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“I now suffer from hearing loss and wonder how much high altitude work contributed to this condition?”

Loss Hearing Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Suffer

Author:Steven Magee

“I was diagnosed with absence seizures after a decade of high altitude work up to 13,796 feet.”

Absence Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Seizures Diagnosed

Author:Steven Magee

“Am I insane or am I just in outer Space?”

Space Astronomy Insane Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Outer

Author:Steven Magee

“After 6 weeks of the 2019 #WeAreMaunaKea protests, 245595 supported the cause.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Protests Wearemaunakea Supported

Author:Steven Magee

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

Issues Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Lung Diagnosed

Author:Steven Magee

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

Disease Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Commuting Magee S

Author:Steven Magee

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

Common Company Drug Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

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

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Professional Irresponsibility Willful

Author:Steven Magee

“Resist the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO).”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Hawaii Telescope Resist Observatories

Author:Steven Magee

“Prolonged altitude sickness generally leads to altitude diseases.”

Astronomy Osha Sickness Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Diseases Prolonged

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

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

Problem Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Fatigue Telescope Daily

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

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

Night Coffee Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Shift

Author:Steven Magee

“I am a sacred scientist.”

Religion Scientist Sacred Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

“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

Author:Steven Magee

“I was diagnosed with seizures at age of forty five.”

Absence Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Seizures Diagnosed

Author:Steven Magee

“When I think of astronomy, I think of dangerous incompetents.”

Dangerous Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Think Telescope Incompetents

Author:Steven Magee

“I am a radiation mutant.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Radiation Tmt Telescope Mutant Keck

Author:Steven Magee

“I really dislike the hiring managers that did not disclose the known toxicity of their hazardous workplaces to me.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Dislike Kea Tmt Telescope Hiring Hazardous

Author:Steven Magee

“Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) is a classic example of the broken Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).”

Example Broken Astronomy Classic Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope

Author:Steven Magee

“The problem with worker contamination by mercury is that the workers may cross contaminate a wide variety of items, such as computers, furniture, offices, tools, workshops, cars, restrooms, their personal items, their own homes, their partner, and so on.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Mercury Cross Contamination

Author:Steven Magee

“There were numerous large glass bottles of mercury stored at high altitude astronomical facilities and it was used in the telescope mirror support systems. It seemed to be an uncontrolled substance that was accessible to anyone at the facility.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Mercury Uncontrolled Stored

Author:Steven Magee

“Reflecting on my time at the 2006 to 2008 observatory, I started to lose my voice in management meetings after extensively handling the rubber mercury mirror support system and the large glass jars of on-site stored mercury with my bare hands and no respiratory protection.”

Voice Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Poisoning Mercury

Author:Steven Magee

“In 2019 it had emerged that I had been mercury poisoned while working in high altitude astronomy.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Mercury Poisoned Emerged

Author:Steven Magee

“I was attending the doctor from 2006 through to 2008 for strange skin sensations, tingling/pains/numbness in my head, face, hands and legs, fatigue, stress, gastrointestinal problems, breathing difficulties and chest tightness/pains when exercising while working at an astronomical observatory that had a large amount of mercury stored on site. In 2009 it had progressed to include heart issues, fatigue, weakness and dizziness and I suggested to my doctor that my symptoms matched Eosinophilia and may be Lyme disease encephalitis or multiple sclerosis. Many years later in 2018 I showed a positive response to mercury chelation therapy.”

Astronomy Therapy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Mercury Chelation

Author:Steven Magee

“Mercury was in use in high altitude astronomy.”

Mirrors Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Poisoning Mercury

Author:Steven Magee

“At the age of 45, I started to experience severe pains in one foot that progressed into both feet as I aged. I do wonder if it is the long term effects of high altitude peripheral edema.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Foot Peripheral Edema

Author:Steven Magee

“I am looking forward to attending the bulldozing ceremony for the removal of all very high altitude manned facilities atop the known biologically toxic summit of Mauna Kea.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Ceremony Telescope Removal Bulldozing

Author:Steven Magee

“Mauna Kea Sickness (MKS) needs to be thoroughly researched and characterized by the medical profession before any more very high altitude workplaces are built on the summit. It is likely that once Mauna Kea Sickness is well characterized, all of the manned summit facilities would need to be removed on the grounds of health and safety.”

Profession Medical Astronomy Osha Sickness Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope

Author:Steven Magee

“The very high altitude Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are unsafe for sea level adapted humans to work in. They always have been hazardous to health and always will be.”

Sea Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Unsafe Hazardous

Author:Steven Magee

“Mauna Kea Sickness (MKS) has cost me close to one million dollars in lost earnings. Long term that figure is expected to rise to four million dollars by age sixty five.”

Astronomy Osha Sickness Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Million Earnings

Author:Steven Magee

“There is a need to set up a compensation fund for Mauna Kea Sickness (MKS) for damaged employees, their families and their survivors.”

Astronomy Osha Fund Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Compensation Telescope Damaged

Author:Steven Magee

“I observed many employees displaying Mauna Kea Sickness (MKS) on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Summit Telescope Employees Observed

Author:Steven Magee

“The State of Hawaii are facilitating the construction of the biologically toxic 1.4 billion dollar Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop the sacred Mauna Kea mountain while conveniently ignoring the unsafe workplace for the very high altitude TMT workers, which is illegal under USA law.”

Law Astronomy Osha Altitude Illegal Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Unsafe

Author:Steven Magee

“The Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are holding back important biological research into High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) by not publicly documenting the illnesses, diseases and causes of deaths in all of their very high altitude workers.”

Death Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Diseases Illnesses

Author:Steven Magee

“Two weeks after the petition to shut down the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) was started, it had 189,393 signatures.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Shut Started Petition

Author:Steven Magee

“The international astronomy community are making it clear that they intend to keep on inducing High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) into their very high altitude workers.”

Community International Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Inducing

Author:Steven Magee

“The world is watching the international astronomy community build a known biologically toxic telescope atop a sacred Hawaiian mountain.”

World International Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Watching

Author:Steven Magee