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FILE NAME: General Electric (GE) DATE: 1929 Feb 19 DOC#: GE063 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Visit Report of Everett Foundry with Handwritten Notes Everett Foundry, February 19, 1929, fG-cn-CsLcI b l e c h s i c ) This visit was made because of a report which reached me that one of the castings cleaners was dying of tuberculosis. survey of the whole plant. I pade a rapid All grinders were wearing respirators and goggles. Core blowing should be included as a silicosis hazard. In the steel foundry Cores are given a silica wash, sometimes with the brush, sometimes with the spray. The latter should be included as a silicosis hazard. Six men were getting o ff scale from steel castings with an air hammer, blast and after air blowing. more compx e s s 0 % :\ it y.. V i'i-SKj V ` ' f ' Iron.cgatiqfts are ,.washed put with^a .streim of viater driven _ by force through~-^.t&de#|bat"itierifore& *is * * f-* > ' - >4 sufficient^ to clean steel castings, They are e x p e r im e n t in g ;.w it h ^ ^ t ^ a ^ '^ ^ t p fe jm ix e d with sand. I met Mr. Darling at the end of the visit and he told me that' the man with tuberculosis had been subject to the usual system of control, i . e . , examination with x-ray every six months, nevertheless, he is at present dying of tuboroulosrs pulmonary tuberculosis and the Industrial Asqident Board holds his work responsible, He was cleaning steel castings. I am to go to Iynn to talk it over with Darling. , yCJjuj-f ^ ra Nj J - -v. . ,, - 3 , l-- . - e y / > y^> *^2-- . 4" -- J--P . C - O W . *** - 4 c .e -c U iil | PLAINTIFF ^ e x h ib it