Key Middle School NIOSH Report and Update PDF Print E-mail

Alert! The Center for School Mold Help has obtained the NIOSH* communications regarding Francis Scott Key Middle School, where hundreds of staff and students became ill, in Houston, TX. 

You will read:

1. Letter from NIOSH, Oct. 17, 2007, to Brad Bailey, Risk Manager for HISD (Houston Independent School District)

2. IEQ Issues: An electronic informational document sent to HISD which explains problems with indoor environments, including descriptions of building problems and related illnesses, and the NIOSH investigation approach.

3. The NIOSH Final Report for Key Middle School, in the form of a detailed letter, sent to Brad Bailey, Risk Manager for HISD, dated March 27, 2008 (11 pages, in .pdf).

NIOSH Key HHE Part One

NIOSH Key HHE Part Two

NIOSH Key HHE Part Three 

Also: Exclusive! Key Middle School Interview with Gayle Fallon, Houston Federation of Teachers Union President **(Dec., 2007)

*National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, a branch of both the CDC and OSHA

**This information is available to SMH subscribers


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1. Letter from NIOSH, Oct. 17, 2007, to Brad Bailey, Risk Manager for HISD (Houston Independent School District)

2. IEQ Issues: An electronic informational document sent to HISD which explains problems with indoor environments, including descriptions of building problems and related illnesses, and the NIOSH investigation approach.

3. The NIOSH Final Report for Key Middle School, in the form of a detailed letter, sent to Brad Bailey, Risk Manager for HISD, dated March 27, 2008 (11 pages, in .pdf).

NIOSH Key HHE Part One

NIOSH Key HHE Part Two

NIOSH Key HHE Part Three

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(April 16, 2008)

The children and staff returned to Key Middle School at the end of March, as the school was opened before construction was complete, and reportedly, without the use of mold remediation techniques. There are a number of observers who have told us, and the media, that Key Middle School is still very unhealthy and is making people sick.

The Center for School Mold Help is very concerned for the welfare of these students and staff and call for the still-contaminated school buildings to be closed, for the safety of the occupants. Perhaps they might be relocated, on site, to healthy portables brought in by this school district. We feel very badly for the students and staff who wanted to go back to their own school, after spending many months under cramped, unsuitable educational conditions, wanting their home school to be safe. We feel this is not too much to ask (SMH).

 

 

Read articles posted to this site about Key's school mold problems!

1. Students Return To Key Despite Concerns
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
...m CDT March 26, 2008 UPDATED: 2:12 pm CDT March 26, 2008 HOUSTON -- Students returned to Francis Scott Key Middle School on Wednesday after the campus was closed for months for renovatio...

 

2. Pastors Make 16 Requests For Key Middle School
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
Pastors Make 16 Requests For Key Middle School http://www.click2houston.com/news/15732007/detail.html POSTED: 9:56 am CDT March 28, 2008 UPDATED: 10:00 am CDT March 28, 2008 H

 

3. Key Middle School declared safe for classes
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
... that led to twenty emergency room trips by teachers and illnesses among school visitors, parents, and students. Key Middle School ready to reopen http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou080325...

 

4. Key Middle School still unhealthy, says Rep. Lee
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
...e, KRTK tv) Despite the above, Houston Independent School District plans to send the students and teachers back to Key Middle School on March 25th. We hope those teachers and students whose health w...

 

5. Houston, TX: Key Middle School to reopen Mar. 25
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
...d staff to an unhealthy school, we have heard these words before, followed by over 20 trips to the emergency room by Key Middle School staff, in the Fall of 2007. The district denies mold problem...

 

...half of their children and many other children in HISD. All the parents named in the lawsuit have children attending Key Middle School, and many other parents throughout the district are seeking to be...

 

7. Minority families sue Houston school district
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
...zers purposefully staged their Monday announcement at New Mt. Calvary Baptist Church because it is a few blocks from Key Middle School. The district temporarily closed the school in late September aft...

 

8. School's air-quality issues costly for Houston district
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
... at a Houston middle school have filed workers' compensation claims. The claims cite ailments the staff members at Key Middle School blame on the building's air quality. In all, 88 employees of th...

 

Congresswoman Wants Key Middle School Closed Permanently http://www.click2houston.com/news/14513816/detail.html POSTED: 11:40 am CST November 5, 2007 UPDATED: 5:46 pm CST November 5, 2007 H

 

...rs For the Interview with Gayle Fallon, click Read more, below.  A serious mold infestation at Key Middle School (KMS) sickened scores of teachers & students through October ...

 

 

  Key Middle School / KRIV-TV Houston FOX 26 News Read the TV news report, watch the video(s) of this and 6 additional TV news stories about Key Middle School Mold Click he

 

13. 80% of Key staff file workers' comp claims
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
"The controversy over possible contaminants at Key Middle School has cost taxpayers more than $127,000 since August, and the tab could rise as employees incur more medical expenses that they blam

 

14. Mold at Key confirmed, but HISD taking action, CDC says
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
...Help, for supporting her union members when they became seriously ill from the dangerous environmental conditions at Key Middle School. This is her comment, "gayle2415 wrote: HISD's press rel...

