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t TO ^r K A. Kehoe FROM Mr. 0. B. Lewis SUBJECT e t hy l c o r po r a t i o n INTER -OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS Cincinnati ADDRESS New York DATE January I4 , 1943 K 0006072 4 '.' *- MEETING HELD JAKTJAfg 11. 19Ak m THE CAUr o mi A TEXAf C O M P A Q . . M m COMPANY Present at this meeting were: C&l-Tex - Mr. r. K. Pinckard, Vice President Ur , J, E.- Keith, Research & beveloping Dept. Mr. F. Aldiuger, Chief Engineer Texts Co. - Mr. 0. B. Sa&ll, Supt. of Csrribe&n division. Mr. F. Hallager, Supt of Operations Ethyl Corp. -Mr. 0. 5. Lemis Dr. R. i. Kehoe (also Agso. Ethyl) This meeting vos called at the request of Ir. R. A. dehoe upon hir. return from England and the Fear East. lie stated that he wished to get the amnageaep.ts of the oil companies operating ahroac together for a discussion of some new phases of hazards associa taci with the handling of leaded gasoline. IT. Kohoe explained to those present that the enlarged hazards is a result of the wider distribution of leaded gasoline, which in turn has occurred because of the war, ic felt that the California Texas Company would bo interested in nis report on tie hrein instails*,tion. iie discuar-Gc. this one nee several point; Fuch of the difficulty of operating rith the former install?,tior. nr:r! .securing uniform blends in tank ship compartments because of the long connecting pips line and because of the lack of check of ti\<- finished gasoline. -For this reason he felt that concen trations of gasoline' higher than allowable might well bo found ir, some comportments. while on the subject of tank ships, hr. Kehoe aentioneb that ho hue discussed, this matter with operators in England and a&<ie a draft of regulations to cover safety in cleaning end repair operations, he stated that he had a cable that this had been found acceptable with a few exceptions which were being forwarded at this time. lie procuce'd a ssuli booklet to cover the tank cleaning problea enn sundry new problems such as pipe line operations, garage and filling station tanks, end rail aid road tank waggons. It was his suggestion that v;e print sufficient copies of these ir this country and give them to the oil companies operating abroad for as wide-spread distribution ee possible. He pointed out that most of the instructions were already probably being followed, but with new operators end many new stations, it would be wise -to re-circulute this booklet. (It is now being distributed K& rl/j%r .? O Ho i o 3 N7638.01 to the management with the reues t that they infora Ethyl Corporation how atny copif.s they Till recuire for the. .above purposes.) The second p*.rt. of hr. Kehoo'e twlk hud to do vdth conditions ts he found, the in, can fII.ing aBtab-tiFhaents ht stKt^d th.=t many canes of leco. intoxication and sows nine deaths hnc occurred because of rapid evaporation of gasoline in hot. climetet. Because of the air conditions ventilation was faulty end temperatures run up to 116 - 130 degrees F. He feunti atrocious spillage in several plants with practically complete evaporation, meaning that the lead content of tire gasoline was also left in the atmosphere with the evaporated gasoline, thus giving exposure to both toxic'cubstances Another factor' in the lend intoxication of workaen v e a the additional lead concentretions (/+.? pc per gallon; in avi? tion fuel, "his compare? with 2 cc of lead for 8 octane fuel handio at oimiler installations. There vas serao gasoline intoxication reporter in the installations There 80 octane gasoline vus being handled. At all of these installations ventilation was entirely inadequate. it ui-s Lr, K&hoe's opinion that the 1etc. coses had becosh- severe in the third week of exposure end that there would have been i:. goad chance for recover if the ten had been taken off tun work at any rime up to the second week, he euggosted There it tub necessary to work men unuer conditions of lone exposure, it would probably be advisable to work them one week and put them on other work where no lend exposure could occur for a period of two weeks, or eouio such relative lengths of time. ,'>p to avoiding gasoline toxicity, it would seem sore advisable to shorten the period of rotation to something in the magnitude of i two hours on job where exposure occurs and then two hours off. tr. iJLrilnger mentioned that they wore buiIcing t;ruv. plant ir, Bahrein and several of the men stated that they night also have to fill cans at this point. For this reason the visit van most timely and they ere anxious to get a copy of j t . leh.oe1s regulations on this matter so that the design of their instal-oticn could taxe advantage of . his suggestions. They suggested ihst possibly using rubber gloves might protect the Wi B' r. nance, but I'r. Kehoe felt that this material had drawbacks one' that the matter sight be solved by using proper skin cresas, ho iB.er.tianex' , hosnver, that the large exposure was not through the skin but through inhalation. He felt that tho transportation of flimsy or any other leaking contrsir.ere r-houlc also be carefully fetched us it vs possible5 th*>t somewhet similar conditions to the cun filling pillage and evaporatier might occur in other parts of the world under present war conditions. As h. pea ce-time regular operation in u standard plant he felt that tese ha cards would be very greatly' reduced or might even bo non-existent. 