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“Very high altitude workers at astronomical observatories are well on their way into Space without the radiation protective pressurized Space suit.”

Space Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Radiation Tmt Protective Pressurized

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“At the age of 46 I was placed onto cholesterol lowering RX-Only prescription medication.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Medication Cholesterol Prescription Rx Only

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“The development of the biologically toxic Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) is the fruition of professional astronomers behaving badly.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Fruition Badly Professional Behaving

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“There is a lot of willful irresponsibility in professional astronomy.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Professional Irresponsibility Willful

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“As a manager in professional astronomy, I was keeping daily records on the abnormal behavioral problems in the staff. When the senior management team became aware of the records, they instructed me to destroy them.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Problems Mauna Kea Tmt Staff Abnormal Behavioral

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“I was on the Big‬ ‪Island‬ of ‪Hawaii in 2015 and managed to characterize the ionizing ‪‎radiation‬ ‎levels‬ in the south of the island. ‪Mauna‬ ‪Kea‬ was the radiation hot zone with approximately a doubling of radiation levels at the Mauna Kea Visitors Center at 9,200 feet as compared to sea level. I did not venture to the summit due to the known biologically harmful environmental conditions to the sea level adapted human that exist at 13,796 feet.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Radiation Tmt Summit Big Island

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“When I worked in high altitude astronomy, I was never screened annually by a doctor that was expert in low level radiation sickness (LLRS) and high altitude disease (HAD).”

Disease Astronomy Osha Sickness Altitude Mauna Kea Radiation Tmt Doctor

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“A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness.”

Astronomy Osha Sickness Altitude Mauna Kea Radiation Tmt Working Discovered

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“It was common to drink from plastic bottles and cans in high altitude astronomy.”

Drink Astronomy Osha Altitude Bottles Mauna Kea Tmt Plastic Cans

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“Resist the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO).”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Hawaii Telescope Resist Observatories

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“Prolonged altitude sickness generally leads to altitude diseases.”

Astronomy Osha Sickness Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Diseases Prolonged

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“One of the bad habits I developed in very high altitude astronomy was eating a bowl of free ice cream for breakfast, as the free cooked breakfast would make me feel really sickly when at the summit of Mauna Kea.”

Astronomy Ice Osha Altitude Breakfast Mauna Kea Tmt Cream Telescope

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“I developed strange intestinal problems when working at very high altitude on Mauna Kea. Intestinal pains and bouts of loose stools. Dietary experimentation lead to the conclusion that eating a diet that comprised of lots of steamed vegetables when home would reduce the symptoms.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Vegetables Kea Tmt Stools Intestinal Dietary

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“During my time at the W. M. Keck Observatory, I had formed the opinion that overworking workers was part of the company's toxic culture.”

Culture Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Toxic Tmt Keck Overworking

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“It was well known to the team of eight extreme night shift workers that group needed nine workers to prevent overwork and accumulation of excess night shift hours that could not be taken because there were not enough workers to cover for the absence.”

Absence Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Overwork Nights Shifts

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“Out of a group of eight extreme night shift workers, I was aware of four workers who appeared to be displaying symptoms of depression. That is fifty percent of the team. That number may be higher if you include those that were already on successful depression treatment and were not publicly showing the symptoms.”

Depression Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Nights Shifts

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“Daily fatigue was a problem for many very high altitude workers.”

Problem Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Fatigue Telescope Daily

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“It is common in high altitude astronomy to find astronomical observatories located on sparsely populated remote volcanic islands.”

Astronomy Islands Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Remote Volcanic

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“A particular team of world leading male astronomers that I regularly worked with engaged in extensive sordid conversations about their female counterparts that I had not witnessed in the many other astronomy teams. It was unique to their group. What was also unique to their group was the intensive all night long computer work. It was so intense that getting rest room breaks during the night was always a problem.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Computers Conversations Sordid Intensive

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“Working the astronomy night shift required sitting and staring at many computer screens for up to eighteen hours per night for several nights.”

Night Computer Screens Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Shift

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“Astronomy was field in which computers were extensively used and in some cases, multiple computers with several screens.”

Screens Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Computers Extensively

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“The era of professional astronomers keeping their workers in the dark about the toxicity of their high altitude observatories is over.”

Dark Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Toxicity Era Observatories

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“12,000 Feet: Some people will be showing serious signs and symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS). Mental impairment will be evident, often called “Summit Brain”. Immediate descent to lower altitude is recommended for these people.”

Brain Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Mental Ams 12000

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“8,000 Feet: Various people will be showing signs and symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS).”

Mountain Astronomy Osha Sickness Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Acute 8000

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“6,000 Feet: A few people will start showing signs and symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS).”

Mountain Astronomy Osha Sickness Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Acute 6000

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“Steven Magee, Chartered Electrical Engineer, was medically diagnosed with Amnestic Disorder which is characterized by short term memory loss in 2016 at the age of 46. He had worked for five years on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA from 2001 to 2006 and had noticed memory problems developing during the last years that he worked there. The condition has now progressed into a disability.”

