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1 first started wearing a dust mask in the 1970s.
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2 Mr. Grewe indicated that beginning in the
3 mid to late 1960s he personally used joint compound
4 while remodeling homes as a side job.
5 He recalled exposure to asbestos-containing
6 dust when he used, mixed and sanded joint compound.
7 He recalled asbestos-free joint compounds by the late
8 1970s.
9 Mr. Grewe also stated that for about a year
10 in the mid 1950s he performed sheet metal work
11 installing new forced hot air furnaces in residences.
12 He recalled that strips of asbestos cloth
13 approximately six inches by one-quarter inch in
14 various lengths were incorporated into the sheet metal
15 pipe work he installed on top of the furnaces. He
16 neither handled nor cut the asbestos cloth.
17 Q Thank you. By my next question, I don't
18 mean that this is something that you should have done,
19 but you didn't take any.steps on your own to either
20 confirm or deny any of the parts of that summary; is
21 that right?