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15 years I ago I worked on the construction phase of a microchip manufacturing facility, well actually they were adding another separate plant to make gaming ch
by RaceWon 8y ago
15 years I ago I worked on the construction phase of a microchip manufacturing facility, well actually they were adding another separate plant to make gaming chips.
The computer giant that owned the land and had done so much ecological damage to the water table they had to supply the town with city water. Dead birds could be found all over the rooftops, no worms or insects were in any of the soil near the plant.
At the time I had no idea of the chemicals used to make chips but I do now, and it's TERRIFING. Here's a few off the top of my head: 100% ultra high purity Sulphuric acid, Hydrochloric Acid, Hydrofluoric Acid, Potassium Hydroxide, Arsine, Arsenic, Silane gas (my personal fav, it's deadly to breathe but that won't kill you because it typically explodes when it mixes with air), and also a patented chemical that the company named J1000... but we all called it 2 step because if you got even One drop on you--you'd take 2 steps and be dead.
I worked there for just a few months... I was involved with the testing of the gasses some inert most were deadly though and could fuck you up just by touching your skin; one night I had a dream that a valve cabinet failed, and I tasted pink bubble gum--I woke up before I died in that dream. The next day I quit.
- ianai 8y agoDid anyone die while you worked there?
- onetimemanytime 8y agoNot the OP but all those things can't be good for you at all. The worst part is that it may happen 22 years later and just blame second hand smoke or something.
- ianai 8y agoVery true. My skin harshly reacts to many things that are just common place today. Don’t want to go near stuff like that. I fully back leaving a workplace like that. It’s sad our field relies on such harmful compounds.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoChemistry /physics are such maybe that we have no way out? Don't know. Maybe robots can make both sides happy?
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- RaceWon 8y agoNot that I know of, but I understand a young employee from an electrical company had a heart attack due to cyanide exposure from an improperly decommissioned pipe; that was the word on street, and I talked to him and that's what he claimed too. I have no idea if it was true or not.
- blattimwind 8y agohttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-15/american-chipmakers-had-a-toxic-problem-so-they-outsourced-it https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-15/american-...