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FILE NAME Colonial Sugar Refinery CSR DATE 1960 June 29 DOC CSR115 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter to Govt Insurance Office from A.B.A. with Company Inspection Results & Efforts Made to Improve Conditions of tee, whl ane Me a 0 es. ' ' < ' ' P - AGUECTOS AUSTRALIAN AUSTRALIAN BLUE ASBESTOASBESSTOS EERRMIMTEIDTERMITEED ERMDITED TELIGHAPN^ ARGUDIE CLUCASCESTOS WITTENOOM WITTONOOM CORCE WESTON WESTON AUSTRALIA Gunoral Kim agar Torr^"ce Stuto Gavortment Insurance Office 15 St.Goorgo's FUTAI ... eae 29th June 150 Dear Sir . . acknowledgment We have for Jime oat your lotter or 20th Jime referring to Industrial Disonse or Nose clgins y. stated end Popoff worked in our stated the our the very dusty old 3 was exposed to plentfor periad stated end conditionsmost of that It i difficult > very men who togive any reasonable explanationexplanation for there are severa to have been with many yearsand who have been exposed of men show these the sameconditions and yet noneof men any signs of the disease. + oe any ee, ee onttomreaey, made on and sum We have every effort to reduce the dusty conditions a of 60,00060,000 spontcustcollection oquipmentinour old had plant and this enimmediate andbeneficial effect conditions ca for es the figures listedbelowwill show These counts taken by the InspectorofKinosiinn August Gust Skups puit n operation interly October To, Sau Refore Fotoclone Ecuipment After Fotoclons Eruinnen 420 250 Nos.1 & 2 Poss Chain Foodar from Oro Bin No.2 Conveyor Eelt 130 70 70 350 540 Feed to Blako Jaw Crunbar Jacques Crusher . . 37 170 730 1000+ - Vicinity Traylor crusher Discharge from Synsns to belt conveyor 180 540 1000+ 480 Vicinity of Cotra Kill Operating Platform for Polls and screens etc. 550 640- vicinitaynd screens 490 Operator's platfora 240 ; of Kubit breaker : fitro collection . - 440 360 1000+ 210 0 180 Vicinity Kos.3 & 4 Trommels Bagging section south sido Regging section r^,rthside Centre of fibre storage room Cutside plent Vicinity of = 320 320 500 150 50 Plast offico PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT 103880 Bitarel Bitarel . - Se ett aoe : In 1955 the Yontilation Inspector unde crocher vidt in nazywany with the Metrict Inspector and to wrote in his repoTO - Thereadings dust samples teken in Wition onKill are attached These are the best and counto ever outs^ned the District Inspector bear out the recent report by InspcetasInfotion This ainted that conditions were genetilly genetilly very good . - 2 During this time we were constructing our new Mill and every - precaution was taken to keep dust to a minimum The Colonial Kill commenced operations in June 1998 and try June 1959 three treatment units vero oporezing attention is givesto dest elinizties traud tula rondings are taken by Ventilation Inspectors During a recunt virit the Inspector Conditions werequite r~ the Mill retoried satisfactory ... Supervisory Staff are now mainte^>niaa high standard oror dust suppression clemmlingosclemmlingos this so and kill Sach report is similar to that you can ... sede clai conditions are satisfactory In December 1959 the Inions a *~ Board for a Dust Allousnes This uns hoord tofore a ^kr^ierdsca ne of of the Arbitration Court a 6A representative the salsment Registrer ORs representative of the Unions and a representative the CompanThye comments BE Ecard refused the application and the Chairman made the following ccoommemntms ents Bn he The latest dust count taken in September 1959 shows the highest reeding being dian nt 290 p.p.C.C. recorded on the north sido of the Bagging Section ers it was suggested by the Inspector that this dist was mainly from external r * : sources This count of 280 p.p.C.C. was extremely low and LOTO + compare~ . than with counts taken in vet plants in the GoldMining | fevourably - . Industry In October 1957 the dust courts varied from 400 to 1,000 plu . Kovember 1958 120 to 200 and August 1959 130 to 260 Zagg.Section 220 dist.collection Contay ode which clearly illustrates the great improvement dist.collection methods be From the Contayreportssubmitted by an Inspector of Mines and a k^zizen Inspector From Om of Mines it was conclusive that the present position was quite InspecSitsofractory Sisfactory meme : the At inspection I was impressed with the nature of the | dust eradication ~~ . @ plentand at the absenceof dust at manyope ooients @ f - _ S72 . in : Over many years I had experience various Goldfields and have inspectod many crushing end treatment and feel that, despite the dry crushing zdopted plants favourably method at Wittonoomthis plant comparos with other mini naturte he Industry one where dust cannot be svsidod pients _~ but where an employer is doing everything possible to eradicato dust and 4 thuscreate better working conditions and has in fact succeeded to the 2. LSS Health Officer sprdnction satisfaction of Inspectors of Wines and the health ofthe introved to the satisfaction of the Commonalth the annur owe Franting poe , ray examinations I do not feel that Board would be justified in dustallowance to anyofthe workerts he verioussections As pointed out in the Chairman's remarks the highest reoding vas . 280 p.p.C.C. and in this ense the dust would be from external sources counts _ We carry out reguler dust - we have a Watson Konizeter fo this purpose Recently we have ordered a new type of instrument moum ; the Midget Dust Impinger and this is used in the Asbestos industry for dusi oo : , Bri ee en or Seconten, an@ lh, emdte chet A, mt 08 tee ne vhald 6 re* ot . vestireto and fitro smpling This will enable to obtain concentrat of dust We have not yet received delivery of theinstrujent Wo quote hereunder an extract from a letter frin the Ontario Nining ^ ssociationin Toronto Canada We in Ontario uzo.the following general classifications for concentrati- of dust particles - 100 particles s por c.c. Up 300 . 50-60 bd 500-600 500-600 Over 1000 " a = Excellent = Good 7. Unir = Poor " These are readings taken by a Konimeter which is instrument by all Inspectors of Mines used ~ the recognis The readings listed hereunder are the results of the most previous tabulation of dust counts taken on the lease by the Inspector oi 26 and 27th August 1959 No.3 Adit Face 5 Level South Drivo Feca 52N Stops 515 South Stope Drive 525 Stope 525 West Stope Drive 3 Level 6012 Stope 1 Lovol 2050 Stopo Lower 1 Level 2080 Stope = = = s = =z = 2 Sm 5 150 Particles per c.c. 120 130 s . 150 150 130 100 160 _ fi " " fi e a a a . , * - 120 ba *. . Colonial Colonial Kill At Picking Belt = Noar Discharge from Syrens to = to Conveyor to Prinary Bin Severns Discharge belt to Drier .= Syzons At Crusher = No.1 & 2 Cersens = Around Cleening Vibrating Screens = at Bagging point = On Bagging floor north sids = 220 Particles per c.C. 160 " 130 210 160 ba fi 7. # " a a 210 220 220 " fi . It . 11 Australien Roth the code table above and the veedings at Australien Elua Astaster Limited have been arrived at through the use of aHonumit a s -4 . : So you tablo will seo that our figures compare very favourably with the codo In conclusion wo would advise that we give our clasast . aeftfteecnttsiovniltol tbheezocuutppbreesnseifoincainadlcollection of dust and we fool that the tee kindly assistance advise 4 If wo can be of further would you : mo. Oe le 07 +0 8 a faithfully Yours wa a;3 ShsS . te olit-p * =a . - : Kenager i) . r, 4 A OMA | . . . ~ : 7 ee .