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LAW DEPARTMENT TIDE WATER ASSOCIATED OIL COMPANY ASSOCIATED DIVISION 79 Ne w Mo n t g o me r y St r e e t SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA June 14, 1S38 Hobart A. Kehoe, II. D., University of Cincinnati, College of UGdicine, Cincinnati, 0hio. ater Associated CHI Co. m ego Dear Dr. Kehoe: I have not received any decision in the above case as yet and thought that writing a letter to the Commission night speed it up, so I have written them a short brief and am enclosing a copy with the thought that it might interest you. With hind regards, I am Sincere3_y yours, i-.i 3nc. K& 0022032 June rcdustrirU Udont cr.rdnslert ;tate Bulldin?: Francisco, C .w ifonUa -o ::<5nti32nt Tide eater associated __________- Inasmuch 00 cons id amide tires mo classed since chr decried of evidence in this eae;s :. doll it :;d$vt bs helpful -:.o write this letter, cony of which -0 bainy cent to applicant,*3 ittcrncy, no briedly susnerlRe the ease; ana `the points inv0.0.": :. _____________ vem 1 n oreloyoo of isaoclatsd (Ti '0 ....ooieted : *1 de ysn tut; escor*; . working as a tester .mpany's laboratory, i n .r 0 seti n v.ith which he toot -l of leeied mat lino* 0 did ns i: with loaded nctd.ino after November, "'T ' * . id h-etdy -thereafter his aedoveorrt. -efh die de-pany terrain ad. urine bis lifetime be suffered tbo die-ability which 00 plained v-ns. due to lead. poisoning and `1.0:0 v; olaia for coc ; cno.vbicn, honriaa on which was hold ;t 0m dr.on cisco in Septemmr, n ' etober end . e::\r;lv enyind ^ the lorsmissisn -issued Its Fiftdime claim, rtf. which -ward at ; ad: r,Tbe evidence docs not establish that the disability ec-rar-iained of by Applicant heroin was prostict itely caused or af^ravated by injury arising out of * and ;'rt tho course of his employment*" retition for rehsnrins: filed by___ . January 14, dl07, honied by the commission, and no -e. her proceedings i?er tnhen in connection with said claim by him* dhereafter, on du .`cl owim which hie widow, d 4he f onsdnoioru ^ or> 1937 died, ciQi`e 'fids nter ;.asoctpt?:d - il doiroany filed an 'newer to this claim, denying that h'ichaol Telepnsv sustained any injury or .Usability 0rising out of or occurring in thecourse of his employment. :ho answer further set up tbs facts relating to tho KE" 0022033 mMsm N 24411.01 e. a Is theretofore filed by his lifetime, nd sattirr* forth that therefore tha claim by the widow v?as oamcd by laps- --I time and by the previous eradication* ;:\r rtiwul tlon, all of tho .evidence and the .entire record in the ease of ieh&ei .''lepnev aysi act the ferunny was emcle part i the roc-ru in this case Instituted by Ms widow* : yrre that, any award to the apniicant shon'hl be denied hi tv-is oo. e ..ra '"ho reason tint the widow's lain is the same ol-nim :w that presented previously by her Imsband, and which was a on led by " ho .oonl solan* ..groover, no point but that in the prssent claim Instituted hy the widow nothing mm was offered n behalf of the applicant they than the fact 'that the employee bad died? in addition to which 'ihe widow presented evidence of the autopsy results, fhase included pho report ol iho ..stern - ahoratorios, f \rod b\uy 3., :ib3?, made fy '"r. ; trt.'c >c : acre, showing a larger ":end urntbnt in mixed specie /evis of tissue and in specimens -..X rib than is 'uvsfd-? found? and cco the re/.art :-f