OSHA in 025?
Bunch of comments saying that OSHA showed up in 025 and was interviewing Officers.
They're going to need a slightly larger staff if they hit every single Area Building, then work their way down to other stations:
- asbestos in all the Areas
- dangerous mold
- leaking plumbing in locker rooms and holding cells
- cancer clusters in some of the really old buildings
- shoddy construction and collapsing buildings
- don't even get us started on equipment
Feel free to list other places they ought to look around.
Labels: safety issues
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
81 Comments:
Garages and parking lots.
Tear down the building.
Fucking leaking drain fly infested showers
Hope this is true maybe the Donald, who mentions his support by Chicago Police at every rally, is sending OSHA in. We can but hope. Anything to drive that bug eyed imbecile Groot more nuts.
014 has rats the size of cats, sewage and often no air conditioning in the summer months. Oh yeah and the mayor!
002 is a total roach motel!
POs fr025, and Area 5, seem to have a higher than normal rate of Cancer.
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Usually state and local government employees are not covered by federal OSHA. If you try to file a complaint, they determine if you are covered by who your paycheck is paid by. If it is the city, they can not do any enforcement action. However, if a private sector contractor is working inside a public building, OSHA protection follows them in the door, but they have to be the one to complain.
There is also the Illinois dept. of labor who try to cover state and local employees in Illinois. (very weak, no fines, almost just advisory). Like giving a driver with a BAC of .24 triple-drunk, a warning ticket.
Just got off probation and the orange colored water is just fine here , what seems to be the problem ? I thought we had a Gatorade well to cover our high number
Saul Alinsky said: Make them play by their own rules
Go to the EPA’s website. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforces Federal environmental regulations. The EPA derives its authority to regulate asbestos through the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act. In order to comply with EPA regulations, asbestos must be handled carefully and in specific ways. The negligent handing of asbestos is a violation of regulations. Therefore, if you witness anyone handing asbestos negligently, you can report it to the EPA.[4]
The EPA has a dedicated website where you can file complaints. You can find it at https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/report-environmental-violations.
6120 S Racine. Building engineer said it is condem and not inhabitable. They say don't stay inside to long or you will get sick and do not drink the water !!
How soon we forget. 1121 was so bad I think OSHA had someone assigned there. And look how long it took to finally get us out of there So don’t think help is on the way. Ain’t gonna happen.
I have photographs of the warning signs and workers in hazmat suits removing asbestos or just working in the dangerous environment of 3151 W. Harrison St. Second Floor doing remodeling to re-open Area 4. All this while 011 District was fully operational and people working downstairs inhaling the harmful debris. I’ll email it over to you guys.
All related to the accident in which the P.O. was run over by the drunk. Nothing to do with the serious deficiencies in city buildings where police work. But we should send them to the southside training location on south Constance.
The 002nd District!!!!!!!!!!
Check there!!!! Absolutely the worst.
The problem is the solution is not going to be to fix the problem, it's going to be to avoid it. Be careful what you wish for, or you might be having roll call outside or meeting at a makeshift station for the next 20 years while stations are under "repair". I'm not saying that operating in hazardous environments is fine, but remember what city you work for.
Inadequate air and light sources. Some of the windows are so high up that it's like being in a cave. And last year there was a problem with the AC and almost none of the windows on the first floor could open or they're so high off the ground you could get killed just trying to reach them.
Pretty sure the 011 parking lot alone would give OSHA a heart attack. If not that, the smell of the downstairs bathrooms that barely drain will do it.
014 and the old 019 go there and make sure you put your HAZMAT suit on..
Clean up aisle 2...
Wonder ...which connected contractor, is going to get right on this.
...and how much are the tax payers going to get stuck with the bill.
before it has to be done again.
and the band played on.
The old 023 has had a lot of younger Officer's get sick and some passing away from Cancer. If OSHA came into 011 they would shut it down immediately! The smell in the basement is a combination of mold and a body rotting somewhere in the walls. The exposed pipes, walls, asbestos is all over the building.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
014 has rats the size of cats, sewage and often no air conditioning in the summer months. Oh yeah and the mayor!
9/25/2020 12:14:00 AM
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Re-word your sentence to “the mayor is a huge rat that smells of shit and blows hot air” and you would be a metaphorical genius!
That’s today’s “e-learning” lesson!
Stay safe and support each other and be good to your families.
116th and Indiana is literally a sewer. It smell like peoples shit (literally) on most mornings, and other mornings it smalls like mold. 61st/Racine is no better.
