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Contractors' costs, nation's health still concerns for stack; new PHCC president.

By Mader, Robert P.
Publication: Contractor
Date: Monday, August 1 2005

KIRKLAND, WASH. -- Considering how many centuries that plumbing was made out of lead, it's ironic that Jim Stack suffered lead poisoning from paint. That was good for the plumbing business and bad for the painting business.

Stack, the incoming president of Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors--National Association, was flat on his back in a hospital room in 1970 from the effects of lead poisoning as a result of his work painting bridges. The man in the bed next to him, dying from congestive heart failure, owned a plumbing firm that his son had taken over. Stack knew he

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