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1 occurred.
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2 BY MR. RUCKDESCHEL:
3 Q Okay.
4 A I don't want to characterize it as a time of
5 substantial grinding.
6 Q I didn't think you did.
7 A The best evidence for supporting my argument is
8 really the time frame of when the epidemiology data
9 were collected and analyzed. That is to say, those
10 people in those studies were generally working in
11 the '50s, '60s and '70s. And that is certainly the
12 time when grinding would have been more common. But
13 I'll just say for the purposes of answering your
14 question for the 2003 paper.
15 R'delsperger et al., in '86 mentions that his
16 mechanics are involved in grinding and turning of brake
17 linings as well as blowing out of brakes. Johnson,
18 Zumwald and Roberts in their January 29th, 1979 report
19 mention that they were looking at service operators at
20 least in Facility G and maybe others that involved pad
21 grinding, riveting and punching. It was a truck
22 facility. And I expect, although I haven't looked at
23 it more carefully, I think there is going to be other
24 grinding occurring there.
25 And then in Johnson '76 which is the one I
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