It does sound like something that President The Donald would do. Carry on sir.
Maybe OSHA would be interested in the Homan Square “Black Ops Site”. There is peeling lead paint coming off every pipe in that building along with all the issues every other district has: sewage back up, mold, asbestos, etc.
Speaks for the entire city under mayor Lightfoot
The old 19 (Belmont and Western), if you don't get cancer from that building, its a miracle!! Also, hit up the south shore training site too!! I'm sure their meters will ring off the wall.
004 not just the station. The entire neighborhood is cancerous wasteland
they showed up in 001 a few years bak big screaming head Al Nagode was pissed, the do nothing Bonnie Amato some how was able to fend them off despite the raw sewage and zillions of bugs not to mention a 100 other things............
Area Five roof leaked back in 2004 or thereabouts. Instead of making repairs right away, they rigged these large drip pans that caught the water, then via tubing into buckets to be disposed of. Of course the water had already passed through all the construction materials, ceiling tiles etc. along the way.
OSHA looking to leadership deficiencies leading to POs being injured in civil unrest.
2 and 11, bring them here, nasty fucking places.
011 district parking lot is piece by piece falling apart.
The stairs are rusty and very scary to use. One day a bolt is going to crack and the whole stairway will collapse.
The concrete literally is falling off on sections and the potholes are so big you could lose your car in. They are on every floor of the garage.
The metal grids in the garage structure floor is showing through.
The district building itself... smelly, gross and nothing works.
Shithole building located in a shithole...seems fitting.
“I have photographs of the warning signs and workers in hazmat suits removing asbestos or just working in the dangerous environment of 3151 W. Harrison St. Second Floor doing remodeling to re-open Area 4. All this while 011 District was fully operational and people working downstairs inhaling the harmful debris. I’ll email it over to you guys.“
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Don’t forget them putting huge dumpsters of asbestos in the 011 parking lot where we park the squads. The even put signs on the dumpsters warning to stay away from them because of it.
Send OSHA to call back, radiation being emitted from lights and around doors where equipment is stored. It’ could be the antenna tower that’s causing it but not confirmed. Copper from mids has his radiation detector and dropped paper regarding said incident. He’s not feeling good from what people are hearing. Supposedly the city is aware of it and I assume OSHA. Hopefully they come check. Building engineer definitely knows about it and some sgts. Ventilation there is bad.
more than 10 years ago parts of A/2 were closed off because of shoddy crony construction.
The two real problems that OSHA can't solve are the Indian spirits that haunt the station. You should never disturb a sacred burial ground. Also the ghost of Joe Curtin still makes his presence felt every so often.
Expect a MAJOR push for yellow vests to be worn when out in traffic. It is a federal law that we have been disregarding since the onset. Department is going to get whacked on this one and we all know where shit goes. Dig that vest out of your kids toys, you are going to need it.
Just waiting om the 11th district parking garage to collapse ! Support beams turning to dust and the drain pipes detaching due to rust !
District #2/Area#1 Total disrespect to our officers
Is that enormous X-ray machine still at HQ, the one where an Officer stands there with no body protection?
Pretty sure the 011 parking lot alone would give OSHA a heart attack. If not that, the smell of the downstairs bathrooms that barely drain will do it.
Even the first floor johns smell like a sewer and the men's rarely has properly working urinals, much less soap and towels, etc. Yet we take it.
Why is it that it’s always city contracted buildings that have these problems, especially plumbing. But, in the end we all know why and have to live with it because nothing will be done anyway. Kind of like half a watch being assigned to the toad’s house and the rest of the citizens in the district left to fend on their own.
Working inside at 025 or 014 is more dangerous than the streets.
In the old 016 on Gale Street back in the 90s the bowling lane sized locker room had asbestos covered pipes just above our heads. A couple of us complained to the neighborhood newspaper and made a couple phone calls and the city shut the locker room down and removed the asbestos.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Inadequate air and light sources. Some of the windows are so high up that it's like being in a cave. And last year there was a problem with the AC and almost none of the windows on the first floor could open or they're so high off the ground you could get killed just trying to reach them.
At least you have windows. Area 2 doesn’t have any windows that can be opened. Think about how many decades of the same stagnant air and funk from all the bums sleeping in the lobby. Not to mention all the mold in the ceilings.
Interesting but OSHA at least at the federal level does not have jurisdiction over government entities.