r* h* f. beeves* uto pay -uryosn, i.i P: siatedt i! :-',usc -f loath t Uremia secondary to iutorotitial utifiritis v: ioii was probably secondary v- load oiaopiny.0 Uuuae uotiuru a : cl nothing in aupiort of any if aim for the reasons ;vd*oi:i given. -iiyirdlnr c fcore's laboratory f i ndinrn, to? unejontra- dieted evidence tarts thtt the finding of an abacau .yiantity of ld-Kl in the iisoues ococlnod after deathof the tiuPltioc of those tissues in the body of but could tiu.p o-;> useo-aued for by contamination of the tissues after removal . '..he tissues fror? his body* this is the summary < f the tAtaMfita mho by Dr* 't 13 who made the tests and as testified to by Dr* Kehoc ..a this connection} sec the testimony of the hearing a irch If 193f i-X'-i-S do to i&* in this terra-ctiin, dr* F.^hCO testified as follows <pp. 31-40)? *' w * * I as therefor fully convinced as dr. fc. re `a that those results were the of out of contamination and not a true representation of the facts so far as the load contents of this man's tissues. - * * Dr. boors has an expressed herself to mo personally and has authorised me to" oay that that is her opinion.4' : ua .rvespect to Dr* Hooves * findings as to the cause of death: Sea the testisxmy of the houriny on larch 1, 1538, pares 4-4 to 43, wh.:oh evidence is not contradicted anywhere in the record, and in which r*. ..shoe pointed cut that the only reason tint Dr* dSi-y|o stated .In bin report "probably secondary to lead poisoning'* ioore'e laboratory fin lings above referred to, 0022034 tMMS&iSim ori tb vt the , * hi. co i that be speculated on this probable enure ;aa because of r. Xoarcda chensistry report nnct that he (Dr. beeves) me -v-rcccf with "r. c-ore* e opinion that the miy explanation for the atmrre.l v.-.cunt of land was eorvtnmn'tion. of the tissues after hah been ro-soved froa 'Xalepmv1^ body* : rx th mxneotaon* . :r* shoe testified (page 45* line :ify .mylnv that the rofsrence to load poisoning in `.a .kroner's diagnosis loaves rs cntimlm unconvinced rh heaves ;.,e to believe that the atvmmnt that it was .>robably secondary to load poisoning is entirely without ;iv50puato ovi \Qnee in support of it* I do riot take seriously in any v-ay drone statements h pobably roomvlsry to lead loonhr:* for a variety of reasons. '' drr>t o f all * *tho necropsy r-p-ort oven as it is shown X r - ;. riofi-r demonstrates art ndequni coucu oX Psath* in a;.v.;i. trie an had uremia .-md hau interstitial nephritis* a cor/'ition which in and of itself in ..recueatly" responsible ' r 'each* and which requires no further .- y^lanatioa inasmuch as -'U m* .jot fully aware df ail of thr iorm- which pro* 2uc mron/lc interstitial nephritis* -.-reevor* the report itself da a not my frankly tarot tills rn? secondary to" chronic 'ntorctftial nephritis. but soys 'orchid'/ mvrandar.y to leaf ic-nulnn'S -intzh involves a definite ,;.-i n n iocl fu-hyient on the art of oho pathologist xml it a n tin . x. oi.o/-;ist-`s opinion as transr.iitted to me personally that the n.iy .ro'nd for this ex- lomt rv statement - f the probability n'on in hie knowledge x iho -otiXyticnl timing (Dr. hoorah; report) and that he bad no othcr mason whatever far inquiring into the cause of death. ' Tfu-ougheui the evidence the uneontra&letcd tastimny shoes that* reduced to languages the reported cause of death was vfrrt is known as `'Bright*3 Dieoaae^^llij^c^jsa of which.