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FILE NAME: US Gypsum (USG) DATE: October 1971 DOC#: USG117 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: 1971 Memo from CP Kipp with attached article on asbestos exposures and link to cancer and asbestosis / Prora: C h i c a g o # 1 9 8 / C. P . Klpp Subject: Asbestos Exposures %mii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii The a t t a c h e d newspaper a r t i c l e i s v e r y d is t u r b i n g b e c a u se i t tends to r e fu te the theory that i t takes a prolonged r e la t iv e ly intense exposure to asb estos to cause cancer and/or a s b e s to s ls . The s tu d y i n d i c a t e s a tw e n ty p e r c e n t d e a th r a t e by c a n c e r for l a group o f a s b e s t o s w o r k e r s o v e r an e l e v e n y e a r p e r i o d , m o s t o f whom \ were exposed a t work fo r a p eriod o f 12 t o 15 m onths. The tw enty percent d eath ra te i s f iv e tim es the ex p ected U. S. death r a te fo r cancer, I f t h i s r e c e n t study i s r e p r e s e n t a t i v e , then th e company i s faced w ith th e fo llo w in g problems cr co u rses o f a ctio n : 1, O r J o in t treatm ent o p e r a tio n s have had a h igh burn over r a t e . We do n o t 1-mow t h e i n c i d e n t s o f c a n c e r o r a s b e s t o s l s among chose who h a v e worked i n J o i n t t r e a t m e n t and s u b s e q u e n t l y l e f t o u r em ploy. become more aware o f th e p o t e n t i a l r e l a t i o n s h i p . rh <- c o ---- 'P h-vJ V b 2 . Some o f / i i e o l d e r J o i n t t r e a t m e n t o p e r a t i o n s may n o t meet current h e a lth stan d ard s. Tnese exposures should be r e -e v a lu a te d as soon as p o ssib le and adequate streps taken. 5. A sb estos should be elim in ated from product lin e s vherfever f e a s ib l e . Strong co n sid e ra tio n should' be g iv en to co n cen tra tin g p r o d u c t i o n on R eady-M ix a s o p p o s e d t o d ry J o i n t com pounds. S p r a y o n "A" should be e lim in a te d sin c e Sprayon i s an accep tab le s u b s titu te . 1. O t h e r a s b e s t o s u s t a g e s o f t h e Company and i t s s u b s i d i a r i e s ''ould b e - f u l l y e x p lo r e d and e v a l u a t e d . T h i s w ould i n c l u d e t h e o p e r a t io n ! o f E. J . B a r t e l l s , an A. P. Qreen s u b s id ia r y which i n s t a l l s a s b e s t o s insulation productc. USG 104.3 TAB 3 3 Asbestos Exposures - page 2 ? PLAINTIFF'S t exh ibit i 1606(2) 5 . Product Management has ex p ressed K i l l i n g n e s s t o have the l a b e l s f o r J o i n t tr e a tm e n t compounds r e f e r to t h e a s b e s to s exposure 4 when co m p etitors are ready to take s i m i l a r a c t i o n . I do n ot f e e l i t -would gL be a breach o f th e law t o encourage t h lB type o f a c t i v i t y by com petitors and I recommend our p o s i t i o n here be r e - e v a lu a te d . ; The p r o b a b i l i t i e s are t h a t th e a s b e s t o s in d u s tr y w i l l take ; the p o s i t i o n t h a t th e f in d in g s o u t l i n e d in th e attach ed a r t i c l e a re no: * r e p r e s e n t a t i v e . Even i f t h i s i s s o , I f e e l th e procedures recommend should be given high l e v e l con sideration a t t h i s time. o n -jro DISTRIBUTION : Dr . J . Vi. Zabor, C. E . D ykes, A. J . Watt ) mJ. . S . Sne11 Vi. R. Kogan, A. R. Rump, Vi. V,. K ollow ay, . T hiel, J . TXNJ . C o r n e ll, R. p . E n tz , C. M. Howard, L. A. Tobey, D. F . Rohrman (C r P. 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'tcIirriJ i.ieg^a_ i amnl^&r. or'itrit ~>jis oiiooe- ^s2r:T s-t.T /.