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EXHIBIT AEI-5Z- * 4 * * # **# ***##***** INDUSTRIAL WORE CLOTHES : THEIB PROVISION AND LAUKISSIRG $7 HOT S. BOHSIB, M.A,; S.H. Industrial. Eygienlst, Standard Cil Co. (N.J.) * * * * JAHUAHY 26th., 19h8 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT STANDARD OIL COMPANY (I.J_> 30 Rockefeller Plata New York 20, N. Y. -f1e, : Coft ricfefl 6 Pet*-ele3 ihsiil^' t*f * lot`iHMiilrt * ^ SC-API-1920 -as*-' Ffyor Information to MeiuwrlQf A.P.1. Medical Advisory Cnrailftee - Wot For Pub11oatit 2JID0STRIAL WDRZ CLOTHES "~5Eia FHOVISIOH AKD LAtHTCERIRG __,v. ' By F.CT S- B0SSI3, M.h. ; E.M, ^Jhdustri&l Hygienist, Standard Oil Co, (R.J.} v. Modem petroleum technology and. the production cf synthetic hydrocarbon matex have introduced a health of workers number unless of compounds and processes which nay adversely certain precautionary measures are practiced. affect the Among then* ** , precautionary measures which are receiving ever-increasing consideration, at the tine, la the iseuance of iniustriai work clothing to employees and the installation plant laundry facilities to insure that Buch clothing is properly.cleaned end mini . Appropriate work clothes, properly- fitted and maintained, play a prominent part, in an Industrial worker'.a health and efficiency. This is especially true when persona1 are working vith more or less toxic or carcinogenic materials or whan cleanliness le-*' a factor in the maintenance of product quality. Consequently, nai^ of the nore pro-s, . gresslve industrial organizations, such as S.I. duPont da Henours It Company, the Arne; Cyanaaid Company and the Borden Company, have for years supplied their employees with!4 work clothing and have instituted a laundry service. 1 .. .... y More than twenty years' experience has definitely shewn that this practice" '-substantial dividends, both-financial as well as improved public and employee At the sane time, there hae been very little difficulty or resentment resulting^, the provision of work clothes and their laundering on the part of employees^in not receiving this service nor from local outside laundries and merchants.. ' ** ` . -' ' :* L In order to obtain definite data as to the practical aspects of providing woTkj clothing and the operating of plant laundries, visits have been made -fco Jiha Cheabfl^ 'Mark* of the duPont Company at Deep Water, lew Jersey; American CyanaaidCompany, Calco Chemicals Division's plant at Bound Brook, Bev Jersey; and Borden1 s.Paxjhff Division laundry at East Rev Tork, HevTork. The information obtained during .visits is herewith briefly summarized: - . .. . ' _ ' ^ t^ J 1SSUAHCE a?. IRDUSTB 2 A L'' W 0 BE Yl O V| ^ 1' Work clothes are usually issued upon requisition from the employee* s foresee supervisor at a store-room at-one end, of the Employee..Service Building (Ve^h and' Boobs) or adjacent. thererto* ; Thsre appears to be no uniform practlde ae to the ' clothing supplied whinh ebvioualy is determined by the nature of ths/nsxTs vox garments make op b` u`lk o~f the c`lothing, with 'the exception *"of men working with ac given wool shirts. ._. '_ ; i : > la order usually kept. of th American keeping records Of clotbee issued, a 3" x5" card f5 ile of such a card Is this one used at the'Bound Broojg GCoasn^auoayv: . . - ' v- _ "-1' * ' *' -.'^*"^*.1 .*' X m ' '' IFi+XiitS v.. - ------ v. : *cis (2) o -> A?