with a U.S. challenge of a 50 percent reduction nationwide in the use and release of mercury by 2006 . Eight states and fifteen municipalities have already enacted mercury thermometer bans, and eleven ...

Mercury-free thermometers provide comparable accuracy and do not compromise teaching, research or patient care. As part of this program, operable mercury thermometers can be exchanged for mercury-free ...

Mercury and mercury-containing devices have historically been used in laboratories and shops to measure temperature, pressure, liquid density, and humidity. Other common sources of mercury include ...

“Kessler Thermometer Corp. knowingly endangered the lives and health of their employees by ignoring basic safeguards to control hazardous mercury in the workplace and failed to acknowledge its ...

WEST BABYLON, N.Y.-- Workers at a thermometer factory in West Babylon, New York who were exposed to airborne mercury blame their employer for "prioritizing profits over people." Their boss at the ...

WEST BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — The owner of a New York thermometer factory was sentenced Friday to three years of probation for failing to protect workers who were exposed to hazardous levels of ...

Owner of Thermometer Factory Gets Probation for Exposing Workers to Mercury WEST BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — The owner of a New York thermometer factory was sentenced Friday to three years of probation ...