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“After I started working extreme night shifts, I began to think that someone was in the telescope control room with me. I would look for the person many times and would never find them. I eventually stopped looking for the person and accepted that it was my oxygen starved mind playing tricks on me in a very abnormal environment.”

Environment Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Oxygen Abnormal Starved

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“High altitude observatories are commonly on remote mountain tops that isolate workers from society.”

Society Mountain Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Isolate Remote

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“My observations of high altitude observatory workers is that they seem to have elevated levels of behavioral problems that eventually progresses into ill health, disease and premature death for some.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Problems Mauna Kea Tmt Observations Behavioral Elevated

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“Inhalation of solvents in a 40% oxygen deficient atmosphere at very high altitudes is probably not a good idea.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Oxygen Deficient Inhalation Solvents

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“We never used any form of respiratory protection when working with solvents at very high altitude atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.”

Protection Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Working Respiratory Solvents

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“We routinely worked with a variety of solvents at very high altitude atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.”

Astronomy Variety Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Worked Routinely Solvents

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“During almost a decade of working in high altitude astronomy with liquid cryogenics and industrial gas, I have no recollection of ever being sent on an industry recognized training course in the safe handling and use of them.”

Industry Training Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Course Recognized

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“At the age of 46 I was diagnosed with lung issues.”

Issues Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Lung Diagnosed

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“I have memories from my time in high altitude astronomy of being euphoric and giddy after discharging large amounts of industrial gas into the indoor environment. The effects would last hours and resembled being drunk and intoxicated.”

Astronomy Drunk Osha Gas Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Intoxicated Industrial

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“I would run down like a battery during several extreme night shifts atop the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.”

Night Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Extreme Shifts Battery

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“Magee’s Disease is also known as High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) and is a form of High Altitude Disease (HAD).”

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“Magee’s disease is a high altitude commuting disease.”

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“When discharging industrial gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy, we never wore protective breathing respirators that fed us oxygenated air at above the legally required 19.5% oxygen levels.”

Environment Astronomy Osha Gas Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Industrial Discharging

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“I had a mysterious prolonged UTI of unknown cause in 2007 that all medical UTI testing proved negative. A year later in 2008 my doctor was stating ‘He has a plethora of multi-system complaints with no specificity.’ I had been working at an astronomical facility that used a large amount of mercury and had been handling rubber filled mercury systems with no personal protective equipment, such as gloves and respirators. The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) where I worked provided no industry recognized training in the safe handling of mercury.”

Astronomy Osha Mauna Kea Tmt Mercury Observatory Peak Kitt Uti

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“In 2019 it had emerged that I was having chronic fatigue reactions to over the counter medications and to prescription medications. I have a history of five years of regular company drug use atop the biologically toxic summit of Mauna Kea. This is called ‘Drug Intolerance’.”

Drug Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Intolerance Prescription Medications

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“Company drug use was common in very high altitude workers.”

Common Company Drug Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope

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“While I was aware of three workers that had disclosed their gender issues during their time in high altitude astronomy, I was not aware of how many more were staying silent about it.”

Issues Silent Gender Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope

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“High altitude astronomy was the only field that I worked in where workers had changed gender during their time there. Two males became females and one female that had been previously attracted to males later became attracted to females. I had not heard of this in other fields that I had worked in.”

Changed Workers Gender Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope

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“We would see the effects of cosmic rays in images from the telescope electronic camera’s.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Rays Mauna Kea Cosmic Tmt Camera Electronic

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“I am on the right side of the #WeAreMaunaKea protests.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Right Protests Side Wearemaunakea

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“Developing the diagnosis and treatment for Magee’s Disease has turned me into a world leading expert on High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).”

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“Routine preventative 5 year interval Colonoscopies should be mandatory for all very high altitude workers, regardless of their age.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Routine Mauna Kea Tmt Mandatory Preventative Colonoscopies

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“My job was called “Summit Lead” when on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea. A few of us would rotate through this position during the weekdays, as we only worked part time on the summit. One of the other “Summit Lead’s” died from fatal gastrointestinal disease. He had spent far more time on the summit than I ever did and had accumulated much larger biologically toxic exposures.”

Disease Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Summit Lead Gastrointestinal

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“In 2018 at the age of 48, many years after the onset of of various gastrointestinal problems while working at very high altitude atop Mauna Kea, I had a colonoscopy that removed a 5mm polyp from the sigmoid colon.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Gastrointestinal Colon Colonoscopy Sigmoid

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“While working extreme night shifts, I would take digestive supplements to offset gastrointestinal problems that would develop at the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Supplements Shifts Gastrointestinal Digestive

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“The organs that have been identified as having issues in very high altitude worker Steven Magee are: 1. Brain. 2. Lungs. 3. Heart. 4. Skin. 5. Liver. 6. Bones. 7. Gastrointestinal system. 8. Kidneys 9. Vitamin B12 & iron absorption problems are currently being diagnosed and may involve the stomach, intestines, liver & blood. 10. Hormonal problems that involve various organ systems of the body.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Hormones Absorption Vitamin Organ

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“I had been to the endocrinologist in 2017 due to my feet changing from size 9 to size 10 in just a few months. I had to throw out all of my shoes and buy new ones. I was told that there was nothing wrong with my hormones. The medical report shows they did not test my DHEA hormone levels, which I later showed a positive response to.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Hormones Dhea Endocrinologist

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“Outdoor sunlight avoidance for several months is recommended after receiving abnormally high radiation exposures.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Radiation Tmt Sunlight Avoidance Abnormally

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“A person exhibiting confusion at high altitude will commonly forget to take oxygen to alleviate it.”

Forget Astronomy Confusion Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Oxygen Alleviate

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“There were numerous times that I was trying and failing to shut down the world’s largest telescopes at the end of the night shift. I would eventually have to leave it to the day shift, as my confusion from prolonged exposure to abnormal environmental conditions was too severe to complete the task.”

Conditions Environmental Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Severe Abnormal

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“When diagnosing sickened high altitude workers, you must remember that altitude diseases are just part of the equation and the various toxic occupational exposures must be factored in.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Toxic Tmt Occupational Exposures Factored

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“Cosmic rays are very hard to detect at sea level, you have to go to high altitudes to reliably observe them.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Rays Mauna Kea Cosmic Tmt Observe Detect

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“The very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea is a bad place to be during a solar radiation storm.”

Storm Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Radiation Tmt Bad Solar

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“The only difference between a very high altitude worker and a radiation worker is that there is a government compensation program in place for sickened radiation workers.”

Government Program Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Radiation Tmt Compensation

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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.”

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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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