-' ! a? i uJ.CCr. ;`C 1 it .*. *; i 1 0'JT6;i' Chest j Waist Lg TV 3 M* LL.i -.'tpicyt'd Locker Do. ------------------Sotr;.-3 to Paymaster --r Cuaper CrveraliS Chc-st Waist leg .. Underwear Shirt tJ a uravers Eack Back' sign. - , ; ____faplCTgf_________ Chambers Work: Upon employment all operators and. maintenance bob are given ruAmVIS pairs of trousers, two 6hirt, two BUits of long underwear, two-large towele ( a cake of 3cap and e pair of vccdec-eoled sandals. Three sandals ere worn v] to, from and taking shower ba-:he. They are obtained from tbe Reece Wooden Company, Cciucbvs, Kebraste tnd cost about fifty centers pair, fjpen requl^it niB foroamn, :m employee rscrives two new towels every six weeks and a new c every -vc kt-aan. The firsi iuoue of clotting is free after which, employee is vita two new lacuea a year at half price, upon requlaition froaT'the foreman,1 All l t lotting routanimated or ieaa'jed to such an extent that it must be discarded; is ' ? rep-aced nt Company .expense,- Clothing supplied to-employeee must 'bexfcturnttdwhen are terminated. ' ' ' ' t : ' .. '--`/.i&& Bound Brook Plant: Originally el] productIon men were given cover-alls, unde soap and towels out recently the Onion has insisted that this service be extended maintenance men. Three seta of clothes are furnished a year. A set includes tvi? of drawers winter or summer weight), Wo suits of long-eleeved under-ahirte '{i or susner weight), two suits of cover-alls op two-dmgsxees and two' jackets this clothing had to be paid for over three pay-days, but it Is now free. The are "heavy duty" 22 incises by 2V inchee in else'. The underwear is Otica Rnlttiiig Company, flexible rib, steam shrunk.' The cover-all are "Aragr Surplus" or "FzdnkliXr Overalla from Paterson, lev Jersey, All sJLbthing Is stencilled with the^plcyee'M check number idJfiCT'JLercttles IndeXibls ink, obtained from 'B. Kbhnetaan k Caaqany, # 63-91 Park P^aHSK^lork, !f.T. 'at $4.90 per quart. This Ink Is especially effect^v^ as it will vj^^^EK"&umerous washings. . 7 - ; -- . -. .. .. -4 OoiforaB, ualooaiU,'coate/pants, aprons/ caps anU tow^ihareP_ furnished free*BKflall plant men. .{Preduetion' Workers), platform men, foremen.V whole- -'_ ' sale drivers and laboratory technicisn*`. Towels and smocks -are supplied to office-^ employees ani to sen in the Printing Shop, ` Qaiforms and towels' axe changed dally./. LAUBDEBIBG OptRAT I 0 IS i'Tv Plant Laundries are usually located where the utilities'(w^er^ atas*; gda amir* electricity.' are readily accessible for exasq>le, in one corner of tte Bmployee*$\TV/^ Service Building (wash and locker rooms) such as at the Bound Brook Plant of the____ Chemicals Division of the American Cyanamld Ccngiasy nr to ithe 30 ft. x 60 ft. corrugated iron building at the Chambers Vorkscfth* duPwrtl-iv* Cojqjany. Borden's laundry for the Metropolitan Area lk a part af thsilr.Atlantiet^?. Avenue pasteurising. Plant. '' i - `' 4 w -i >* *. M" t3) psuipmset cf vers ci' of white uni: is listed The necessary la-undry ec^uipzDsst depends upon the type sad quantity.' to he processed. Most cotton end vcolen work dotbee with tha ezoeptd i ere siiaply washed and dried 2nd cot ironed. The neceesaX7 eqv . Chittera Borta: One i2* 1 72" Troy Premier Washer (2 sections) manufactured of the American Laundry Machinery Company, Capacity 300 lbs, dry clothes. Used foar^^* overalls, coveralls. Jackets, etc. One 