Loss Memory Astronomy Osha Altitude Disorder Mauna Kea Tmt Amnestic

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“I moved from the day shift to the extreme night shift because I knew that they had a better acclimatization of a few hours at 9,200 feet, as opposed to the ridiculous half hour at 9,200 feet for the day shift. There was only one acclimatization from near sea level to 9,200 feet per week for the night shift workers, as they lived on the mountain for the duration of their shifts.”

Night Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Shift Extreme Acclimatization

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“It was common for sea level adapted staff to report tiredness and fatigue daily after returning to sea level from the high altitude mountain observatory.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Fatigue Telescope Observatory Tiredness

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“Over-the-counter ‪‎drug‬ ‪‎abuse‬ or addiction was a problem that I observed at Mauna Kea.”

Drug Abuse Addiction Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope

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“I never observed any prescription drugs other than medical oxygen being given to sickened Mauna Kea workers during my time on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Drugs Oxygen Telescope Prescription

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“There were no recommendations given to us about vitamin and mineral requirements in low oxygen, low pressure and high radiation environments when at high altitude by the astronomy management teams.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Requirements Telescope Vitamin Mineral

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“After several extreme very high altitude night shifts, returning to sea level and exposure to increased oxygen and bright sunlight would bring on intestinal pains and diarrhea after eating the first large meal.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Sunlight Oxygen Diarrhea Intestinal

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“It was normal to drink two pots of coffee during an extreme night shift.”

Night Coffee Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Shift

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“Not content with harassing me numerous times in a private office, an aggressive female manager started extending my extreme night shifts which would would make me really sick with shift work disorder, very high altitude sickness and workplace drug use.”

Drug Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Workplace Keck Harassing

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“I found the numerous surprise meetings with the female harassers to be very unprofessional, possibly illegal, and aimed to make sure that you had no legal support in the meetings from an employment lawyer.”

Astronomy Osha Illegal Mauna Kea Tmt Observatory Keck Unprofessional Harassers

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“Being harassed out of my job by the W. M. Keck Observatory removed me from the abnormal environmental conditions that exist at very high altitudes, which was clearly beneficial for my long term health.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Abnormal Observatory Keck Harassed

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“In 2017 I became extremely ill with flu-like symptoms and was confined to bed for a week, 2018 was filled with colon issues that resulted in a colonoscopy removing a 5mm polyp from the sigmoid colon. Intestinal pains were a feature of high altitude workplaces and I had previously seen a gastroenterologist in 2006 for extreme intestinal pains that were so severe that I was falling over with them. The removed polyp was causing malnutrition to occur and I had been high dosing with nutritional supplements to offset it. My very high altitude coworker had died from fatal colon cancer.”

Cancer Astronomy Osha Mauna Kea Tmt Fatal Colon Colonoscopy Polyp

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“I found it strange that I had a large benign tumor on the tendon sheaths of the knee joint. As the tumor grows in the joint, it damages the surrounding bone and tissues if not removed promptly. I later researched the toxicity of very high altitude facilities and realized that I was working in a very abnormal biological environment that was clearly doing strange things to workers health.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Benign Tumor Sheaths Tendon

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“The toxic female managers clearly stated the reason why they were harassing me for my resignation was because I had the audacity to use my earned sick time for essential surgery. It all seemed very illegal to me to harass a worker that was working while recovering from essential surgery.”

Astronomy Osha Illegal Mauna Kea Tmt Resignation Observatory Keck Harassing

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“I am a sacred scientist.”

Religion Scientist Sacred Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope

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“There was no history of mental illness in my family for people in their thirties, so it was very surprising when I developed it.”

Family Illness Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Mental Thirties

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“I have English genetics that reside in the USA and have worked close to Space.”

Space Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Genetics English Reside

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“The most serious health problems that I exhibited during my night shifts at the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea occurred after I started routinely working with the high powered sodium LASER guide star system.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Star Guide Sodium Laser

Author:Steven Magee

“The long term effects of exposure to high powered 20 watt sodium LASER guide stars are unlikely to be fully understood for a few more decades, as it is such a new technology and only a relatively small group of people have been exposed to it. LASER radiation safety standards appear to be where X-Ray radiation safety standards were in the 1900's.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Star Guide Sodium Laser

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“I enjoyed working with Keck Laser Engineer Robert Lafon during my night shifts. If I saw him today, I would ask him this question: Do you have any health conditions that you associate with working with 20 watt high powered LASER's and very high altitude work?”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Observatory Engineer Keck Laser

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“Working the night shift exposed me to very high powered 20 watt industrial sodium LASER light. We were told that it was harmless to the naked eye if we did not look directly into the LASER beam. Walking into the observatory dome being illuminated by the bright scattered orange laser light was a common occurrence.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Observatory Keck Sodium Laser

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“Trying to get a good sleep at high altitude during the daytime between extreme night shifts generally required sleeping tablets.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Sleeping Tablets Shifts

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“The longer I worked extreme night shifts, the less effective energy drinks became. Eventually I stopped drinking them as they would have no effect on me. I would drink one and go to sleep when home during the daytime.”

Energy Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Drinks Shifts

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“The most stimulants I have taken in life were during my extreme night shifts to keep me awake.”

Night Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Stimulants Shifts

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“Night shift workers typically suffer from solar radiation deficiency sickness.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Radiation Tmt Deficiency Solar Shifts

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