` d ariieraa"'TDrxa-a'-drrm S to *'Cr2t rtasas ^re -id -t ''rad? Nru JTori ariosar*'ao .onirici xas to i'oid onl arriat 3iappcacd|ritii irirrtos 'ja r s -c! .-iowtir' lo srtrsio s a ro .'im '-.flrio ' Jc/!~ ----------------------- lic ir-js a s and -h ad '.iio torUierj wioiars 'rio ' 'asibeotosj^.-Ut. SeldroE J a u i "" `A n o tic r n aso n to -fsri out h a t iapyieoed to d c a Vno - o r r e d . a m i a Sasii M ian abeslai lixt hid Seen Ourupht a r i d ^not producr sumon ia huniaLai."^ .!' ** . NT i . l i t 'S iru j o cio r ' j ; plained that Dir Eoes ia iir 'Nrs,.3 tn tj Jaelarj- orlea s-ith an seen cancer v s * i A tiS S - - ***'! . , . _ By THOMAS 0 TOOLS men who worked with % South chaUejcptf that sugjedinct" "Ta b 7 c a ll ,- 33r.^p` lajjrtt N f Service Spedoi 1African asbestos that had beta . In dlxctoshtg hia trend reca.Et SeJiioS n ld . *Txs v tY t is e is i-> rtASHTNCTOK - A fresh mthoorusghmt hwuomuladns.n"et product tu nsUatiioynarli "a Lmaeteetring OcirgtahnelxIactUocrc* il in #U 6iir l ia s .* .. 1 ' * :dy of ISbeSlOS W0rJcT3 ihtTK-S The ML Sms! doctor ex- three weeka ago, Dr* Seikoff In the su y t* thf men to si men who wsrked for as III; is ont year in an asbestos, plained that the men in the New suggested hem were iivcrxl New Jersey asbesha -iosicry,1 trtcry cbed of cancer at five Jersey factory worked nth an surprises m the suits. Dr. SeHknH faced thzi th e- -; mtrs the expected U.S. dcaLb asbestos called amoslte, im One of the biggest was that workers alive to SSD narra lhec ^ ate for cancer. ported from South Africa. Most men who' breathed asbestos 5- half flOS) were dead by the d 130 asbesto* worker* in dy afjve n yewt ago, the <2 workers used cnryaotile aabes- ben co the Job 103. which Dr. SelUaff had al of the aiomach toed and of cancer, colon. Dr. of 3570. : xere dead af cancer by the mid- ready shewed could causa cuv Seliinfl pointed eat that there *Jk s k irt h oioccr rvdhrg^ cfle of inu year. Lung cancer ccr in humans. went frve deaths In th otutfy tfcs'C rirad ixhcsb=a wnrttrt to- claimed 25. Five dcd. of cancer `Thera are soma factories from 'these -cancers, which to of the culoo and acccneab, usd that have changed over to the four times the expected rate chided'3j wop *find *td five of a rare cancer ci tic amceit asbestos fiber because! and a anrprtoe becauid there U aiosu, which Is 9 acxrrinj of ha * ebest and ato.-eeh all* called ;h was fch. h would tso< cum do espia nation for an intestimi lscia acm*rwhai d a Ch ^ l! 1 rocsethtUoma, vtoch U almctst' cancer/* Dt. afraid ihart SeUto/T sud. otrr Ulsrt *Tm! studyl cancer bring caused by asbesti fibers caught to the lucri' ic=g1#-aheaac I m inci. Cue aiicta ecai " always limited Lo people ex* ------------ - ................. , , r r poied to asbestos. r --s 4`Most of these people were amopsied, and we found wtial we've come to expect/' laid Ur. Irvine J. Selttoff of New YorkV ML SlnaJ School' of Medicine, her? the study was ccndactad. "TheJr Jungs ere leaded vlth asbestos fibers." Tne study by ML Sinai's Ur. SHikoff lock 16 years to com plete and covered all but 15 men who worked during ^?crld- ' War II t s factory in Nrw Jer-j wy where they made aabestns' tproducis for shipyards. Mcr$t_ i iisycd in the factory rvo longer a Lhan 12 to 35 mcmiha, though a I irw wer jtiU 'thera in 1564 5 whejj the factory toowed xsd Dr. . Seltkolf bepan hu study. I "One reason w? did this rtudy wtJ to And ein what happened t to atibeTOf wxrrken wrfco toil 3 their Jobs and had oo further I csfnsurr to aibrsn," Dr. Seii- - bai? said "Another ftrajwn was to find out whai happened to