36" x 54" Washer (2 sections) manufactured^, by the Trey Manufacturing Company. Capacity 200 lbs. dry clothes and used for tovels and socks. ' ' . `"x' One 40" x 18" Mercury Extractor, manufactured by the Troy Manufacturing Ccqpaagi and has a capacity of 225 vet clothes. One 28" z 10'* Extractor manufactured by the. Amerlcen Laundry Company and has a capacity of 75 lbs. of underwear per hour. Tbaes centrifugal extractors remove approximately 50 percent of the water during the 15 minutes operating time. Both extractors, are equipped with safety devices Which prei covers from being opened when machines are In operation.-i. ' . " *- - .. ; ^* One 40" x 64" Dryer and two 36" x 90" Dryers manufactured by the American Let Machinery Company. The two dryers use. farced steam-heated air and each dries 225' pounds of vet clothes par hour at ^ temperature of 100^. Wool clothes are hangers and dried slowly overnight in a steam-heated (3 radiators) plant room at a temperature of about 130**. This room can handle about 200 pomds clothes per day. ' . - ' '. ' " . -* ' * * ' v- y Bound Brook'plant: ~ One 42" x 64" Bcrvood Masher end two 42" x'i>4" Borvocid Washers manufactured by the American laundry Machinery Company. One 50" end ana Xotrux Extractors manufactured by the American Laundry Mwnhtnery Cosyaay. - Twelds; Zone-Air Dryers manufactured by the American' Laundry Machinery Company, this^ also has an overhead mcmor&ll eyetem for transporting laundry from the washers to" extractors and then to the dryers., V. -,' ' 3orden Company: Foul* Stainless Steel Smith Dnm Washers made'by`the AaSrie Laundry Machinery Company^ Three .Extractors made by the American ' Company. One Morelone Dljejv:>;-All of/fchl* equipment, has baps In' service about ' . .` *' . ..'v . ' Modem EffuipmeiitT .jO^tBetv^le prodgeaebaibeen maae during ' ^ "~'J design of laundry marbinary .'Tows high prp&uetlom sterile-clean washing wltl possible manpcwe^daaendUalnoe moat- of^itls- push-button controlled.^- Bare, ``are-' examples Company, . st^Mow being mmnufacturedby thh1 American' laundry-________ .V-v.; *... ..*- /\ys VBA8BEB"uriloadd rjachsMoally lh leas than i; minuter . Id mhottert jqesifcBeHimer' Saif etatadiwd -- _ ri^pmei^^ or' a^^laBmatsdy unit -for operation,' StireHsmllnfid^;? 3\. 'mwlng^ parte enclosed for. safety.1. l^ill-sklrtedfrcnt ends guttei^aplaah -end eeapyfdtora. Troved design, -- eaves' supplies1'-'v steam and water. Built to do the-jot "better, teeter# <at lew '.eol|t$V Uses AC 220 volts/ 60 cycle#-.3 phase electric power,. Price f.o.b..Clndinoxl w-: 42" x 54" with 4 HP motor# Capacity . 225 UseVdiy clothed / 42" x 84" with 7 SP motar^'Cspaclty '350 Ibi.- 4zy clothee, 462M.W 'j^^s . - . , - ; ' '' r ' v?--i `--'r.' .... "CASCADE ADTOKATZC COVTBOL" Is designed for use as e caaganlon mlt^vlthV7'' any American Cascade Masher# to' autonatlcally perform nX2, cperwtlOBis'<'ja^j the best predetermined washing formula. Tt* eayaa. waatamn, 59' enjparath^' / operations. Price f.o.b. Clnclimmtl forFyliBuhcmm ' ............ . for Seml-Antoantle Control# - 5 .*?. f-' ` 1 D .Vi 9 .. .. i!.77'. i t: : -save surplus water free washed laundry tr.'k more rap* u.; . . =. increases prciucxior- and cuts labor coatB by e.-lninating &.