* in moat eases lo unknown* In other woxvls, died of fight* Dioeaa#j the cuose of which* sc far as any evidence To concerned* i totally uru-elatod to lc,-d . i reading of the pages in the transcript referred to above will chow wry clearly that it is the opinion of x-r. Doore* vho made the examination of the tissues following Telopnev* death* that the lead found in those tissues can 'only be'accounted for by contamination of the tissue after they lie ft Telcpnev's body* and that the rmort dove not represent that thm-re v;a any abnormal quantity of letd in such tissues while thloy wore In the body ot* "r. Xclopncv* -5 X is testimony will also clearly show that the only mason w xr# ^novss r.pceulatod that the interstitial nephritis night be second** ary to lead poisoning was because he had first read fr* iioore'a report 'without any knm*/io;ig at that tine that ouch report did rot represent the' true e-ndit"on of the tissue rails it was in. the body - f TAicpncv* K 0022035 . 4* h*. U)i art * Kohos, urn vnis called as an oscpert in this rune by ab-s 4s dmdunts In recognised without dispute ns tbs leading authority; t only i.a the United bbates but. internationally} on the subject of load --oisorting* He teaoified, without qualification, ihal edieally too plain that suffered 'frera load poison- Inr os oho ooiu.t of 'bis eyploymrrt nas ridiculous; that landed ;asolino , v:hich oac the only load - rodnot handled fey f jsiopnev dmv ins? his Tidddrm In not a toxic product, and that lead poisoning cannot moult fme the handiiny of leaded Vasolino, There is no ii.epoto -:\n po this tact* In this port'.sot ion, cuaiia&at perhaps unintentianally eon** fused the inane by a /great leal of testimony reopeetino dsn toxic qualities of aatraethyl load. clour distinction rust ha drarm, :<n tea hbcim by the vmeentr^dieted evidence, between tetraethyl i eo-j non leaded noth ice. Tetraethyl lead in a concontrntod fluid mi lr- toxin* claiii ms even ada that iebaol ''*4 opnev ever ': itl a i tetr e ihyb led* me; -.Ifl.O- i usiXino is a diluted fluid in v.\ i.ho man n is lent than ma tort . 1 tetraethyl, load to 1.-10 part-'' i i -iKKii:ts and in amt i.n.n '-rices the dl'm,; n runs as hi at us mo yurt, loud tv thm and J.r;.r thyyqand part;:. -y gasoline* he evidence ahov;a without mncradietl-m ah .% '.cue* poison** imt - Him Trust the hand a in-' of leaded yacoiJ.no, .ad `this r u.- .il:o..a dm; a study :-x thousand of coses. i-'m nrs several Tamrod a'-- arml aotaons in a he bnited itatoo who have mcked for .'. i-t-r. ;;~ '.h iciioa anooline involving far greater ccntarrL .;;lth it than i-e-urved a ; lha ime at by. Veiepnav, and all ax?. : at a single moimb cane in boo exyerionee of any of the doctors -p in any of tan jeciouj. iivor-aiure of Xonl poisoning resulting ."cm the handling :f la-dob ;asc:ins, i ha toatimuiy showed without contradiction a-'-.t persons onTT bathe Uavi.r entire bodies in leaded gasoline far hours at a t-lm mi over a period of years vsFithout absorbing any mid as the arauJi* i.he tnsfixnouy also shewed Umt toxic quantities c&nnol bo inhaled in the handling of loaded gasoJin, ana mt a single r--corded ease of lead poisoning"resulting timo f load from tbs handling of leaded rem-ine* -.f lead hors is inhala- ` `onlover,, the c-vi&eas shot*3 that even it the reverse were true, did not inhale any lent mf did not. --Gt any thing -oro than nv:gXigible quantities oT the leaded rasoiinc on my r.