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ETHYL cc: Eastern Region Messrs. T. S. DuBose J. M. Rollins CORPORATION U R* Pleck INTER-OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE TO Dr. R. A. Kehoe FROM H. K. Ball SU BJECT Management Safety Meeting, Esso Standard Oil Company, Baton Rouge, Louisiana a d d r ess ADDRESS da t e Cincinnati Tulsa October 28, 1954 The attached from Mr. Rollins gives information on the Management Safety Meeting held by Esso Standard Oil Company at Baton Rouge. This was discussed with you at our meeting in Chicago October 19. ,, We are attaching a memorandum which we hoped would con sist of the minutes of this meeting as drawn up by Esso, it is very non-committal, however, and merely indicates that regulations were ^clarified; Very /truly..lyxrs, BKB/cmh Attachments 0004795 i";v: ' v..' j. m. Roiiins - : Ifenageraenb Safety Keebing Esso Standard Oil Cor.gpaujy, Baton Rouge, La* : e,.-. ... . 7 L-, Bate a* ' ,; Oct* 8, l?!u Dear Hanks ..... , . .. .. , ,, . ... . , ... . Aa reported to you and Hr. Sleek b y telephone October 6, I participated in a round table discussion of medical rules and regula tions as applied to the operation of t h e four tank car type, blending , plants at subject refinery on Thursday, September 30* This report of the meeting has been delayed because I was hopeful that I would receive minutes of it, promised by Mr* E, ii, Cole of Esso* Present for the discussion were the following* E. 0* Miller, Safety Director, Esso . E. Ii. Cole, Asst. Safety Director, Esso J. Ii. Affolter, Jr,, Asst. General Foreman, Oil l-loveiaent, Esso W. H. Hutton, Acting Foreman, Pumping and Blending, Esso Fred Venable, iiedical Hygienist, Esso James Boole, Safety Engineer, DuPont ' J. M. Rollins, Safety Engineer, fchyl _ The request for the meeting came from Hr. Affoltcar, and was concurred i n b y Hr. Cole, Several weeks ago, the question arose- regarding the type and quantity of protective clothing ibso should furnish, to laboratory m e n for the handling of dhti-knodc comppund i n their small blends for aviation engine testirg* Hr. Cole called me to get some recent information on the subject, since the only copy of our Rules he could find was dated 193U* X gave him two copies of our 19h7 Rules, an d he tea able to get the laboratory matter settled* However, on reading these over, he came to the conclusion that all the rules were not being observed as they should be in the.r blending plait op ration, and he proceeded to tell Hr. ffolter what should be done. Hr, Affolter did not exactly agree with Hr, Cole, so they a-sked for clarification. * t. ..v.^.: The first item wa s footwear, Hr, Cole was insisting o n the use of boots for tank car connection work, the operating people objecting . that they were clumsy and liable to cause stumbling, the natter was ! resolved b y Hr, Hiller, who agreed thqr would determine the availabil ity of short white rubber boots or high-top shoes, since they did net want to provide tennis shoes without safety toes, I have since learned that bhell at Norco uses boots of the description given, which, while rather., hot to wear, can be t a ken off %he&^ the car ^unloading is completed. K f 0004796 The nuxt item m s gloves. They hare b e e n ;fcag'-bl^^ b b * ' : ; * ^ ' gloves, such as Esso furnishes their electricians, I recommended the Pioneer Elf series t o % , Cole and told him i&ene they could get them. Wenextdiec. tors to b e sure to leave them in.the b maskssware starfCi mask t o top o f oar befcr evening dome ng, X concurred in t h is * d^edded t h a t s t s e e th e .* wrongpX^e,buV^ .in'lastractipnslii fr70sattng:,<i^^^ th a t they .eg cbavaent, no dubt, t th car ' p ot#'.la'.,'^ lS f;^ esii^ :ilbfetax Bust in sid e th .doi o f th tabk. room, b u t th a t l ,c a s ; .f.l i a e b rea k a o ro th er accidents i n t h e "tnk^oam,.theirw ouldLhc^';b--ace5Blb3&:'w itt I 3 if recommended th e y be returned t o th e wash room, and as met w ith the ob jection th at thekfc-was in s u ffic ie n t storage space, X recommended th a t they cu t the cumber from fo u r ,to two, pd that I thou ^ it diey QOul i'ixid piace in tbs wash room j(sat : . The principal questions of the operating, department having b e e n answered* and no one having anything else to say, I tha4ffO^|ih,:up the subject o f hav ing .medical examinations of the men prior to their i&ejdng on duty at the blend ing plant I did this because in ray recent w o x k et t;| .plant X had heard the names oi three m m mentioned as possible relief men, none of whom are on either cur list or xhe last list of examinees by duPont, which I ha d obtained from the the regular foreman, Mr McQueen X asked specifically about these men, aid. learned teat m y information was just idle talk among the operators, but Mr* .AiTolter said that h e was planning to get some