-.1 zzz .uir-Iins o' vers froa time it ie unloaded froa the Mashers until it it cYur2i~?)3 rcchdnicaily ax the damp eneenbly or various i *..:i3hing deptitr z.1.:: Price i.c Cincinnati- for the 50" size, the- most a?jr.erally ut-ed, vi* b a capacity of ;20 lbs. is $5360.00. ''BCIE-AIE EKTiSG TUMBLES' incorporates en entirely new principle of tumbler . . engineering which enables It to dry all classifications of laundry work ' -1 rapidly at exti-enely low cost due to concentration of heated air in "sene'1 where verb ie noct thoroughly opened up for greatest exposure to i the drying air. This results in lower steam and power costs and sweeter - smelling work -- becaune greater effectiveness of the high-velocity, .. heated air makee drying less dependent an heat. Work is dried mere . naturally, as *hen lung in'a 3trcng, warm breeze. Price of the 36" x 30" f - ZONE-AIR DKTIS0 H3SLSH complete ie $745 f.o.b. Cincinnati, Ohio. - lAtarPT RERS0HKE1 - The .-lianbers Veras Laundry staff has a "foreman and seven ' nan on the 6:C0 A.X. tc 4-.00 ?..M. ehift and one man on the 4:00 P.Ji. to 12:00 Midnight The vu.ee rat? ax present ie $1.37 per hour plus a $3.00 per day bonus. The Bound ircok Fleet Laundry has a staff of a foreman and. eleven men: on day shift, six man cn afternoon shift and two men on the midnight shift. Twe. ' woman working one shift of eight hours Baking necessary garment repairs. All 1 at the hiring rate of $1,035 per hour for 30 days; $1,065 per hour for "the uext 60 days, eft*r which the washers 'ana countermen get $1.10 per hour. - The Borden Company's laundry has a foreman at $71.00 per week, five women at $4b.0Q~7 per week, one seamstress at $16.00 per week, a driver at $61.00 per week who collects and delivers the laundry from the various branches and stations. '- There appears to be very little labor turnover among the plant laundry vorkere.r , The average service at the Borden Laundry is 15 years, 8 years at the Chambers Works'^ '(_ * Laundry and 5 years at the Bound Brook Plant Laundry. . . -: -,1 AM0L7C 07 XAiaiUhi FRCCggSKD - The Chambers Works Laundry does from 750 to 850. bundles (pants, shirts, underwear, socks, tcwels, coveralls and Jumpers) per day. 1 This ie approximately 4,000^piecee or about two tons dry weight. . .y: .'J ' 5 ; 2. S tr Plant Laundry cm an average does about 36OO coveralls, 7200 suita towels per 24 hours,. " is the only one of the laundries visited that finishes any . do "rough dry work". On the average they finish weekly 480 coats, 46o pants, 200 aprooe, 12 cape, 10,000 towels, 175 uniemails, and 75 shirts. In the Bough Dry class, the daily average output is 1000 coats, 1000 pants, 60 towels and 4o unionaxls. * .' ' '[? IAUBLki BSCCBDUUtZS - There is, of course, some variation in tbs laundry procedure- at the various laundries visited, however, the procedure at the Chasfcere Works Laundry,-! u vhich is outlined below, it t-pical: ' - y.l C.in'.'t.fr .j'jndry bags, L-lZ-z a.r-rozlaately Zi oundlee, are received iaii- i r-m the Taricvs -rirjry; .10'-c?e bv gsirsis true;! Each bundle Is tied and tin-t^ged, showing onn'e clxci number, lvrae tad ebaa^e-houee. The bags are c-perri er.d bundle6 placed cn sorting -able. Cue man removes tag and passes bundle to another verier \rhc interc and nrsber on a laundry check sheet. Firan inn rnen caxl= out pie:.as by name (pantB, shirt, socks, etc.), which second - rum caters on check list. A numbered identification safety pin (10 to a Bet obtained from E. Konnstesjn & Company, Camden, Hew Jersey), is pinned to each ,,. piece 0? clothing. Clothes are separated in laundry baskets as tc woolens, towels't underwear, and socks; pants, shirts, etc. The clothes are then washed as follows: A, Clothes (not from dye operations: . Opera tion Rinse Wash - Suds Rinse Rinse Rinse Rinse Gale. of HgO in Washer 76 35 - 36 76 76 78 78 Ingredients Used Water. Perlite Simplex Simplex Water Water Water Water Amt. per Temp. 100# Dry . of Clothes Water --- 100UF.