With over two decades of experience providing emergency mercury clean-up services in Lancaster, PA, AEG Environmental specializes in serving any facility needs for clients in various settings.
Chemicals can become hazardous when people don’t manage it as they should. With over two decades of experience providing emergency mercury clean-up services in Lancaster, PA, AEG Environmental specializes in serving any facility needs for clients in various settings. In particular, our staff is meticulous in our approach to handling mercury spills and mercury cleanup.
If your business is searching for emergency mercury clean-up services in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, please don’t hesitate to contact AEG Environmental at our 24-hour emergency response number 410-494-7587 or toll-free at 1-877-876-1100.
COMMERCIAL EMERGENCY MERCURY CLEAN-UP SERVICES IN LANCASTER
Does your firm handle or work around mercury? When working with mercury, you or your team will attempt to hold it carefully to avoid any spills. Unfortunately, there is always the likelihood of a spill occurring at your site because it can be a slippery metal. The mercury will convert into microbeads once it hits the ground from a higher place. Also, these microbeads develop a vapor, allowing other individuals to inhale it. As a result, the microbeads may harm people’s immune systems if they inhale it. Consider AEG Environmental your go-to for commercial emergency mercury clean-up services in Lancaster, Pennsylvania!
HEALTH RISKS OF MERCURY IN THE WORKPLACE
Even though some forms of mercury are more hazardous than others, all are toxic. Depending on the type and amount, mercury exposure can damage the kidneys, nervous system, liver, and immune system. Even in small amounts, mercury exposure might trigger serious health problems. People can be exposed to mercury by directly touching it, eating contaminated fish, or inhaling mercury vapors that are odorless and invisible.
If you touch mercury, a small amount might pass through your skin, but not typically enough to harm you. In particular, mercury is harmful primarily when inhaled in the vapors released into the air when a spill occurs or a container opens. Whether mercury exposure will harm a person’s health depends on multiple factors, such as:
- The type of mercury
- How much mercury was there?
- How long was the person exposed to mercury?
- What was the route of exposure to mercury? By consuming, breathing, injecting, or touching?
- What are the person’s characteristics, such as age and health status?
SYMPTOMS OF MERCURY POISONING
After a mercury spill has occurred in the workplace, make sure to check your employees for the following symptoms of mercury poisoning:
- Vision, speech, hearing, and walking impairment
- Uncoordinated movement
- Skin rashes
- Muscle weakness
- Numbness in feet, hands, and sometimes around the mouth
- Mood swings, mental disturbances, or memory loss
Anyone who has concerns about mercury exposure must consult a physician. Doctors might be able to identify exposure and health risks.
RESIDENTIAL EMERGENCY MERCURY CLEAN-UP SERVICES IN LANCASTER
Mercury is a complex substance to clean off surfaces. Unfortunately, the risks increase once mercury is in microbead form. Thus, it can be seriously harmful to manage the cleanup. Because high levels of mercury vapor in your typical breathing zone are dangerous, AEG Environmental works diligently to lower them for people primarily sensitive to exposure, including children, the elderly, and pregnant women. Everything used during the cleanup procedure must be managed as mercury-contaminated unless you are positive it has not come into contact with mercury. This is why hiring and receiving residential mercury vapor removal services from AEG Environmental is ideal. Our experts have extensive experience clearing out any mercury vapor your residential property might have.
HOW CAN FAMILIES MINIMIZE THEIR RISK WHEN HANDLING MERCURY?
- Seek for and follow state and national fish consumption advisories.
- Consider not purchasing products that contain mercury such as thermometers. Instead, buy a digital thermometer. The amount of mercury in thermometers is typically minimal but enough to harm you.
- Carefully handle, and adequately dispose of or recycle products that contain mercury. Mercury is used in grandfather clocks, gas regulators, thermostats, mercury relays, blood pressure monitors, mercury switches, etc.
- Avoid utilizing a vacuum to clean up a mercury spill because you it can release it into the air.
- Properly dispose of older medications that contain mercury.
- Retain all mercury away from children and pets.
EMERGENCY MERCURY CLEAN-UPS IN LANCASTER
Mercury has been a helpful element throughout history. The most prevalent way people in the U.S. are exposed to the substance is by consuming fish containing a form of mercury – methylmercury. Other exposures might result from using or disposing of products containing mercury. For instance, many companies involved with burning coal, household trash, and mining ore deposits may benefit from mercury vapor removal services. If you ever believe your business may require mercury spill response services in Lancaster or nearby communities, AEG Environmental is ready to help you. Our environmental firm assists many industries, including:
- Hospitals
- Medical Clinics
- Homes & Apartments
- Utilities
- Schools
- Ships
- Government Facilities
- Laboratories
- Vehicles
- Historic Buildings
- Recycling Centers
OTHER AREAS WE SERVE
AEG Environmental is your trusted mercury cleanup and removal expert. We have decades of mercury cleanup and vapor removal experience in various locations. Our team proudly extends our services beyond Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ensuring that our expertise in mercury vapor removal is available throughout the surrounding areas:
- Baltimore City
- Maryland
- Washington, D.C.
- Pennsylvania
- Northern Virginia
- Delaware
And many more!
READ POSITIVE CLIENT REVIEWS
At AEG Environmental, we meet all of your company’s response needs, despite when they occur, with 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week, emergency response services. Read what our clients are saying about us:
I have worked with the folks at AEG while employed at other environmental firms and found the team at AEG to always be upstanding, honest, hard-working people. I highly recommend their services to anyone having an environmental need anywhere within their geographical coverage. – Rick D., Westminster, MD
I appreciate that AEG Environmental is always there for us. – Megan L., Frederick, MD
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RECEIVE MERCURY CLEAN-UP SERVICES FROM AEG ENVIRONMENTAL!
We are a trusted team of mercury remediation and environmental waste professionals in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Don’t risk your safety and health! If you think there has been a mercury spill, call us today and get a proper mercury assessment of your property.