-art tf hfn &kin* The evidence showed without contradiction that the total, nuaatily of tetraethyl .toad contained in all varmlas many into .,hn laboratory uhers ' worked `.vas uoaour-od ;hcu ii - 'v.-y intc the laboratory nnn rMti '..her. it loft the Imor- :-itoi'y, urd tint, auvh maasurensntn showc .: the saae quantity always ' a d"-'-T-'; labnsdtcry iw coma into it, o that none was loot during d.a tine th-vc id'Cynav uorlted aith leaded .^solina and therefore Hi 0022050 ;'H *. - d: ,-iiid net have absorbed any cither by absorption through t .e akin o'r by l:~\iuiudion of loud vapors " f e; -.; 1 ;;-.ane a-C 'b Vift?!<au choir'cd sue ; vapors to ;rt! dmfhur : d fvi 3 f .03 yaso: ui-o Xaser&tory wher. _ vapors and not load vs. t hi -U.-' c to IX ip; ointed out th-vt the doctors who attended b :,-'. * hie lift aid >% the time of hlo death, were unwill* to -.ri ei ,... if ; cantd -in ito -is tu tha cause cz hia death) because they <}. ]{i ;ot. : oo;i uvvfc they hnaw the earn of Mo- death4 and that t: 13 is the eoson that the kroner1 inquest was bold* ,;>.biJ.y ,r* noeves' -oport, whi eh ;cts a a->e elation and o 'uwo: n;: uu a; mito ntT which merely Ji/ited ": probably secondary to lead uoiaoniff g- can have no naritoo on the to te oras 1?* Heevea admitted e-- f tidied lyj . lehOO) that this oosculation on his art 003 hufifi oitiociy on hr. looro*n chemical analysis and on fto cMilf th-tt ; the* iras -nihil,;,on ti the tissues :. tha d'uiv ; 'C VOO ::rvr n to t r^U>o??xs report showed load content vms due to ':outaol:t3fi n t 1 ,hc- tissues tlu rcaft r,' .is report v;?uad net have even not too Ofloulativc -11333 v-clsting to -hr* lend poisoning* ihOW i :t: } report .; 1 he rumination of the titnuta -r death cannot help the widow*a claim Lit tit in cane :. t the r casont-imt. Or. hoore cor,, odot that tisa lead .on tent t . . c ; i ,: ; ': uhelysia was .ft an Off; a r fa a tin2 .atont -it.h o ch-CCC tissues wore in ...: r uttuv.af desire to point rat that frth:rir In the evidence of ill y present case in any way added a single ihirr: to the claims .tout by ieh&eX h-oiepnev in Ilia hearing had by h:-m berora the Corn-* mission. durian hie lifotino to iailcaid that any tianoitity suffered ny Ida fas n'Ui-ec'iot with hie ersclvyment* and cei tide j*6int the Cornndsaion ruled atuaraely to the claimant during hie iiiVtitie. la other words, this is ro rely a second -f: opt by the whff of the employee to hove the iaramlesicr. rule again upon a rati or o^ icii no fully considered ay it and ruled upon severest y' to them in a previous onto during the employee * a lifetime* -'van as to ma&ieal testimony there cannot be i : that -f--. ro ran oven n conflict of avif'.encsv for ihc '"aa^on that the only odionl t :atdnony given by a person chilled, la the subject ot lead ,f 3--^nir ` v;nu the testiaiony of ;r* i-ehoo. -.linittedly} aorio of the ffoLorc a ".i..>. ylnr* lor ap-.iicant were specialists in lead ucionnin^* :r. th^banoff Drinojhoal nodical viitncca for claimant, -330 a cioif. ,.'riorui of family for many years and admitted tlat. cue hud caily handled two cases f '- ad poisoning, one -f vdiich involved c-a-ptfile'laud from printers Lot -:;v.l If-c :tl'.er, nhioh was not \ ts.-j-d a-`c-i -.;. ;Ud but involved the h.-fuiliag of "acejiac in a la ru :bf Of l del'::y outi^blishment, v.uich g.acolinvi contained no lead whatever# 0022037 t'ha u:ic d ntradictod evidence chm-rs that lo dad gasoline in m different, m far ;vi lend -.