that all forms of asbestos are carcinogenic to humans, and causes cancer in the lungs, larynx, ovaries, as well as many cases of mesothelioma.SEE ALSO:32 of the most dangerous things science has strongly linked to cancerJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: Here's the surprising way sugar led to our lung cancer epidemic
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