“I find it very concerning that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were prevented from visiting Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO).” HealthSafetyAdministrationOshaVisitingObservatoryOccupationalPeakNationalKitt Author:Steven Magee
“When I reflect on how astronomy management teams collectively damaged my health, I concluded that they were able to do so because the corporate government facilitated it.” GovernmentHealthSafetyAstronomyOshaMaunaKeaPeakKitt Author:Steven Magee
“I am researching why you would not allow Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on site.” AstronomyOshaSiteNotObservatoryOnPeakResearchingKittNoao Author:Steven Magee
“I worked at three high altitude professional astronomy sites. My ranking for the biological toxicity of those sites is: 1) Mauna Kea. 2) Kitt Peak. 3) Roque de los Muchachos.” AstronomyAltitudeMaunaKeaProfessionalToxicityPeakKittRoqueMuchachos Author:Steven Magee
“My body contains the dirty secrets of professional astronomy.” BodyAstronomyDirtySecretsMaunaKeaProfessionalPeakKittContains Author:Steven Magee
“Professional astronomers were successful in preventing Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from visiting Kitt Peak National Observatory, however it is highly unlikely that they will be successful in building the biologically toxic 1.4 billion dollar Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.” AstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtHawaiiTelescopePeakKitt Author:Steven Magee
“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.” AstronomyOshaMaunaKeaTmtMercuryObservatoryPeakKittUti Author:Steven Magee
“My health was severely damaged by astronomers.” AstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtTelescopePeakKeckKitt Author:Steven Magee
“If you are a sea level adapted human you should avoid being a high altitude astronomers laboratory rat for the protection of your long term health and safety.” AstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtTelescopePeakKeckKitt Author:Steven Magee
“When dealing with mysterious sickness, I advise people to look at what their coworkers were dying from for clues. My coworkers were were dying from suicide, gastrointestinal disease, heart disease and brain disease.” ScienceDiseaseSuicideAstronomyMaunaKeaHawaiiTelescopePeakKitt Author:Steven Magee
“Over time, it became clear that my invisible friend and the Hawaiian visions were arising out of erratic low blood oxygen levels, company supplied drugs, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, abnormal electromagnetic radiation exposures, very high altitude damage, sleep apnea, bruxism and food intolerance.” ScienceSafetyAstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaMentalPeakKitt Author:Steven Magee
“I am a survivor of mercury poisoning.” DiseaseAstronomyPoisonSurvivorMercuryObservatoryOccupationalPeakNationalKitt Author:Steven Magee
“The biggest mistake that I made in management was not recognizing workplace poisoning of the staff that I supervised.” MistakeManagementAstronomyPoisonStaffWorkplaceBigRecognizeKittSupervise Author:Steven Magee
“The only workplace that prevented a health and safety visit from occurring during my career was professional astronomy. They were adamant that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were not going to be allowed to visit the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, USA. They were successful in canceling the scheduled OSHA visit and the result was I became much sicker as time progressed while working there. Part of that sickness was suspected mercury poisoning.” SafetyAstronomyOshaArizonaPoisoningMercuryObservatoryPeakNationalKitt Book:Magee’s Disease Source: Magee’s Disease
“I made the mistake of taking a past girlfriend up to Kitt Peak National Observatory to fill the instrument cryostat with liquid nitrogen. It was one of the largest cryostats at the facility and took a long time to fill. The entire time there was a huge plume of cold nitrogen gas coming out of it, visible for several feet. After we were finished, she started complaining of feeling sick to the point that she thought she was going to vomit. It lasted for several hours. A few years later she started showing signs and symptoms of fatigue and depression and was being medically treated for it. I always felt guilty that I exposed her to the nitrogen gas, as I had no idea how toxic it was because I had never been sent on an OSHA approved cryogenic liquid training course.” SickGirlfriendOshaLiquidObservatoryPeakNitrogenNationalKittCryostat Author:Steven Magee
“By the time I left Kitt Peak National Observatory, I had formed the opinion there was a cover-up culture there.” TimeCultureOpinionOshaObservatoryCover UpPeakNationalKittFormed Author:Steven Magee
