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THE LOUISVILLE TIMES March 1, 197li ;: m ................... r~7------------------------------ 1961 death at Goodyear resembled cancer here Ky DONALD If. HOt'CHTOV *Dd DENNIS POLITE UWWf tlM MM WM tl MW. rsi tu UiUC, Goodyear ^ ju investigation was con tinuing. A chemical worker at the Goodyear' lire t Rubber Co. pilot in Niagara Falla,' The 1951 death was of a ~ N. Y,, died in 1941 of a rare Iona of cMj chemical operator in a vinyl- eeref Ibe liver similar to the canter that chloride processing area who ' killed at least five B. F. Goodrich Co. ea^ had ben exposed to the chem ployos in Louisville. ical for 15 yeara. . Goodyear today confirmed a cWk o9 it* medical records uncovered the dea s Iran hemangioendothelioma, a relatively The 1971 death is also the earliest now under investi ! rare canotr oi the liver. TK- company gation for apossible link with noted that medical authorities it to bo ainuiar to angiosarcoma. consider At teas the worker's exposure to the five Goodrich employes have suoeumbed chemicals. The five know BFQ to angiosarcoma bed with it and a sixth la hospital, j deaths occurred between 196U and last December and the first : Tht posed Louisville deaths of workers ex-i to vinyl and polyvinyl chloride-- three were reported by t he ! two chemicals basic to the p'.-sties Indus- company in late January try--have sparked an inlernstienal in1 vesttftitioo ot a possible link between the A meeting has been scheduled toroor- i chemicals and liver diseases. row in Washington at which medical au thorities v.iii attempt to establish a better i Earlier this week Goodyear adtnowl- set of procedures for earlier detection i edged that the initial review of its XI- to liver problems among vinyl- and poly- i agars Falls health records had revealed. vinyl-chloride workers. Another group ; a 1870 death from a hematoma, or maiig-- of medical experts will be meeting with nant cancer, of the liver cells and two officials of the Center for Disease con cates of cirrhosis of the liver, cce of trol and the National Institute for Occu which had proved lata] to a polyvinyl- pational Safety and Health. Or, Joseph Wagoner, director Of field studies and clinical investigations lor tht Nstionsl Institute, said the investigators haven't ruled out the possibility that other diseases caused by the exposure to the chemicals ios-olved in the manufae* taring process may be found. 23082001 BFG23776