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't&e.* p*&C<4 ,,_________ *p/<^D ^ c fff /lw U An Army,k k r J ON''!'*;.:'1'-' I ( a Factory and a . tiiirm pm* r prank a. *azai The highest levels of the cancvr-oiusing vinyl cMsride -- six imes higher than aw uwcomino federal safety lew! -- wr? four Mr the fane* MtMk this Bmtw Chemical Co. plant In DMUMir! ZL cT~ A rr ~ ,-- sZZaZZ+UZ? It s Costly to Curb Vinyl Chloride . -it* '* -i ' By ROGER A. LEO Street, is this >ity' tomers, your workm, and Health Adroinistrat Telegram Leemiiuhr Bureau only producer of polyvinyl people in the ares." fOSHAl and the- Environm chlorate, and bonce the only Vinyl chloride is the tal Protection Agency (EF , LEOMINSTER -- Tl* handier of vinyl chloride in material for a wide range of have been working to set i uv. "Welcome to Leominrter Leoimnaer. plastics. Asn gas, It was used limits on the amount of vi -- Pioneer Plastic City." And Great American Chemical to propel chemicals from chloride that cm escape d they men ft. Corp. of Fitchburg is the only pray cm 4ar several years, ing production of polyvu Plutic Is the brood and but ether area Qrm handling vinyl mail the federal government chloride -- and tie levels t ter of Jottmy Applosmd's chloride. banned such use last year be to small they indicate hometown time days. Borden official, are quick to cause of air pollution and can healthy rospedt f* i Trwtole Is. mine ingredient! say no eases of angiosarcoma cer (Ungen. Linked in daunt, Smount of damage vinyl ct of piastic are dangerous. Vi have turned up at either of the vinyl chloride gas be ride can do. nyl chloride. the raw material their plants -- the one here, of polyvinyl chloride, has the one in Tliopnlis, IS. been irrefutably linked to ang-' officials say they are comes polyvinyl chloride, a Inside plants such a* 11plastic. Such a chain of minis den's plant here. 05HA sets cules is called a polymer. A limit of 1 part vinyl cblori insaicuma. a rare liver sensitive to the danger of cer. Eighteen cases have been * vinyl chloride ~t ni dn Borden's two plants produce 500 million pants rf per million parts air. The It K takes efleci.at tic wod confirmed in the United3wfaat they most to meet new vinyl chloride * federal regulations on per polyvinyl chloride a year. . Indirtry officials and fedev- April. The EPA is expected to i more have oc- missible levels of the gas in al agencies in charge ' a limit of 10 ppm at pokes cured outside the UA Leu side and outside the plant. of protecting workers and the omission from tbs piaflt. t coarinring evidence links v As one company official put etwuoomas.,differ m feel limit is expected' to be P nyt chloride with birth delect it, "You don't make money how dangerous the vinyl chlo mulgaied Uarch SB. and * end miscarriages. continuously in a business by ride gas actually is. Borden Chemical Co., killing or maiming your cus The Occupdliw.il Safely Torn to BORDEN P*9 * A*- BOR 0 0 3 3 1 4 uls.~ * ^ ^ ^5 7 ^ - 1 v' '-y Borden Chemical Fails Vinyl Chloride Tests'1' ^ CpHnwid From Page BA c oding pipes for hrigation ptoperty near the fenoebne, Gas collection and purifi take effort 90 day* thraeafter. A tum-yeer delay in inerting the standard may be (ranted by the agency. If it deter mines an effort if being made to -comply. Borden note meets neither standard, and company offi cials are the Drat to admit this. and plumbing. The Porden plant also produces latexes ani plastics -made of vinyl chloride and some other ma terial to produce special char acteristics. The pobmer tchain of molecules l has not caused problems -- ft is the monomer that is the culprit. The IS cases of angiosar the report states. Twelve 24-hour samples were collected at the fenceline. on plant property, and the EPA found vinyl chloride levels ranging from lees than O.OS ppm to 1 ppm. The EPA admits the meth ods used in the tests were '`in terim procedures which have already been subjected to fur cation machinery. O Equqipmenl to control the escape of gases from reactor pressure rebel devices. ' And construction of wastewater stripping devices. Vinyl chloride is producer from acetylene or ethvlene and once was used as ar anesthetic. ' Standard toxicity tests or This is why the company it seeking a $.5-mil!ioa loan coma in the U.S. ?