-120F. 6 oz. , ---- . 16 oz. x l6oF. 16 oz. -- 160F. 170CT. ' --. lk0F. .-- -- . Cold Cold Running Time 5 Min. ------------ 10 Min. 10 Min. 5 lot 5 Milt 5 MljL 5 MM. 33, Clothes from Dye Operations are washed as above with the exception that 12 ozs. of Perlite ielkaliy is used instead of 8ozs., and 2k ozs. of 81mplex - * "M lnetead of 16 oze. . ' C. Greasy and Paint Stained Clothing: -- Gals. of - V,' , Amt. per Opera HgO in . Ingredients 100# Dry tion Woaher Used Clothes Te^>. , of IpO ` ' - ^ ** * ' Running' ^ Time '\k' Wash 38 (Perlite ' ..1602. 1809P. , . 10 Min, -;-X (Pentroil - 1 Pt. - mm m . ' CMsrcoloid Mo os. . .--- . - ' Suds Rinse Rinse Rinse Rinse . giiq>lsx . 32 oz. 170^. . 10 Min.-; Water -- i6or. . 5 Min. <:% v '- Water - - ..... 100^'. 5,Min.tir Water ' . --1 ' * mm-m 1 v ioo6?. . 5 Mini ^ Water - - - * .- Cold '^9irt- ; - JL Wool ninths (Sot from Dye Operations) are washed in 78 gallons of water s! /-j 100F. with one pint of Puponcl is Paste per 100 lbs. of dry clothes far 10 minutes, and given two rinses with 78 gallons ,of water at 100F. for 5 minutes each. ' < - . Wool nothing from Dvb Areas is given same treatment as sibove except.for an extra wash. Laundry hags are washed daily with wool clothing. . - . ^ (The compounds: Perlite, Simplex, Pentroll and Mercdloid used - - J. in the washing operations are products from E. Eohnstaam .% Co., _ T. Hew Tork and Chicago, DuPonol 1 Pasts is a DuPont -product.) . '. i ^gj3tsn-: Tr ;s".oerr cf Clo".:-.-up: After clothes have been washed and wruto, : :-j~j are left :i '.-.v'-? \:z:- -Zc r extractor; where approximately 40 gallons jf r^re F?taidant CJ? .An axrcni'-x sulfar.-ot product made by the DuPont Company) solution '1.1 Sp. gr .! is T.i-ieu. Cl.r hfe are 6cs:ed in this solution for two minutes vrur-c tod dried. The 3-.-.L it lex it .-eccv*r*d, brought up to the original strength and ' reuse-i All pieces of fiaae-rrsnued clothing are stamped (3 diagonal bars) with water soluble yellov iye 1 "T.lthoscl'' F 7?-lev 3 G paote, a dye starch mixture mode by Cramers Wcrxs DuPont Iccpary Technical Laboratory and applied by a rubber ste^p), before they are returned to the areas. This gives area supervision a check an ora who are required to wear 3uch clothing. .. fioTt<np and Bundling: After clothes have been dried they are sorted an numbered, hooks cn moveable racks. The racks are then rolled tc outgoing "bundling" table where- each man's clothes is checked with original "check list", then bundled. Bundles are j* packed in the Change 3ouse Laundry Bags (which have been laundered). After tying up. and tin-tagging a carbon copy of^fcbe "check list" is placed in each bag vhlcb is of ^ value to the change house attendants In hand! lng distribution of clothing. r? * - T- Sharp articles, such as razor bledea, left in pockets of dirty clothes presents a serious hazard. Care suet be exercised in handling laundry pins. Clothing con- ~ ' tamlnated vtth toxic