of the me n who may be in line for he work later over to the plant soon for training. I pointed out they should be approved b y our HedicaL Department before they work there, Mr. Venable then said t h t he believed there was an understanding between Esso's Medic aL staff and both Ethyl and duPoqt1 3 Medical Directors that would permit Mr. Affalter to submit t o Esso's local physicians the name of the prospective operator. If the record of annual exeminatioa performed b y Esso 's medical people did n o t indicate otherwise, then Esso's Medical Director on the local level could tell the operation people to transfer the man 1 0 t h e Lending plant. I told Mr. Venable I d i d not know of such an understandirg, and that under W present instructions, if 1 found such a man in the blending plant engaging in. work, x :ould have to a 3 k Mr, Affalter to remove him. At first, Mr* Venable seemed unable to understand m y position on this, so I repeated it i n ether terms. I pointed out that both Mr* Poole of duPont and I might b e transferred, that if we left nothing i n our files to indicate this understanding w a s in effect, our successors could very well create an unpleasant situation by insisting to the letter on the item of prior examination. I asked Hr.. Venable to request their Dr. ii. iicn-en, Medical Director, to write to both our Medical Director aid duPont *s to clarify this matter, and to request that if -arch ax understanding is in effect, we be notified in such manner that we'would nob b e likely to give i^sso any difficulty in the future* He finally agreed t o ask Dr. Hansen to do this. . I aL so brought up the matter of completing a tank car miiaadirg and washing without delay, pointing out that there was little chance under thsir present operations for delay, but that such might occur, and that we had other plants where this had become a problem, due to shift changes a nd failure to notify reliefs as to status of cars, with the result that w e received back at our plant gasoline and some of the fluid that customers were supposed to get* They promised to guard against such occurrence at this refinery* , The Esso people also brought up the rale about continuous attendance at tank car unloadings, but w found their worzy was about the necessity of the , man going to the dye house to add dye to mixes and the necessary work in lining up pump manifold valves for other operation* WQ assured them that he was in sufficiently continuous attendance if h e did not go further ITera the cars than . -3 The moderator of the mefeting throughout was Mr, Cole of E s s o 's Safety Department, I noted that M r. P o o le c& duPont v;as rot inclined to object very much to the method described by Mr* Venable for handling medical examinations, but I did not think it right to let his statements go unchallenged. If we did. Fir. Affolter could have perhaps as .nay as six o i seven men working part time in trie plant, undor. super vision of older, examined men, and for se v e re d months before either our doctor or cu. oat1 3 got to see them. It m ig h t be that they would work there f o r as much a 3 a or more beooro either jr. P o o ls or x would know about it* .f o..id when i.r. bole furnisuea m e with too minutes o*. the mooting which I recuesiea, 1 will forward thea to you. MEMORANDUM We handle tetraethyl lead (TEL) in our Lead Blending Plant and Knock Engine Laboratory in accordance with Ethyl Corporation and E. I. duPont Company safety regulations. On Thursday, September 30, 1954, a meeting was held with representatives of Ethyl Corporation and duPont Company to discuss these regulations. The following were in attendance: Mr. J. _VV. Affolter Mr. E. R. Cole Mr. W. K. Hutton Mr. E. G. Miller Mr. J. M. Poole Mr. John Rollins Mr. F. S. Venable Esso Esso Esso Esso duPont Ethyl Esso Generally, we are handling TEL in our Lead Blending Plant and our Laboratory according to the regulations. Two discrepancies were noted: 1. We are presently issuing leather shoes to Blending Plant and Labora tory employees in addition to personal protective and other clothing prescribed for employees handling TEL. These shoes do not provide protection against toxic effects of TEL. According to present TEL regulations, leather shoes should not be worn in the Blending Plant. Rubber shoes or boots supplied by the Company should be used. Foot protection is not required for Laboratory employees. 2. Canister gas masks are not being used by operators when loading or unloading TEL tank cars. This practice will be corrected. 2. Canister gas masks are not being used by operators when loading or unloading TEL tank cars. This practice will be corrected. There was a discussion concerning the interpretation of a number of other regulations. These regulations were clarified. ERColerBBB Safety Department October 12, 1954 KH* 00104799