Smithsonian and 27-Year Employee in Battle Over Asbestos

March 16, 2009

A year ago, the National Air and Space Museum gathered a group of workers for a safety briefing on “asbestos awareness.” Nearly 45 minutes into the session, the museum’s safety coordinator said something that Richard Pullman thought at first he’d misheard: There was asbestos in the museum walls.

Pullman, a 53-year-old lighting specialist, had worked in the building for 27 years, frequently cutting into interior walls to install and update artifacts at one of the world’s most visited museums.

“Are you telling us that I’ve been working with this stuff for that long, drilling into these walls, sawing and sanding, unprotected?” Pullman recalls asking. “Why didn’t you guys say anything?”

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