“The sickest high altitude workers that I encountered in professional astronomy were at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, USA.” WorkersAstronomyOshaAltitudeProfessionalObservatoryPeakNationalKittSickest Author:Steven Magee
“You never fully recover from mercury poisoning.” AstronomyOshaNeverPoisoningMercuryObservatoryPeakRecoverKittNoao Author:Steven Magee
“The biologically toxic field of high altitude astronomy was the only employer that sent me on a ‘How to deal with unacceptable employee behavior’ management course.” BehaviorAstronomyPoisonOshaToxicTmtMercuryPeakKittUnacceptable Author:Steven Magee
“Despite being required to work on mercury systems, the management team never sent me on an industry recognized mercury training course and I ended up with nasty mercury poisoning.” SafetyTrainAstronomyPoisonOshaMercuryObservatoryPeakNationalKitt Author:Steven Magee
“What I thought were poor performing employees were actually poisoned employees.” PoorSafetyAstronomyPoisonOshaEmployeePeakPerformKitt Author:Steven Magee
“I had taken an obsolete astronomical spectral gas tube home from the observatory for use as an ornament. Many years later I broke the specialized gas tube in the home. In the days afterwards I started experiencing sickness that I had been reporting to my doctor during working at the high altitude observatory. My notes state: During the last few days my bones are starting to ache again and nerves are twitching in my body and face like they were when I worked at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO)...headaches...insomnia...zoning out...tired...forgetful...confusion. 5 days earlier I had been atop Kitt Peak mountain and 4 days later the sheriff disconnected my electricity.” AstronomyOshaGasObsoleteSheriffAstronomicalPeakKittSpectralTube Author:Steven Magee
“I was mercury poisoned at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO).” SpaceSafetyAstronomyPoisonOshaMercuryObservatoryPeakNationalKitt Author:Steven Magee
“The thing that most shocked me about astronomy in the Ivy League was how run down and poorly functioning their telescopes were.” SafetyAstronomyLeagueOshaShockedTelescopeIvyObservatoryPeakKitt Author:Steven Magee
“Poison my team and I will hunt you down with science.” ScienceTeamAstronomyPoisonMercuryObservatoryHuntPeakNationalKitt Author:Steven Magee
“Mercury poison me and we will have a problem.” ProblemAstronomyPoisonToxicMercuryObservatoryPeakMetalNationalKitt Author:Steven Magee
“When I was hired to work at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), it was not disclosed to me that the site was being hit by powerful sonic booms from military supersonic aircraft that would shake the buildings. I had noticed that there seemed to be a significant number of staff that were having heart issues and some appeared to have had heart attacks and died prematurely. I later discovered during researching my own heart issues that it was a suspected effect of exposure to sonic booms. Regular exposure to sonic booms from military supersonic jet aircraft is suspected of increasing the incidence of vibroacoustic disease, a thickening of heart tissue which may lead to heart arrhythmia or premature death.” MilitaryAstronomyAirplaneObservatoryPeakNationalKittSupersonicBoomsSonic Author:Steven Magee
“Kitt Peak National Observatory was infested with rodents. There were so many that rodent traps were in daily use there.” TrapsManyObservatoryDailyRodentsPeakNationalKittInfestedRodent Author:Steven Magee
“Roman", Iris whispered tenderly. She rose on her toes and framed his face. She wiped his tears, and he let them fall until he could see her again, vividly. And he tought,” RomanKittIrisDivine Rivals Book:Divine Rivals Source: Divine Rivals
“When I worked in high altitude astronomy, the worst sickness that I experienced was not at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea Observatory (MKO) in Hawaii, it was at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona at the much lower altitude of 6,875 feet. Due to my very high altitude experiences, I knew that this strange sickness was not primarily caused by altitude sickness and was most likely Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). After reporting various behavioral problems in all of the staff to the management team, my contract was not renewed, I was unable to legally protect the health and safety of the workers that I was responsible for, troubleshooting of this environmental problem stopped and I left in a sickened state for my next position before I could find the root cause.” ProblemTeamWorstBuildingStrangeHealthProtectSickResponsibleManagementSafetyWorkersAstronomySicknessAltitudeProblemsMaunaKeaStaffHawaiiSummitHighExperiencesArizonaStateObservatoryCauseAstrophysicsVeryRootAstronomicalPeakWorkedAstronomerNationalSickenedKittContractAstrobiologyAstrosociobiologyLegallyBehavioralSyndromeTroubleshootingSbsKpnoMko Author:Steven Magee