 

15. CDC finds mold at Houston school with air quality concerns
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
...ted getting sick. In a letter released Thursday, two air-quality experts did not address whether the mold found at Key Middle School was unsafe or could have caused sickness reported by employees an...

 

16. Houston Union: 'Mold Infestation' Found At School
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
 Union uses tests to document dangerous mold at Key Middle School, Houston, TX, that HISD (school district) denied. Union: 'Mold Infestation' Found At School http://www.click2houston.com/educat

 

...16/07"...Members of the Houston Federation of Teachers (HFT) say they have test results that prove mold in Key Middle School could have made staff members sick."(Rucks Russell / 11 News...

 

18. Is mold a problem in HISD schools?
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
A tour of Key Middle School, Houston, TX on September 17, 2007, for U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston (r), by Key Middle School Principal Mable Caleb (l) photo: Steve Ueckert: Houston

 

19. Tidwell mold evacuation: pics and docs
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
...--------------------------------------------------------------------- We've been hearing so much about problems at Key Middle School in HISD. Today, the focus is on Tidwell elementary in the North F...

 

20. TX: Tidwell school evacuates due to mold
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
...e complaints of illness recounted by employees at Tidwell are similar to those recently reported by staff members at Key Middle School in the Houston school district. After numerous complaints from ...

 

21. TX:Houston area moldy school closes early
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
...laints of illness recounted by Sweat are similar to those reported by staff members at the Houston school district's Key Middle School, a few miles from Tidwell. After numerous complaints from teacher...

 

22. All Key Middle School, Houston, TX articles
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
 Read these from the bottom to the top of these stories, to follow the course of the mold story on Key Middle School in TX, where in Aug. and Sept., 2007, a score of sick employees went by ambula

 

 Houston Independent School District underestimated the problems at Key Middle School ... so an official statement reads. We have a very hard time understanding how, when people are being taken t

 

 (Key Middle School) HOUSTON — After inspecting a middle school where dozens of employees and students have reported being sick, an expert with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said

 

... acting soon enough. when so many people were getting ill.  Sept. 20, 2007, 7:53PM Lacks initiative: Too many Key Middle School teachers and staff got sick before HISD acted http://www.chron....

 

"Key Middle School, in Houston, TX, where up to 20 people have become extremely ill, is set to close this week. Read the article, view the video and pictures ... "  (SMH note: Key Middl

 

In Houston, a Key Middle School tour involving U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, prompts a call for EPA and CDC review of the testing, with continuing, major school IAQ concerns. The princ

 

 Sept. 17, 2007, 8:45AM No answers yet to illness mystery at Key Middle School HISD, union still at odds even as inspections find nothing significant By ERICKA MELLON Copyright 2007 Ho

 

...todians have suffered from severe headaches, chest pains, breathing problems and vomiting while inside Francis Scott Key Middle School. Last Wednesday, several teachers were taken by ambulance to a ho...
 
Pleas to close Key Middle School are going unheeded, at present, in Houston Independent School District, even after many students and staff became ill from an as yet undetermined exposu

...ATED: 9:55 am CDT September 15, 2007 HOUSTON -- For two weeks, teachers and custodians have been saying mold at Key Middle School is making them ill. Some have been taken away from the school by ...
 
...to send us your comment to be reviewed for publication! 1 SMH visitor comment on this article, see below  Two Key Middle School teachers taken to hospital http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...

37. TX:Report says school safe, others disagree
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
 Key Middle School safe from mold, HISD says Houston Chronicle, Houston, TX* Sept. 4, 2007 By MATT STILES http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5104783.html Report on Key M
 
39. Houston, TX: Unions protest mold
(School Mold, State-by-State/Texas)
...on feed  Print  Subscribe NOW  Comments  Recommend  RESOURCES   Report on Key Middle School by ICU Environmental, Heath and Safety Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3...
 
41. 7 Custodians Ill After Cleaning Mold...
(Getting Help/For Administrators)
... cleaning a northeast Houston school, officials told KPRC Local 2 Saturday. Mold was found in an annex building at Key Middle School on Thursday after two workers fell ill and were hospitalized. C...
 
44. Requesting a NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation
(Getting Help/Getting Started)
...led out to inspect a school in Houston, TX, by the Congressional representative for the area. Read about this in the Key Middle School articles (enter Key Middle School in a site search, or go to Info...
 
47. School Mold Forum
(Resources/Copy of School Mold Discussions)
...hat events Upload documents and photos and much more!   Example of a recent discussion:   Key Middle School Mold (TX) -  school mold destroys immune systems (...

48. SMH Ideas for Parents
(Getting Help/For Parents)
...r self-testing contradicts the report of "safe, healthy buildings" districts may have obtained. Read about Key Middle School (Houston, TX) on this site. 8. Remediation: If the school has m...
 
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