-olsoning is concerned, from gasoline which contains' ;vs lend at, ail j tint neither is a -toxic ; -redact, and that there -re no .' -corded cases? of any toad poisoning fron the harailing cl* loaded moo line. ,mny the things testified to by Hr. Hebert ; fohoe, the invon-:;;: mm expert n the rmbpaot of 2 aad' poisoning, particularly- ' : oatrethyl load d of loaded apt all aj ora included the following to .to onto Itotonp ,p,n,.,, torch* 1 S^SJu2s 1 nave -mne ear-tof nmmtototoe entire record* - * * y cono.'.usicn in that ho did not have load poison- tog a it lo a'y opinion that to did .rut die of .and poisoning*** -a A* to.to .:-e up:Yiiwm.to to o: gesuro of is W3 at ...ich 1 C-.P1 ' ogord in ary way airnilleant far the oilowing reasonst mpsrimrrtnl and c .'.inical observations ; - groir hi -. to have lean occupied a3th too came work hove fai od to ohm? any evidence ted there is .y unavoidnbio :,v -. tu l laud osaro aa>oei-tcd with the ?&* amt. is to say there mo a . .0 thousands to : on who vo roan engaged aver a aria.; - f years in this type of /ork, old to have studied a relative group of these m tith the idea of tolcradntoa whether or not. their occupa tion docs invoiva load exaosure* lhano oboorvrations have toon based upon clinical a tody '1 their 'Lead excretions at hi farorrt times ov't mrioto - d pawc. dde type to obser vation las failed to slim any evidence in the fora of a heightened lead excretion, af. .t the . oeeuotoicn involves actual aaaKurahlt exposure to lead cortaound 'oroovsr so far m ury knowledge goca, 1 dram cl no ease of jand tolLdiiU known or recorded instances.of poisoning, and at be regarded therefore Of? a has; tons acpupation .to the cense at a aripun record cm* having produced case of lead poisoning#" I^t <o4f2tP-'Q 154 hr* lehoe points cut the ditooronce between .a - oncentratea tetraethyl load and toe diluted product tot leaded soline which :is not toxic* .1 m to IfS Dr* fehoe points cut that load canrot bo ab sorbed through the a -..in or inhaled as the result of handling lc -tied mamino* dr. a oboe points cat. that wo ovvr. to lead poisoning bws boon oecn or resorted in.medical literature from the handling of gas T-llna containing tetraethyl lead. K S' 0022038 itogitoa b-:v;tiraony ohearing on :! In. ;;:;jr Or* hohoe; -. ; ify-P, v-.-;o: :h : -: .bb.V:n ;..' wr- vie .:, :*a ;tdb.tbt: nephritic on aoer-'-pey : oti:-:>.l y o: :.!..oi.::t;u:-o nab v.w. d : tcj n 0; o'", ont jd le-.-d 'r : osntnY * t s quite, no owns fis type b bidne;/ nit,h -:' t` ' ;. : ' 1 dYbnrttitial nephritis with a s c a! l red contracted ddnoy 0. o an expression oh cnrenie ir-tsrrvfcitlal nephritis vnr or L-- o of yonrs qot apart fron .load poisoning and art bran any hunnu xcsxic .arcnt* o hirat .olid, in ny c 'rnhini;-ri t'vt -: Id; o.:v bio ./' I.d olnonirn1 no-.tractod b; .y b; b ; .' '. - / r pi;dor tr; lend oto- oi-tod '. oLfh It - r. - O.Oi -yon n.u-itrn thy vpitt 'o~ .lib : -onditi \-:m on n; n nt hl b/ient. no to do eatable of resulting in the y-tov ddon .. :. ::di\or;.naX quantitlen '.: load. .'