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FILE NAME Manville JMA DATE 1944 DOC JMA194 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Report - Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation Alabama 1944 _NICKSTRIAL MYJISKE OLF BRIBILIS BRIBILIS CORPORATION CHICLS1 % AL we 4 have ik DS3X CONSULTANTS J KOIGI NO MAIMLAEIDLEMDAILED DIAS DIAS DIAS DIAS PP RRII PRN INN T TT COLLISION COLLISION COMMON Bee ae MEANENTRUMEANENTRU SAAT M^ MEANENTRU MEANENT5RU 7 **** M^ M^ ******* ******* ******* ******* ******* * ary 57 159159 STRUCTURES 10 Adnarsee King Er Panel 3. Washington D o. The following persons were interviewed or contacted during the course of this surveyi Er Harry Hill President and Oeneral Manager Captain M. E. Anthony Assistant to the General Manager . WP MAX Harrison Personnel Director ; Mr. Earle Smith Safety Director Mr. Clyde Walk~-rDay Shift Safety Supervisor Commander V. N. Davis USN Assistant Supervisor of Ship- building USH Lt. Ig J. K. Austin USNR Security Officer USN Mr. Ludwig Sheet Metal Foreman Mr. B. C. Possy Sheet Metal mizan ; Mr. Griffith Electrical Superintendent Mr. A. H. Townsend Assistant Manager Cafeteria References a Minimum Requirements for Safety and Industrial Health in Contract Ship- yards U. S. Navy Department - U. 8 Maritime Commission United States Government Printing offic Nashing- ton 1983 Industrial Health Survey by Dr. Philip Drinker et al August 12 - 13 1962 c Industrial Health Resurver by Charlas H. Mc0ill Surgeon U. 8. P. H. 3. July 7 8 16 1963 The services of the Regional Health Consultant are available upon request to the Regional Construction Offico U. 8. Maritime Commission 549 Baronne Street New Orleans 13 Louisiana The average number of employees for the month of , 4, February 1944 was 0,590 The total number of man hours during worked the same month was 1,697,092 during The yard has three types of contracts For the navy three destroyers and sloven minesweepers are being completed at the wet dock four minesweepers are yet to be built For the Maritime Commission vessels of the C2-3 type are being constructed - two are on the ways and two at met dock Under a Maritime Commission subsidy contract for the United Mail Line refrigerator ships of type AUI are being constructed - three even on the 178 Qa GENERAL RECOLELENDATIRECOOLELENNDATSIONS Seation numbers refer to and correspond with those those in the in reference body of a this report 1. Cjean the toilets in the Plate Shop Section 9.2 2 Provide mah basins industrial skin cleanser and towels at the various tollet rooms for men These need not be inside the buildings They could be placed on flooring outside the buildings and covered by a roof Section 3.2 3. Supply hot water to the proposed cleaning basins for respirators and goggles in the Safety Store rood Section 10 4. Return all used respirators from the various rosm to the safety store for cleaning and sterilizing before res issue Section 1-10 5. In the interest of attaining more faithful use of respirators by scelers and buffers make available to them a choice of reveral types of approved dust respirators Section 11.1 5 Stricter enforcement by supervisorn of the wearing of eye protection by those most exposed to eye hazards should be put into #ffect Section 13.2 7. Show the sound film Eyes for Victory to all supervisory Personnel and to now hires Section 2-13.2 8 Show the Blund film elders - To Your Health to welding department supervisors for the purpose of is proving the use of local exhaust hoses by welders in con- fined spec3 Saption -13.8 9. on the lowering shop materials before cutting whenever possible Section 20. Good housekeeping should be observed in housekeeping Q covering shop and debris should not be allowed Reason 5-13.7 5-13.7 Improve skiing facilities in promote their use by electrical lane regularly and resistant poured cable Additional lever equipment should be required titled titled H- Sanitary Moiljojen 0.1 Fooding a, In January of this year operation of the plant cafeteria was taken over by the shipyard mansgment Ur V. Cadanbaad a former ship's stovard and hotel manager was placed in charge Under his direction conditions have improved markedly and the public health rating of the cafeteria as giran by inspectors from the State Health Department has risen from 46 to 20. Vambers of the Health Department make inspections once or twice each month A survey of the cafeteria facilities disclosed no objectionable or Inasnitary conditions At the present time the onfeteria c rpares favorably with the best ob- serted serted ^finnumerous shipyards and the officials responsible for improving the operating conditions are to be commanded for their actions 9.2 Kater supply cevarage and waste disposal Water supply and saverage disposal have been covered in references b and c ^ rosurvey of existing toilet facilities in the yard is being undertaken by management with a view to- ward revising the facilitica both as to number and loca- ion The continued employment of women and the shifting of concentrations of employees to different areas has made buch & Survey nece27177 & number of toilet buildings about the yard ware Inapacted and with the exception exception of the men's toilets In the Plete Shop were found to be in fair condition Coursona in the Plate Shop had evidently not been olsaned for odng timo One wa not in good repair and was in a filthy condition Do waships facilities are provided at any of the general yard toilet locations Washing facilities are provided in the large locker room outside the