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FILE NAME Colonial Sugar Refinery CSR
DATE 1963 Dec 20 DOC CSR071
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter to CSR Building Materials Division from A.B.A. RE Dust Count Inspection Results
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Dear Sir
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Your DUST HAZARD -
and we shall arrange
from the same points
P.230 Your remarks are noted for a second set of counts to be taken after the completion of the Amerjet
The readings_quoted_range readings_quoted_range readings_quoted_range from very low counts
to
figures of 1000 plus
but the
This is an extremely wide
up
,
following table may tend to clarify the position
from the Mines Department point of view ~
Acceptable : 0 300 particles
for mining industry -It may be of interest to note that the
the W.^ .
average count
been
over the past two years has
19611962 -
274 particles
306
bl
On the question of a safe dust count this must be viewed
with a certain amount of caution
,
since a figure of 300
quartzite particles at Wittenoom in
material is far more
dangerous than a similar
figure say in Collie
As
general rule all those associated with the control of dust
satisfactory and industrial diseases regard a count of 300 as
Talking to Dr. McNulty on the question of lung diseases amongst our mill and mine employees his general comment was that the years 1954 58 were bad and that in his opinion
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PLAINTIFF'S
EXHIBIT
SYDNEY The General Manager,
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P.264
20/12/63
now actual there has been a steady improvement in succeeding years
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In this respect we are
awaiting the
statistics
from the Mi^-esDepartment
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