- -la opinion, ie '.otco co c tensive elirdeal rly-or-wtioa cad c-.oro ;,-;> -ertanUy c.i net ena/tve axudy o-l the roan of bio d nro-pe- dv>.;; r : ' -jn under n- edit'tan of oxcoemro In oir.ilav ooru- eivlo-ran d.o ' suite of which r<-.vo born to convince so d-t ~h "- be a tnneurablo icon nvnoeuro -vr-oM to 1 with o5'o . . :V-rnev-r - or domed by r. - olepnov,': LJob x cccan that the exposure aoooeloted with the handling oo loaded aishina in any a net all toys in which; It is com- cnooLaoly handled pan never 1 .a. shown be rr-nnTtt ovna in the abnorpti a od bond. In bn at all experimental evidence inn? obot load la never absorbed in meastirable quantities ua too avault of contact to any extent nith daoebino containing tctraotliyl lea,]. 'oraoverj thorp have been no enves of rocognisabi-o ana confircspcl load poisoning anongst soac huiKiradc of thounanda af pornons whose- tiaily uccupaticn Involves expeeuro both by chin contact and by inhalation to gasoline containing tstraothsyl Iced# In factfthc*re is at tiro rrrmerit no ojtpQJ?ir^crrUl.. or clinical evidence that, leaded gasoline :le nore danger one than is ordinary gasoline i'rom"*tho point of view of load absorption# ** SLJ&* H1 have not been able to -fin! any substantial cases of latent load intoxication in - hioh cyrrptona cane on within a / .cried of : it: walha to ove ami onc-Knli* ye re ab.v the ccssati -n .xpomrn*ts V i> '-/dV' - '. v i';-a( .- KE 0022039 "hriohVo disesrsa is no hurst a rather Incorrect terra :/ lie 1 t-o nephritis and vovo paptfvtlarly cl ironic Intox'-* ..'titiai nephritis with edema end '.Ath uremia5 ,tn& often soucs elated, ,i`tb Alcoa vassal disease as hell tut not noe-ass- /rihy no* ^ oho ot'.mX copse oo too disease is not on-ana.rt !!In "act ;lt. in oy opinion that it is inponr iblo to opine leva poi.fioninp in top ocoouotion.^ "T how ,o o.o cono 1 a /hioh load poisnni.ny has hevaioped . oX-a loo' ' cossotion or orpyoaho 'nothin o v; of . onner y; _;.?`p '-ho P., ^ ft5> * ' ` 'o 'ehee n/oo osaod by ap licant{o oe'onooy nhothen it oo5 not ;i f?.ot that the carlo sure oaji.h he ro"fjy in or---"- -coo ids case of or. del epnev \ hie--" those oxporinents ith totraothyl ' -c l ww tosj v. a--- ; or- -a elth oho synosure o . i.i inr. oh; fc:h n atoen&ants*smei paraph riecAnnioGf or* h.ehoe replied* uTha onsc/eo i: dint.lastly in' ;hoc painted ''lit loot. lb on s. - ; so r-w a c o o cases kncolodpe* 3`iah oft that ;h-oi'hoA n exist in mmJyj a cose of chronic tetraethyl lead poi ac-ninpit nd .hr* hchoe stated tint any such c-iso ^ouM be a >s;oodic."i2 curiosity*0 ,;;.y rl : h' never boon denied by anyone* tetraethyl ty r;j ih the band..; inp of caneontrct.ed in any ir\'At>-?A <''>/al<?ii places, in thich it is round 5i serinus danger9 and X have been equally emphatic in ayin^ i: -/ 0 , ixhcrinsnts th'-'ti xsy- ejtnet'ianca hy...thf._onited.hhtat.eo > nblioat oss --Alsil... .............................................................................. tUld . hL,,,,t,,.,>^ wki'i ........... . ---TT" .........................."--I--.,,. t,,;*..., ..srasMTht ho.ior hl.;^vLoa..odo:^..-ith. errat-ivo,. r.osu1M * "If there ia any:no who disagrees r>'th mo <-.n t'ria, I do net. icmov oho it is* J thirih It In universal2y o: eoted it tlv: orcscnt ti/-ne that this is not a hazardous ' oocnr->Ttion irov tio- c int of view -tf 1 oxd*0 *s -m. *1 r..-.v oiths any rehervaiic-n :.. t. :.0 not . ovc br* HE 0022040 'u:\-.:'ore& any tfiabiiity or injury froo m , ccnneouenco of his ocotRistion oIthor a 'orittayy, ..5o\:;i>ry o contributory" fnotor A.a hie. illness ant a U:i,;f oaoetfiu y oybadtia'ti </- - * o,;th; :'; OCn5 ,Sq. , -VO" at av/, fh; oat.y.: or?/ -troet} ' * -j-eiG r:o * alii'* c to or, J.h.- cattle h e 0022041 : V*9C OV-"