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FILE NAME: Drywall Spackling Compounds (DWSC)
DATE: 1974 May
DOC#: DWSC076
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo from Georgia Pacific with Attached Magazine Excerpt - "Asbestos Danger Cited"
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Perhaps it won't happen. But then,
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come so Important?
The construction industry had lit*
MONO - KO' tie idea what was over the horizon
when the Occupational Safety andi Asbestos Danger Cited
Health Act was passed by cona
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In due course, OSHA develop
Taping and spackling compounds used in drywall finishing may ex
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into a major source of concern for
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a ll contractors. Everybody's /for pose workers to dangerous levels of
safety, of course, and few thqoght asbestos fibers, according to OSHA
passage of the federal law
officiala.
make very much difference in
The warning followed an exami
ducting a business. It's made a yhale nation of 17 members of a New York
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nf a big difference.
City painters* local. Tests showed
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Congress has created anothe bu the lungs of nine painters had X-ray
b reau which hasn't received a treat evidence of fibrosis, or excessive se
deal of attention. Maybe it
cretion build-up in the lungs.
have too mueh impaet on eons
Employer groups and unions are
tion. On the other hand, it eouii
being asked to alert workers to the
come a bureaucratic giant affa ig almost every business.
potential hazard, said federal safety authorities.
Mad* especially for
It's the Consumer Product Safet;
Nathan Kimmel, Ine.
y Commission, which b e l i e v e s the
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home is second only to the automo bile as the most dangerous "product"
Moosbruggtr Passas
Will fit Thomsen and Essie
on the market today. If CPSC is all
Longtime iaWCC member Louis J.
plastering guns.
that worried about homes, why not Moosbrugger died in Lake Worth.
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offices, warehouses, and all build ings?
Florida, in February. He founded Northwestern Plastic Art. Milwau
NATHAN KIMMEL, Ih
The Commission reasons that since
I: it has jurisdiction over appliances, it
kee. in 1933. and developed the NuStone system of simulated stone
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wiring. The wiring's attached to structural framing, so that too must
western Plastic Art 1c Nu-Stone Co lne.. is now h ead ed by his son,
(213) 427-SS56
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