A 1962 asbestos shoveling competition in Wittenoom, Australia, shows how casually blue asbestos was once handled—and how dangerous that exposure could be. Workers raced to fill drums with crocidolite asbestos while dust filled the air around them. Wittenoom later became one of the world’s most notorious asbestos disaster sites, with many former workers and residents developing asbestos-related diseases.
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