An ex-asbestos worker who was employed at Deutsche Bank recently quit her job due to the unsafe worker conditions she believes she was working under.

She claims her boss berated her for wanting to wear asbestos protective gear.

Worker Questions Safety

Helen Rocos was one of the several workers picked to work for the lucrative job of searching for human bones fragments on the roof of a toxic building late last spring.

Rocos says her and the other workers were assured that all the asbestos had been removed from the rooftop, so they wore their ordinary work uniforms as they searched through the piles of gravel.

“They told us to get rid of the asbestos, but as I’m digging, I’m thinking, ‘How did they magically get rid of all this healthy dirt behind?’” explains Rocos.

Rocos Puts Safety First

On the first day, Rocos came back from lunch wearing an asbestos mask and says her Bovis Lend Lease supervisor was furious.

Her supervisor reportedly told her to remove the mask and called her a loudmouth and troublemaker when she refused.

Rocos didn’t believe all of the gravel was asbestos free and said it was “insane” how the supervisor was allowing the other workers to sift through the dirt then watching as they got up to have a donut, licking their fingers.

She also claims that when she and the other workers were cleaning asbestos out of the inside of the building they were prevented from washing up because the decontamination units were low on water.

For Rocos, the mask debate was the last straw and she quit on the spot.

“Those bosses were too greedy, lazy and callous to care. They broke rules left and right,” says Rocos.

(Source: New York Daily News)

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