>l involved workers in five of the oldest ther modification." But company officials, for animals showed no hint of the cancer danger, and no other through sale of revenue bonds bv tin municipal Industrial plants handling vinvl chloride. OSHA and the EPA became their port, .admit the plant does not meet either OSHA harmful effects were notedThe product b sold in bulk finance -Authority. Sod) a concerned about the monomer limits of 1 ppm inside the at 24 cents a pound loose or 2f loan is attractive to the com in 1974. when a doctor with plant, or the EPA propored cents a pound in 50-pound pany because of the low fi B_P. Goodrich noted a link be standard of 10 ppm at ventila bags. A cotnpanv spokesmar nance charge: the bonds ate tween vinvl chloride and ang- tion points. would not speculate on what attractive to bovae because of their tax exempt features: io*arcoma. L^jEverv worker wears a de lsludiet have since found the fix that monitors his effere effect the fU.S-million polio tion project will have or and the whole deal ts attrac nt rases at the five mJ oiants. '<-te exposure to vinvl eblo- prices. tive to the citv because h b Borden checked Ml former -*de. and has a respirator One thing st ems sure -- one tool for helping industry emolove*' health records, and which he or she is encourag#^ nothing, not even pure air U solve problems economicalK teste4 a*t present employes, to were. In addition, there b breathe -- conies free any thereby insuring jobs, and a .Hit hr** foend no trace of the an a 1 arm system which more. stronger tax bese. liver canc*r. t^'rilMidi'wbenever the level of Mrvor John B. McLaraWH Nevertheless. Bor'Vn if tfnvl chloride goes above 2S and Citv Accountant Join R. moving i" mwmlv with the pom. Car Hits TreeTata are nursed to be able to federal n4e)ipe*. One Borden official said assist in the process, as thev The p'.-m* here is TM|ajixslx. when the OSHA standard Flips in Dudley,feel soch a financial cren- new- jt went on'her with t*kes effect April 30. all work- mitment on the pert of Bor " pvfc in r*n(*mher. 195*. era will be required to wear den indicates an intention to When th- vpa ti"t bee*me anv time the level Injures Tworemain in the citv for spine ramceme4 v -t1* vh-vl ebinri-'e. of vtnff chloride goes above 1 time to enme. fVjrden officials Hvfed the n-m. Monitoring of the woric- With the *12 5 miHHe. Brr- ^oenev *nd tf.amv to Lev- --* must coni inoe as long as DUDLEY -- Two local men den will install eaumment to mjnster 'o' -'eveloo a system the vinvl chloride level re were injured early vesierdav caoture and rese vitrri chlo for testin' levels in the air. . mains above 0.5 ppm. the offi morning when their car ride. and to Biter out what EPA accented, in spring of cial said. struck a tree and overturned cant be receotured, oaiuwny 1974, and the results abiwed TO meet the federal stand on Route 131. official* exoLiined. low levels in and around the ards, Borden b going to in- INJURED Vinvl chloride b (Where* uiant -- but levels that were rial a system that will in VAN CHAUVIN, 21. of 11 to Oe plant here in railroad hi some eases far above the clude: William* St., listed by polin cars, nd b either stored hi standard OSHA and EPA are - Strippers to remove re as the driver, treated at Har the ran cars or in prewurtaed urging. sidual vinyl chloride gases rington Memorial Hospital tanka. On Mav A. M and 13. 1974, from polyvinyl chloride rs- Southbridge, for minor in- The isolated mdtacote* 157 air samples were takeo si Airies. (mmwraer*) of vine! ddoride plant laoperw and within a Fugitive emiadon STEPHEN VtlLGA, IS. of pi are oumpe* into "tattles" tinre m<le radius of the plant **4* to capture and eUmtoata Oakwood Ave.. a passenger, where heat ttid pressure are The vimi chloride ramoen- 'us the air strev gaums also treated at the hospital for applied, forcing the mone- t Nations <n the samples missions from the kvtustrial. mwr Injuries. mn to link up into the mo ranged from *ess than the de Police said the crash oc lecular chains 1polymers> of tectable ^sw-i of 008 pom to Equipment to control the curred about 3 s on. A second polyvinyl-chloride., CJ ppuv. the EPA repot escape of gases from reactors * accident occurred at the PVC taka the form of re state*. ------ and mixing, weighing '*rd' scene a short time later but sins that hare a variety of The samples-exceeding 1 holding containers used hi the.' `the driver of the car, not mmmnriil jppUfjilir-- fey. ppm were obtained on.plant manufacture of PVC resin. ' identified, was not injured. BOR 003315