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t. i :1 ;" g 18 THE LOU15VIUJE TIMES, WEONCSOAY, ASK5U57 7, 1774 -* m m m> m Eighth liver-cancer victim from local plant discovered > ?. y v1 F-w. VC-; < By DSSMS POLITE of former Goodrich employ*~TO&weiler studies are under way to see ji the vinyl UrttnM Tion SM Wt*c The cause of death of a former worker tl The B. F. Coodrirh Chemical Co. plant here has been *ttr;bated to assiofarcoisia, a rare how of the liver. The man. who ditJUn 19 at 2re!and Army Hospital at Ft. Knot. Ky, worked at the Goodrich frcilfty iron; 1950 to ISM. The Goodrich plant produces vinyl wide. Exposure to vinyl chloride is ajht to c-iUK angiosarcoma. Sewn moreen at the Bella Lane plant have been diagnosed a* harts* the cancer; fiufpf the caw* were discovered after the men died. Two men with the cancer art ItSJ alive. v; "V ' " said the death certificate of' the man chloride ia polyvinyl chloride pews any i who died in 1889 Hsu the cause of death danger to the public. Also, air studies ; as angmarcoma. and says the cancer had around the plants have been taado. . i spread to the lungs. Vinyl chloride is used to produce 1 He said the Communicable Disease Center would inverbgate the death fur. tber, including all autopsy records. polyvinyl chloride, a major ingredient is 1 many plastics. j A rpotewnan at the Wwriaicftoa office | of the job-safety institute said the latest ! Both spokesmen for the job-aafety in discovery "is what I attUriprlcd *a j stitute and Goodrich said it eras not going to happen." j known at this Ume where the man He said that although other plants that , worked before or after his employment at produce vinyl chloride have not yet j Goodrich. He died at age -44. found as many cases as has the Louisvill* j Although the Other workers . bad. worked at the plant for between 12 and 29 years, the dead man's length ot service works. `It is too early in that one plant is going mow than the other." the same to ray to produce way i \ of only four years, may hvi to new S* other e*s (cm up Since Goodrich announced ia January of this year that it suspected exposure to the bhctmcal causing the cancer, a worldwide search has turned up 18 other ctvf-C including some among worker* theories on the amount of exposure that causes the cancer, Waxweiter said. Be said the short period of work time at Goodrich makes the case "very inter* wring at this stage." Government take* action Dutch goof In Java: wrong frees* planted, for getting quinine who were exposed to by-products of vinyl rileride. ' The discovery of the eweer-emin? I.CVIA. Peru -- For a 5h> time, da-, Goodrich oUttuir seid today the record oa the eighth case is sketch)'. They said t thev dwt know \<t what department iff* irtfca w-orsed tn-wh:.' he wt* at the iter!. properties of the chegucal a pas. and its wide presence in various consumer prod ucts have led to several recent governasentaJ actions. chona was widely sad, oharpty disputed I and little understood This tree, from whose- bark osiiic.e was extracted, was not sdcniifcaSy i&taUfied 15X-.: The caw was uncovered by federal in vestigators working on a study of all for mer Goodrich employe*. 'Bxhsrd Wajcwviler. principal inveftV(tier c<a the project, laid iS&Q person* i>c hare worked si ;t* plant have to be checked out. The government standard oa the allow, shle mount of exposure to workers was amended from 800 pans per nnilion parts of air to 59 parts. A recommendation from the fobeafety Institute to the L\ S. labor Department to reduce the allow able exposure level to sun is under study. cntil the-ieth century, and the principal chemical constituents were not isolated cntil the 19th. Even then, drug oeaim did not da* tineuisb between efftcacious cinchona specie* sad those of little or no medical value. When the Dutch established crest cin chona plantations on Java in ISSO. moct The National Institute of Occupational Some aerosol products using the chem of the million trees planted jawed to be Safety and Health is conducting tie study ical have been taken off the market and ( the wrong variety. ._? (l1 jig ^ilLu :;uAL* m* fbw M-v&i 4<si*urU'tfiA /! ; j ri - - \ =;. r , BFG03483 Copies to; A. Vittone R. D. Scott J0 1.1 V A. kJU hi W. Harrington Waltemate fO o H. G. Zwicker Pow J. Wilcox J. Weaver / B. Downey v C/1 Ho O fC E. B. Osborne R. P. Kenney - A. L. Hatfield - C. R. Flynn K . t >t t e tj t__ BFG03484