Many died working on a 008 District from cancer the old one and even the new 001 district have cancer due to that being built on a automotive junkyard that no one else would build on it because it’s uninhabitable due to the ground conditions just like where they want to build a new police academy the ground over there is contaminated they don’t care about coppers how many more coppers have to die or develop cancer? And fuck you Larry!!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
All related to the accident in which the P.O. was run over by the drunk. Nothing to do with the serious deficiencies in city buildings where police work. But we should send them to the southside training location on south Constance.
9/25/2020 02:20:00 AM
Since when does OSHA investigate IODs?
OSHA has no authority for the safety of local government employees. My guess is that it is Illinois OSHA doing the look sees. Given that Mike Madigan hates cops as much as the other dems, I doubt he allows anything substantive to change.
I don’t think the Mayor or the Alderman realize just how unbelievably disgusted how not just the 025th District is, but the WHOLE department has become. You’d think that in a year of unprecedented violence directed towards our members instead of meaningful contract ,talks we get a Mayor and Gov fanning the flames of more violence and referring to CPD as a bunch of Inbreeds. Sound like the monster these Democrats have created will come back to eat them soon...Co-vember(cough cough.)
Area 2/ 005th district asbestos rotten smell from sewers. Rats esposed pipes with asbestos insulation showing
Made a copy of the asbestos abatement letter that was on a door in 025.
I keep it in my medical file at home.
Definitely Area 4!! The chairs in the new camera room are disgusting.
I get a kick out of those terrazzo floors they put in the newer stations. Some cracked the year they went in, but i think it's safe to say they are all cracked now. There are some buildings downtown with 80 year old terrazzo that's been buffed down to nothing and still haven't cracked. Most expensive floor you can put in and they are fucked up before the warrantee is up, which i'll bet was never enforced.
Just goes to show how the connected outfit to the mayor did shoddy construction on every district station including HQ with cheap material and pocketed the money left over. This has been going on with every Daley in office and their connected companies that keep putting money into re-election campaigns
Not a cop, but my profession requires that I deal with all the officious democrat-crack-pot building & environmental ordinances.
That stated:
I promise that if 025 was sold on the commercial real estate market, it would be an EPA super-fund site. Given that the structure was erected in the late 70s - early 80s, there surely wasn't a phase 1 environmental study conducted on the site as is customary these days. Who knows what chemicals have leached, or have been allowed to leach into the ground - especially in the old vehicle maintenance area on the west side of the property. I'll bet you'll find perchloroethylene / tetrachloroethylene in high concentrations in that area. These are EPA no-no's. These chemicals stay in the ground, don't decompose, are a carcinogen and mutagenic. Really. Of course, on the south side of the property, you're likely to find high concentrations of various VOC's - mainly from the railroad and lack of proper easement. On the east side of the property you're likely to find higher than normal heavy metals. I.e. cadmium, arsenic, beryllium oxide, nickel etc.. Likely from the plating operation that used to be there (just east) in the 50s. Just look at what the libs did to Sterigenics back in February of this year. All you need is a few "Concerned neighbors / citizens" to bitch about ground water and dead plants.
how many officers that have worked at Homan Sq have gotten cancer and it's still open!
It’s no wonder that the urinals in 011 don’t work properly. When they were building that monstrosity there was a Jesse Jackson dispute about minority contractors. So one got hired. They hung the urinals on the walls. A review of the work found none were connected to drains. The contractor said they were going to come back at a later date to install the piping.
Osha has been to so many police stations that I can recall since 1981. No building was ever condemned. If a problem was found, a band aid was put over it. Police still worked in filthy unsafe conditions and were supposed to be strong and tough it out. Fuck Chicago.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Pretty sure the 011 parking lot alone would give OSHA a heart attack. If not that, the smell of the downstairs bathrooms that barely drain will do it.
Even the first floor johns smell like a sewer and the men's rarely has properly working urinals, much less soap and towels, etc. Yet we take it.
9/25/2020 09:46:00 AM
How many passive aggressive guys drop a duece and never flush? Ya really getting back at the city with that one. Then the next guy comes in and takes a leak on top of it. I'm going to become a transgender so I can use the women's bathroom!
Area One Detective Division is the worst. No ventilation. Windows with no vent options, no fresh air, brown coffee water. OSHA came to the building but was denied access. Oh yeah don’t forget that dead thing inside the wall in the men’s locker room.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
how many officers that have worked at Homan Sq have gotten cancer and it's still open!
The 001st District is the cancer hub.
You should see some Cook County Sheriff facilities. The Maywood firearms basement building for one.