0006374 Meeting Held January 11. IQ//, For . Doconv-Vscutis Present -:t thin meeting' were? Ur. J . L. Hisinger - BocGny-V&cuunt Mr. E. H. Sti-ber -- Director, Standard Vacuum sir. L. C. hasilln ) Mr* K* F* Standard Vacuum Salea & Engineering Mr. F. Tsrbox ) Mr. 0. B. Lewis - Ethyl Corp. Dr. R. A. Kehoe - Ethyl Corp. & Asso. Ethyl Ltd. This eeeting was culled at the request'of Ir. a . A. 'Kehoe upon his return from England and .the Near East. He stated that he wished to get the managements of the oil companies operating abroad together, for a diseuA&ian of some new ph.r-es of hazards associated with the handling of leaded gasoline. Joe Eleinger, Director of Safety for the Socony-Yucuiua group -set hr. Kehoe ene ayself end t?e had & brief discussion before going info the meeting room. He inquired about the cleaning of t^nk ships which had come to his attention from hie own tank ship operators. Dr. Kehoe oentio* to him that one reason for an noeitionf-l hazard from leaded gasoline w.-s that thene ships secaeti to be in ccrttimt.il instead of intermittent service, he mentioned that a study was now being made of potential hazards, but that in his opinion, the repair work was the riost important and at least should be investigated* e then went into the meeting roca itere Dr. Kehoe did tiie talking, and he sfc.de two main headings fer his presentation, ae he hod- at the meeting fer the California Texas Company an? The Texas Company earlier in the day. In discussing the more wide spread use of gasoline and the tank cleaning problem, Dir. Stuber aentionecl that he had recently had a case of some trouble in tank cleaning in India. Dr, Kehoe showed that cuaiit'tively the problem was the same but that because of the for reaching ranifi cetions of the war ano lite gasoline tankage necessary to curry' thi:- on he felt that it would be wise to forward instructions to all foreign operators even though this be to a certain extent a repetition of information we hed already supplied them. Hr. Stuber stated that Standard Vacuum had already forwarded the American Petroleum Institute booklet B to all their foreign stations but he indicated that they were entirely willing to forward this Additional information and that this eeeaed to bo a good idea. Coating to the discussion on can filling, the talk followed very such the lines of that in the previous mentioned meeting. It was pointed out that drum filling operations, at least as far as Dr. Kehoe had observed, presented no hazard. 0OC6G75 2 It is the filling of five gallon drums In cens down to smaller sizes and through many different types of nosales not suiter to the cans where the spillage occurs leaning to the possibilities of huge evaporation. Under high temperatures it would be theoretically possible, he stated, for the percentage of tetra ethyl lead in the atmosphere to be ns high as the percentage of tetraethyl lead in the gasoline. He stated that five milligrams of tetraethyl lead per liter at 25 degrees C (77 degrees F) would be enough to give a fatal result in approximately 30 minutes. Mr. Stabor stated that there- trill be a good deal of can filling in India, and such, installations are non being constructed. His company has some patents for "underseal" filling which entirely eliminates spillage and evaporation. However, as Dr. Kehoe pointed out, he felt that the regular installations in many cages were safe but it was the necessity for using both improvised equipment and whatever cans were available that had lead to the trouble, never theless, he agreed that the "undersea!" filling idea of Standard Vacuum was excellent. tap. Kehoe mentioned several additional problems that had come to his attention in England such as the fact that the British have no filters on Arsy cook stoves arid that trouble had been encountered from lead. Also, as a word of caution, he had found out that when tanks had been cleaned of leaded gasoline to the extent that they could safely store alcohol it could not be assumed that they had been cleaned sufficiently for the storage of most soluble oils such as edible oils somewhat soluble to tri-Fthyl salts. Mr. Brewster was introduced and asked to see Dr. Kehoe fcbeut e matter in France. Mr. Maxwell and Mr. olden, sttornies, interviewed Dr. Kehoe briefly about legal matters in thir country. k e : 0 0 fi6 o 7 (j