materials such as Betenaphthylanrine, Benzol, etc., are given p special treatzsnt at the le.ocra.tory before being sent to the Laundry. They kept separate and handled with rubber gloves. Bound Brock Plant Laundry Procedure: The washing operation at the Bound Brook - V- Laundry is very similar to that outlined above except that all coveralls are give$*- a 1C to Ip minute soak in sn agitated solution of L pounds of Soda Ash in 00 gallons* s of water at if.0F., rinsed, then vaahed for 20 minutes in 9 ozs. 92$ Armours Soap Powder in 6c gallons of water at 150F. in a Norwood Cascade Hasher, rinsed, placed in a centrifugal extractor for 20 minutes and dried 20 to 30 minutes in a Zone -Air, > drier. v. \ The following formula has been rec emended for laundering work clothing soiled ~ * with grease and grime: . -"jf '"Ose a mixture consisting of 2 parts by weight of Sodium Metaailicate ' to 1 of soap, or k perts of Sodium Metaaillcate to 3 of soap, and add sufficient to the wheel to give desired amount of suds. ?or flat work and scoe colored goods, 3 parts by weight of soap and 2 parts of Sodium ' Metaslllspbe. . .- , : v <. V * GAKMKifTts - The Chambers Works of the duPont Company report \ underwear on the average withstands 15 to 20 washings before they ' All le probably duo to the type of compounds, encountered rather^ laundering operations. The Bound Brook Plant of the C&lco Chemicals Division has bound that the life of their cover-alls is 150 washings; and their underwear, about 200 washings. Total Cost Of laundering Work Clothes - According to Hr. A. C. Pease, General ! Superintendent of the Bound Brook Plant Laundry the total cost (including labor, materials, rfenu, light, steam, water, interest end amortization) of laundering work 7 clothes is $0,033 per pound of dry clothes. The cost of labor and materials alone le cnly $0.Cl5 per pound of dry clotheB. The best price that could be obtained fron outside local laundry was $0.00 per pound dry clothes. / / Hr. V. E. Kite, Foreman of the Chambers Works Laundry reports that the total - cost, including all direct and indirect chargee was about $0.'03 per pound of dry ' clothes.. ' 1- He were unable to secure the cost rcr pound of work clothes laundered at ' the Suet Ikv fort Laundry of Borden's Tarn Products, however, here are the prices .charged th'j various " partsente haring work done. ' 30UG2 E.rf WORE t Coats.......... Pants ..... Bdoagwsels...........i Union-Alls , Machine Covers Blah Cloths .. Pulver Bags .. :$b*05 0.05 0.015 0.015 0.10 0.395 * 0.015 0.10 MUSSED WQBK . - ....... .--v . CDOPeorvnaievttersearls..ls^.' .S.-.*-h..ir-.t-.s..... Burses' Oniforaa Doctors' Coate .. Union-Alls ...... *...!...(.*..*.*..*....*..<.*...**....*...*..(... O.Q95 0#LL *' 0*X2|^. o*03 0 3^3 0#3^5 0.1k .** P F C L_U SI p Ji S. * At all points visited there vie general agreement that it was :'good butincus" to provide work clothes and unc^rwsr to eaplcyeee on jobs which involved ezyosure to tonic ani irritant rateriala or particularly dirty Jobe involving oil, gv^us: , gris.? -axl soot. It was also Generally agreed that a plant la.usM.ry t-ropcily equipped and operated was p r-ofiiable invecteeat which insure! that work r.c-^p wruld be properly iaua&ried tnd aaixrcuinsd. 3C Be-.: v ^i.'t 7 *^25 ! lit v trc: <"-'A- ! &t' XlT t ,;er;rr,. ;3tn: 1946' ROY S. BOK.-t.'B- H 4 VI Tniustri-ii B g: '3te.ui.ir3 CL Co prr.y 1 . }