The Detective Offices at the JISC are inside the lockup! No windows to open for fresh air and a Horrible AC/Heating system. Plus the building is over 100 years old with peeling paint and mice all over. And the Detective's have to act as defacto lockup keepers because 99 percent of the time there is only 1 lockup keeper even though we cover 10 districts. Do not bid here!
SCC, OT. This is a direct quote from the Chicago Board of Ethics website's public FOIA log from 9/21/20. A FOIA just filed;
"1) Any disciplinary file associated with a sexual relationship between Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter and any subordinate including, but not limited to, former Director of Labor Relations Winter Jackson. 2) Any actions taken by Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter to delay the implementation of a sexual misconduct policy, as required by the Federal Consent Decree supervised by Hon Maggie Hickey and Hon Robert Dow. 3) Any disciplinary action taken by Superintendent Brown to discipline Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter for sexual misconduct, or for delaying the implementation of the sexual misconduct policy as required by the Federal Consent Decree." WTF?
Democrats are using the coronavirus outbreak to undermine election security measures under the guise of public health and safety, Cotton stated. He noted that removal of election security measures has been a Democrat goal for years.
Democrats never let a good crisis to to waste. In fact, they'll make a crisis far worse, as they have in this case, just so they can leverage it to their advantage. As a general rule, what's good for Democrats is devastating for Americans.
That's another reason why the Dems are afraid of Trump. He's already made his money, all he''ll ever need and quite a lot more. They can't buy him, he doesn't take their crap lying down like the father-son Bushes did, he strikes back. He seems in fact to take delight in getting them outraged which makes them inadvertently show their nasty inner selves.
He's also there because he honestly wanted to Make America Great Again which not only is his slogan but it just happens to also be a jibe at the Dems relentless denigration of America.
One thing about President Trump -- he's never boring!
And for all that, he's effective -- the most effective President (despite the massive pushback) I have ever seen.
Looking at 'the big picture', I'm better off under President Trump than I would be under Hillary Clinton, or Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris, or AOC.
I don't think a life-time President is a good idea (just look at the mess that RBG made of SCOTUS!), but Trump's term of 2020-2024 does need to build up a strong conservative replacement for 2025 and beyond.
Hillary and her ridiculous supporters haven't accepted the 2016 results yet
^^^A lot of misinformation here. Illinois is a “state plan” OSHA state in which ONLY state and local government workers ARE covered by the state plan—look it up. Illinois and 5 other states are unique that way. All other workers in IL are covered by Federal OSHA. That means that ALL OSHA standards are enforced by the state for state and local government workers, including coppers. It’s more than just leaky pipes and asbestos, guys, it’s everything in your work environment. http://www.osha.gov/stateplans
Now wait a minute. You mean to tell me that COVID-19 is not the black death. Virtually everyone under 50 survives!
The U.S. Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated its estimated Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) parameters to include age-specific data showing the vast majority of people who contract the Chinese coronavirus survives.
CDC’s new IFR estimates broken down by age are part of the agency’s September 10 update to its “COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios.”
Based on the “Scenario 5: Current Best Estimate” for the IFR, Breitbart News confirmed the updated age-specific survival rates:
0-19 years old, 99.997 percent; 20-49 years old, 99.98 percent; 50-69 years, 99.5 percent; and 70 years old or older, 94.6 percent.
I have worked in every district and every detective area in the city. I'm non-LE. One is worse than the next. Area1. 3rd floor Penthouse (ironic name to say the least) houses huge HVAC machines that are ancient and leak, creating permanent puddles. I can verify every comment I have read on here.
Worked at 2452, 3151 and 5101. I can't say that anyone place was that much worse then the other. They each had their own special problems. The only way to get Amado to do anything about an issue was to threaten to close the lock-up. They cared more about moving prisoners out to another lock-up then the people who went there everyday. Keep the windows open and don't drink the water
Definitely Area 4!! The chairs in the new camera room are disgusting.
Yea, you might catch an STD if you sit on the wrong one!!!
Someone tell them about the old 007th district building...
You guys wanna get really mad and jealous go take a look at the Glenview Police Station. Beautiful... or the new Arlington Heights one, or Mt. Prospect, you know, cities that care about their p.os
As one who would know,and as one who has suggested this previously, start looking into the Indoor Air Quality at the Gun Ranges, then proceed with asking the Building Engineers pointed questions about their maintenance activities on the ventilation system that serves the range rooms. The 'lead dust question', and how they handle the filter questions, and how they protect themselves, etc. Remember how all those files were hidden behind the gym at 51st/Wentworth? That room was isolated because that's where the range ventilation system is located and it turned out to be a good excuse to keep people out.
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