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& 20 THB LOUISVIUl UtteS, THURSDAY, CZTOK* 24, 1974 ^. Exposure to vinyl "chloride cited "` Goodrich workers file claims By DEKVTS rOUTE SMBofactaro of polyvinyl chlerid*, a Stewart said be filed web records. A major ingredient in plastic hoard spokesman said they wen not At. least i ton worker* at the BT. Six former Goodrich workers have died bled, and the case was dismissed. Goodrich co. Bell* Lane plant bare tiled of ran cancer, liter angiosarcoma. The A motion for reconsideration also was wortmcnVcrenpeniaiwn claim* against cancer is suspected o( being caused bp overruled by the board. the company because oi their exposure to exposam to vinyl chloride over tons pen* The workers atbo claimed they were Vinyl chloride. odx oi time. under the car* of the plant doctor. . Tw of the claim* were dismissed by m compensation board and have ben appealed to JtHerum anvil Court. The sum are still being considered, accord* tax to John Frith Stewart, attorney tor the mo, Workers John Ste*cn Sharp. 24. end Samuel T. Goto. 4fl filed e claim with the compensation board asking $84 a week for the rest of their iritx end medical expenses and dependent benefits. the workers' claim, according to oi/i* Stewart said Cost had worked at the plant 23 years ns a chemical operator. He said Sharp waa a chemical helper. The salt to Circuit Court asks that the dismissal oetira of the bond he reamed and the claim he heard on its merits. The case has been assigned to lodge . SkiIce Stewart said lie also has filed a death dab at the board, said they had aa or* Jones. claim with the board, baking a worker's cnpatiowal disease caused hr their work. The suit alleges the dismissal was an death te his employment. Hm company Hied a motion asking that "abase of diacmion" on the part of the BT. Goodrich said it would have ao the case either be dawitssod or that the board by Its failure to grant the tan a CMaawat. norites file medical reports with their hearing. Goodrich uses vinyl chloride to the dates, as required by law. Sccut said Gose had abnormal blood ... ................ " testa end was removed (foot his regular fob tar a time hr the company. He has* been returned to that job bow, stewtn /> **e&. ;v | the coisin^putm, Friday, October .-im m`A 13 Vinyl workers contest ruling Tww employes who say they hare con* tnried "an occupational disease" from exposure to polyvinyl chloride or* chal* lesging the dismissal of a daim they sub mitted to the Kentucky Workmen's Com* wensalMKi Board. Tb* men. Samuel T. Cose and John Steven Sharp, have filed separate suits in Jefferson Circuit Court, saying that they Cot the disease while working B. f. Goodrich Co. Tha suit* do not specify the nature or the extent of the disease. The salts say Gose end Sharp sub mitted claims for SM per week for the rest of tbeir lives, and for medical ex penses and some benefits for their do* pendent*, hut that the claim* were dis missed by the compensation board with* out a bearing. Both men ask that the court reverse the board's order and send the case back to tbe board for a trial The case* wer* assigned to Judge E. SkUas Jones. ----* - <y 24075001 BFG29333 Xarox coplaa to: A. Victoria K. 0. Scott J. 1. Molson E. B. Osborne X. Groan* t. B.t. J. Hunt Detmty B. M. C. Ivlckor c. row _, V. J. Wilcox g. w. Harrington H. Haltswata T