Just spent 2-3 years wondering why I kept getting sick so often and sometimes coughing for 3-4 hours a day. (I'm a non smoker and otherwise healthy) I spent most of the weekend machining aly blocks with coolant splashing all over the place on a knee mill and on Sunday night felt really sick. Finally the penny dropped, it is the coolant in the air I was breathing in that was the cause. The realization only came as I was doing 2 x 8 hour days machining which exacerbated the problem.
I was booked in to see a immunologist next week for the coughing but I think I found the source of the problem. There could be 2 issues, the composition of the soluble oil or bacteria growth in the sump. The sump is a separate 60 litre tank and is clean but I'm getting a bacteria test done on it now. This the reading that struck a cord. See here https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/metalworkingfluids/metalworkingfluids_manual.html#e Look at Respiratory Diseases. I may not be the only one this has happened to. Cheers Wallace. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
