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Roofing, Roofers, and Potential Hazards of Being a Roofer

5/31/2019

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When I was in high school, and throughout the first 3 years of college (during summers, and winter break) I worked for a roofing company. The crew that I was on installed mostly large hot-asphalt roofs (aka hot-tar) which included tearing off the old roof and installing a new roof to replace it. As hot-asphalt can't be applied when it's wet out, when it rained we would stock under-construction houses with drywall, install insulation, stock shingles on roofs, and install composition shingles -- not any fun, but it kept us busy.  We couldn't run asphalt in the rain as the asphalt was about 650 degrees (Farenheit) in the kettle -- (that big, black, noisy, loud, hot piece of machinery you see on the ground that has a pipe up to the roof) -- as it would vaporize and boil when the slightest bit of moisture touched it -- 650 degrees is just slightly more than 3X the temperature of boiling water - so it's hot!.

There was no OSHA at the time (or if there was, we were so far off of the beaten path in a small town in Oregon that my employer wasn't concerned with it) - so few, if any, safety measures were in place. We often worked with no shirts on, no protective gear other than gloves and boots, and never any safety harnesses -- not a big deal on hot-asphalt roofs, as they're generally fairly flat, but on the steeped pitched roofs of the old Victorian homes on which we worked, safety harnesses would have been a good idea! I worked on a small pitched roof on the side of a grain elevator once - about 7 stories up (74 ft), and the guy with whom I was working, a very experienced roofer, scrambled after a piece of equipment that started to slide and he almost went with it (see photo below) -- not very smart and could have cost him his life -- no harnesses that day either. Note that the building on the left is about 100 yards closer than the grain elevator on the right, so the scale appears distorted -- it was way up there! When I was about 17 years old, I once packed a 30-ft ladder on my shoulder, up the side of that same grain elevator, via a built-in vertical ladder embedded in the side of the building. Again, no safety equipment -- lucky I'm still alive!
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In any event, what prompted this post was an email that I received from a group in Massachusetts that is working to educate the roofing public regarding the dangers of older roofing materials that may have contained asbestos, and could be a contributing factor to roofer contracting mesothelioma. I don't know anything about this organization or the information above/beyond what is contained on this website (link below), but if you know a roofer that might be affected/afflicted, they may want to avail themselves of this information:

Click Here for Additional Information
3 Comments
Roof Repair Pompano Beach link
3/10/2021 12:18:23 am

Unfortunately, many people tend to call and talk to roofing companies, but they ever end up saving their phone number. If you happen to be one of these people, then you need to reconsider discontinuing that practice.Repair immediate the damage roof as it is prone to accident.

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Tulsa OK Roofing Contractor link
4/6/2021 11:44:19 am

High quality roofing material is a must, and only quality roofing contractors should be hired for roof repair, roofing replacements, or new roof installation. A new roof is a huge investment

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Our Site link
5/9/2022 12:57:33 pm

Being a roofer is physically demanding since they lift heavy loads, are constantly knelling and bending, and climb steep surfaces.

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