From the book: CharcoalRemedies.com, by John Dinsley, pages 131 to 133:
AIR-BORNE CHEMICALS
The following true story, with a little modification, could fit a war scenario.
The original letter was addressed to Enos Yoder:
I am a certified pipe welder who lives in Columbus, Ohio. In 1994, I was working in a refinery in Lima, Ohio. I was working second shift, from 6 P.M. to 6 A.M., seven days a week.
On the night of October 14th, while I was on my way to work, the news report said rain was expected after midnight. About 1 A.M. a fine mist of rain started to fall. About fifteen minutes later a safety man at the refinery came running up. He told the eighteen men in my crew to report to the designated safe tent, and to wait for further instructions.
At 5 A.M. while we were still sitting in the tent, a bus pulled up. The supervisors came in and said that we were all going to the hospital for blood tests. The tests would be sent to the company and paid for in full by the contractor. What we thought was rain was actually benzene spraying out of a tower 175 feet in the air. A half mile away, a refinery employee had accidentally turned the wrong valve, and exposed us to one of the most carcinogenic substances in the United States. Benzene affects the eyesight, nervous system, kidneys, and liver.
When we arrived at the hospital we were all given blood tests. These tests revealed that all eighteen of us had dangerous levels of benzene in our blood systems. The doctors at the hospital explained that it would take up to a year for the benzene to leave our systems, and the damage it would do would vary from blindness to liver failure to kidney failure, and highly possible to death. There was no known treatment to remove the benzene from the blood. That morning there were eighteen very scared men, who had come from all over the United States to earn a living for their families. Their lives were now being given an expiration date of five to seven years.
The next day we were all laid off. The company said they were sorry for what had happened, and wished us the best of Luck. Because of my fulfilling relationship with Christ, that day I prayed. Immediately, the name of a man I had visited a year earlier came to my mind. When I got home, I called Enos. He said to just come on up. I did, and he gave me a bag of charcoal capsules.
After taking the charcoal capsules, I made an appointment with my family doctor. I told him about the benzene and asked for another blood test. When the test came back a week later, it showed that I had no benzene in my system. The doctor said that my case had caused him to spend a lot of time reading about benzene and, according to all he had read, there was no way the body could rid itself of benzene in less than twelve months. He said that the lab knew this also, and they would give me another test for free. Those results also came back, NO BENZENE in my body!!!
About six months later, the contractor refused to pay for any testing done to me. This led to a court action, because federal law, workmen's compensation, and O.C.C.A. regulations said the contractor was fully responsible.
Approximately three years later I went to court. Upon arriving, I met a man who was scheduled to appear in court at the same time as I was. After introductions, it turned out that he was with a law firm representing seventeen men who had filed a class action suit due to benzene poisoning in Lima, Ohio in 1994. The court did not know that I was not part of that lawsuit, and had scheduled me at the same time in the same courtroom. The attorney explained to me that two of his clients suffered from blindness, four were on kidney dialysis, and all were being treated by a neurological psychiatrist. The lawyer was amazed that my benzene level had been more than twice that of any of his clients, yet I had no health problems whatsoever. He said that it was nothing short of a miracle for me.
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Transcribed by John DiNardo
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