STLToday.com reported a post office in the United States located near Westport Plaza was closed last Friday after an inspector the health of the St. Louis County suspected that asbestos had been released during the renovation of an adjoining office.
According to a spokesman for the Department of Health of the county, Craig LeFebvre, workers carrying out renovation work in the building next to the post office located at 02 Congress Drive discovered materials 'asbestos. The Department of Health was notified, and after determining that a temporary partition would not be enough to seal the area and the inspector requested that the post office is closed.
postal officials and the owner of the building cooperate with the Ministry of Health to secure the area. regional director of customer relations for the postal service, Loretta Tolliver said that the postal service has hired a specialist to examine the air quality in their building. Until it is determined that the post office is safe for occupation, Tolliver asked its customers to use the post office located on North New Ballas Road.
Exposure to asbestos fibers in the air can cause many diseases related to asbestos, such as asbestosis and lung terminal cancer, mesothelioma. Efforts by the postal service and the county Department of St. Louis of health are in place to help protect residents, office workers, postal workers in the renovation, guests of the post office to be exposed to these harmful fibers. The post office of the drive Congress will be reopened when the Ministry of Health and the independent expert determined that the building is safe for public use.
