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W; - *jj,2$r. ' ij. WL:-` t > r-'t* - . 1.. ,i,,. j-tw" Fv^:^V^fL-" ; 'V^P' m: .**'?_ 1- *>>; ' ? - /2- plants in area:?* . h . A .. <1 By BABOLD SCAXLETT fwi Esrtr--asest Writer Two chemical plants In the Houston area wfQ be checked bp federal health tov restigitora for possible easel of a rare lteer cancer among plant worker*. Tbs cancer apparently la t earned bp yean-long npostire to Tinr^ chloride. a faa ed la making polyvbiyt for rare caiicerr ... . . ,, Chloride fPVC) plastics. Team* from the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety iU visit the Diamond Shamrock Chemical Co. plant tn Deer Par* and the Union Carbide Grp. plant at Texas City 1st* er this month, an N10HS spokesman , said Tuesday ta Washington^ The institute launched a nationwlde emergency surrey of eight plants that either make . ;: or use rtnyl chloride after the. dhcwwy testily of several' deaths among`Workers at a, .* rinjd chloride plant la tools* T TflJe,Ky. ' % -t r; OfSclate of the B.'T. Good! . rich plant at Lotdsvflla do**, teeted the previously atm* , pected occupational taart; and alerted the federal Oo* cupotional Safety and Healtik.rf.' Hesse see FMa/jage IffA ` y*i *SV 0006659 **-n$**TON >ost Po*o It/A> *. ants studied - 'w for incidence . *; * viN--* .**#f *** *' -mj"h * *, * *'' ' " " ` - V '. ._ " rare cancel 3k /"p^m nc^n j "V ** ** bc 300." . *' ^rfOITl Pflgv 1 y '''Union Carbide uM In ^4 statement tt hod checked the ( Administration <0SH4) to ft* . modfed records of 725 om' "l. ploys* and lermor employed't IWdettfc* and two adft. "**** worked with rinyT: J UgHl eamt of cancer have .chloride and louad only thf. J wow hem roaflrrrwrt among cancer case at JB West J Virginia plant plaat *rta employe died In 1968; r A* ft* alarm spread, single i1*** *w**n* *" rinyl chlo- J tooths from the anmr were *** polymenxation from 1*H. bftatadiy Termed from eotop- to ,5 *** company said, vr sy alidoa at a Goodyear plant The stricken work*.* at Jttr1 la Niagara, N.T., and a.. Goodrich plant la LoaisviUeZ ` Unfto Carbide plant at Sooth had aD worked with Tiny)** Oarieston, W. Va. chloride at least 1 years. j TWi esBcer la m rare that Vlrtyf chloride, a gas, Ir { tww caam hi m place is as *** * >"** polyrinyl chh>T epidemic,**tbe NIOHS *** P^wler. "Web In tunC apetwaam said. **Oor ttitH- " used to mamrfacture sadf* . ttetana pn)M that them pmdocta as food eon* boald ho only 9 deaths a *"*. phonograph records; * year from It is tha estire *"tf hoee and pipe. v country.** -A : Union Carbide said H knows! The cancer,'angiosarcoma, ^ * health hatard to *orkT $ often apparently goes node. *" "d"! chloride resin* tocted at tha fine of death 10 "*** finished product*. on: ] became of Its . rarity, ft* . thorn product^,; Spokesman said. Neither is there any known- J Nationally. ' attardtef ti a ' w resident* Wring "b NIOHS aarvey, these are 14 J** ^deitj of vinyl eWorld*; ' plant* predating rlayl chi*. .Puts- . . ... 2 ride and another -S mfaig It * The findings of MOHS, ij These foefada several plants `research srm of OSHA. wllT* Is tha Houston ana. be used bt setting new federal- ; ' Bat NIOHS ft tadadftg ofty Umlt* on worker exposure to; eifhtftants fa Its MtUJ chloride, and poaftbiy toi check la order to get o ftricfc **3aro- rinyl ehioride a csr-t tnodftf ft dm* pawdtli ft> dnogen. or: cancer-cawing* J ard.. . 'agent. -* Cj r- WhOeawaittaf the MOHS lewdgators; spokoauieii for Dlsnstd- Shamrock cd Ualoa Carbide said those plants are ralowing tbe tneft leal records ft employee* and String Hood tests ft soma cum hi a search for any ean> or - caam. * baft* plant* reported they had found an Indications as far ft say cancer cases here, t* *^ka have always tried to bold the expooure to our worker* at 58 parts per mib Bon ft rinyl chloride " said Da la Wegrick, Diamond Shamrock plant manager, *'area ftaafft (he federal V An OSHA spokesman saldC * there appear* to be no rcaf* } doubt that rinyl chlonde ir g* J esneer danger, although aomet * orientista feel second, tm>* I ***** chemical may also be* J Involved. _* The Goodrich plant, where ' 1 fiv* worhera died brtveeir J *"d last December. * j *" compliance with pmwe. e federal exposure limits o( Stt*. J W'n. -J ' "If riny! chloride is r*e-' r cl*red a carcineven." the NIOHS spokesman id. "w*1- win have to go a lot lower- ^ than 90 ppm as an exposureC ! limK.** *