yard but otherwise nons in easily available for the large majority of yard workers Thus few of them have an opportunity to mash up before taking lunch 10 Faspicato Proactive ggipmenit pment MBA Comfe metal fuse respirators are stocked in the safety store the tool room of the Plate Shop and in the supply room of the Paint Shop The Paint Shop also stocks Bink and American Optical Company chemical cartelicgarteeligecartelige respiratore Binks masko and Pacco line koods the Plate Shop little attempt de made lo claan and etarilize used respirators before they are re issued The Paint Shop issues aquipment to individual paintura who use the equipment until it is fouled up and 1484- the clearing and sterilising proceduras for uzud razpirators use poor and do not satisfy Section 12 of reference reference a Recently a work order has gone through For running water and a sink to be installed in the cafety atore. a A supply of hot water to be used in cleaning + the respiratory protective equipment was omitted from the proposed plane Hot water is very essential for satia- factory cleaning of the equipment prior to sterilisation It is recommended that a source of hot water be installed in the safety store It is recommended therefore that all used respirators be returned from the various tool rooms to the safety store for cleaning and sterilizing by the store attendant according to approved methods outlined by section 12 of the Minimum Requirements ..y Properly sterilised and repaired equipment can then be assigned back to the tool roons It is also desirable to package the equipment after sterilization By proper handling conservation and salvage of equipment may be attained and the use of the equipment by workers is encouraged ll Jobs xequiring respiratory equipmen . 11.1 Duat Metal Time Cumfo respirators are issued from the Paint Shop to workers doing scaling and buffing Bureau of Mines Approved dust respirators would be sufficient and bagause of their somewhat lower breathing resistance might be used more faithfully by buffers and sealers It is suggested that several types of approved dust respiratora oe bu tried and the type auped for their use preferred preferred by the word 11.2 Hotel ** and oko oko s by wuldars wuldars when their wolders on Most use of the metal fuss^,re pirators pirators Le kade kade working under the shelter shelter cour the plata work involves involves galvanized galvanized steel Fow the hells appear to use respirators abop A considerable exposure of nelders and bezero bezero la present in the Sheet Hotel Ciob xtales system consisting two Sever of orinch flexivio flexivio retai and exhaust hose for sich worker The The obs hoess ** very very each moldar or or careful to keep the and of the sucker silcin tance from the source of fuss SSolovolnt voSnolvtont vapoca vapoca vapoca Spray painting is done to come extent in on a large scele near the pickling Sank ships Spray men use stanical Gartridge their exposure to mists and vapora le the heavily contaminated contaminated abispheres lead Bin gause respiratora Tasco line hoods are worn under- Respiratona 2-10 of this report Bo 13 Prevention of Industrial Diseases 13.2 Aro flash and foreign body eye injuries Out of a total of 3348 first ald cases reported reported %, : ~ during February there were 433 aro fleshsa and 1136 foreign : 08808 of bodies in the eye Eye cases thus constitute about 30 of the total total new casos ; Host of these eye injuries are minor in charac- tor It should be pointed out however that among th'n | there are many potential cases of lost eyes and certainly the loss from even minor eye injurios - in reporting 4 to first aid for initial and treatmenta - is an iton to be considered Enfornement by supervisors of the wearing of eye mooded protection by to reduce the those most expreed to eye hazards is incidence of eye injuries It would be helpful also to akow the sound film Zyes Por Victory to all supervisory personnal and to new biros The film and record can be purchased from the National National Saiety Council 13.3 Lead Poisoning The spray painting with red lead prosents & serious danger to those exposed to lead mists - not only to the painters timsalves but also to others in the Luntediate vicinity of spreying operations Painters 07 wear the protective equipment equipment equipment provided and the work should be segregated as much as possible If it is necessary for others to be in the vicinity of apray womt they too siculd . Quay probootive equipsant Exposuro of welders and paint paint until welding has 13.6 Solvent vapo been completed Ses section -11.3 of this report 13.5 Diao fuss fever Zine chilla Tuore vure cases to the fira #id station during none none airing airing airing vey Axe On board the hulls it was noted wolds working on Calvanized steal wordcerful the local dust ventilation hoses within from their arc Continued supervision welders about the proper use of chavet vanition insure a low incidence of matul Juma VT #ICON xhaust hoses if the openings openings are 2 15 the arc will remove celly cluded kept sich & to % 100 of the the fans fans ms 15. 