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C Urr Oillco To: T. Cole Jus f2 9 oq AH 75 SECURITY A SAFETY t . DEPARTMENT S Sclcntfiic ftoaoarch cuff April 14, 197 Subject: Exposure of Brake Maintenance Shop Workers to Brake Dust c ' * On April 11, 1975, I received a telephone call from Prof, Irving J. Selikoff,' Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University f , of ,New York, reyarding their investigation of passible -health hazards ` associated with respirable pm tides of asbestos and other substances to which workers in broke maintenance shops may be exposed, ' He indicated that their examination of brake shop `"^"7 is turning up some disturbinig findings relative to health offsets (he didn't elaborate) and that same physicians out West had found brake shop workers well repre- . son tod among lung cancer cases. ,, . __ Prof. Selikoff muld like to discuss these medical findings with appropriate repr-ti. ntu n "o*: fro.n the automobile companies and Johns-Mam/i 1 le Corp. at a pci r to uintting in New York in the near " . future. Ilo therefore a'.bed t.1 il his lfivitatian and intention to have rnch a meeting be brought to tne attention of interested parties at . Ford. , Hoy L. Gealer 006989 produced by ford