6 17 Fiberglas end Asbestos No abuses in the use of Fibergles An sional case of ferentiils from the source faroportat faroportat The covering shop we inspected for svidences of asbestos dust expOBUF Amosibs 30 nabosto and asbcntos cloth are the prinsipal prinsipal handled Although the air of the shop was not -10- dusty at the time of inspection workmen reported that conditions became very bad at times and the accumulations of duxt wiring and structural members of the building bore out their statement & Prolonged inhalation of sabestos dust may re- ault in a disabling lung condition known as asbestosie The onest of the disease in alow and its course resembles that of silicosia To control dust in the shop the following procedures are recomsendad~- 2. Materials should be worked wet whenever possible Small sprinkler bottles to be used by the worke men should be provided 2. Good housekeeping abould be observed and debris should not be allowed to sccumulate Sorap material on the floor should be wetted down 13.8 Bilicosis Sandblasting and zino metallizing are done in the open in a remote section of the yard near the piokling tanks Satisfactory protection is afforded the sandblaster an ippinet supplied smak and an abrasive blesting hood A supplied mask is worn by the metallizer also Helpers working near ths metallizing operationa should be cautioned against breathing the zino fumes produced If it is necessary for them to expose themselves metal fume respirators should be worn These respirators respirators -11- are provided but negligence in their use m^/a observed 13.9 Cormatitis ~ Although a very few oessa of dermatitis have occurred among the electricians non has been of the chloracne Sype traceable to the handling of electrical cable containing chlorinated hydrocarbon synthetic wires in the insulation Much of the beat and resistant multi- conductor cable for Nery vessels docs contain zmathstio wazes and the possibility of an outbreak of chloracne especially during the hot weather to coms among sle stri-le tricians stripping and handling such cuble la extremely good Print washing facilition in the electric shop are inade- quate tonela There are not ere providad enough tape and no scap and and paper It is recommended therefore that adsquats washing facilition be provided and that the exposed men be cautioned to ran up thoroughly at the end of each half shift 14 Ventilation Standards 14.2 The adu^nistration of the Vantilation Division Mabel Deplotment osforman of th^>ch is under the dire supervision of & The Safe cclartmaas ba the ice ice ith the sheet Department information on pacific cal conditione ~ia- en ventilation procedures ~ 14.3 Personnel of department A. In addition to one leaderman on each shift arew in sumposed of the ventilation At the presentotfime vessels in various stages of blower equipment a total of twenty construction require the use Since this total includes three destroyers and seven large size cargo and refrigerator refrigerator ships the demands for blower nervios Eu pest Increased demands in the coming hot weather are anticipated and as appointment is done there will be a need for the usually * of more men to the ventilation crew especially on the welding night night shift on which a large mount of production is done Appointment of men to the crew now would give befor the exple time for their training by the supervisore hot weather starts 5. Ventilation men are trained by the super- visor on the job of the sound of which is in the This would be emmmented by the showing film #Golders - To Your Health a co7y of the Training Directer possession in the shipyard RT Se LE 7.0% of SS wente ig gt SR eg 2-14.4 Tral ofEquipment Number and description of fans on band~- 32 ILG centrifugal blowers ILO Electria Ventilating Company Chicago Ill 1 HP motor about 800 ofm capacity Sawyer amall Sawyer Masters Sawyer Mectric Manufacturing Company rated at 1200 cfm EP motor large Sawyer Master Blowers & F motor 1200 cfm American Olower Company propeller type fans axial flow 3 HP 30,000 cfm Ko fans are on order at the present time 80,000 feet of inch flexible metal duct an additional 10,000 feet are on order About fifteen 12 rest lengths of inch Glamster Flexhaust duct has recently been obtained for use on board the hulla under construction It will be noted that with the exception of the two large propeller type fans which are used to supply air through the destroyara permanent duct work the for fans are of small capacity and adapted local exhaust through short lengths of particularly thres flexible metal tubing ay 14- ? , 15.4 Ventilating Frocedures : * . Local oxhaust the removal of ums , eof source be distinguished from general ventilation A supply of large volumes of air to diluts the |. is the man generally relied upon in this yard the vectilution ores do a good job of providing weldare confined spaces with local eximust hose and % te that discharge is always vads to the open air Welders in this yard are above average making proper use of the local exhaust hosea some room for improvement howavar 08 19 3 #oted in : several ships that sous welders failed to hold the sud the exhaust hose to within six or eight Double bottom sectionz of gerator ships are ventilated by exh 'ustingals thug thug \ hole especially especially out for the purppurpose ose in the tick top aboa zidway bates the two manholes On one ship the obse that this cathod was supplemented by supply of air throu three hose to individual welders in the wo pencia sections of the double bottom tanks three blowers to effectively exhaust 1616 nee ou qu qur r from one tank tank tank whoreae if larger blowers were provided ons would job with a consequent saving of installationinstalation and and and main main main main main ^' benance of timo SRE ll EAI Ea re ee a after peaks and Bachinery powered by HP unter unter a 8000 ouble feet of air per ^ bout10 such units supplemented pasal Cot of inch diameter diameter to are aeeded to me the recom Vensliation proceduras .