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TTw Industrie* Commission Of Ohio July 27, 1979 Legal Section . Industrial Commission of Ohio 246 N. High Street Columbus, Ohio 43216 Attn: Guy Sheaffer RE: . Claim IOD13634-22 Shirley A. Mitchell Fisher Body Division General Motor Corp. Columbus, Ohio 43228 Dear Mr. Sheaffer: On July 5, 1979, a visit was made to the Fisher Body Division of the General Motor Corporation, 200 Georgesville Road, Columbus, Ohio, to observe the working conditions tinder which the claimant, Shirley A. Mitchell, was employed. Contact was initiated at the plant with Mr. Russell Evans, Safety Director of the plant. He referred the investigator to Mr. R. F. Denham, Supervisor of the Division's employee benefits. Mr. Denham provided the claimant's employment and health record for a thorough, first hand, examination. It was learned that the claimant initially applied for employment at the plant in 1956. On that occassion, she was refused employment for medical reasons. Eight years later the claimant applied again and was accepted. She began work on August 13, 1964 as an "Assembler" of automotive parts. On July 30, 1965, the claimant suffered a collapsed lung and was off work for three weeks. She claimed her condition was the result of having had to work in smoke and acid fumes. However, no com plaint was filed at that time. Claimant stated that the working : * Legal Section Page 2 oc conditions to which she was exposed, in January and February of 1977, involved considerable quantities of glue and its fumes. On March 17, 1977, Dr. Dale Dickens performed a cholecystectomy, to remove several small stones which were suspected of being the cause of her history of severe epigastric pain. More than 24 hours after the operation, she began to have difficulty breathing. It was discovered that her right lung was congested with 50 c.c. of clear, transudate, fluid. The patient responded favorably to treatment and recovered quickly. It has been diagnosed that the claimant is suffering from a low grade dyspnea. At the time of her latest disability, she claims to have been exposed to fumes from glue while on the job. Mr. Denham escorted the investigator to the assembly area where the claimant worked at the time of her disability to locate the glue operations and identify other possible sources of fumes for collecting atmospheric samples. The area visited is currently identified as Department 9. A walk through the area revealed that no glue operations are being performed by any of the assemblers in that department. None of the assemblers interviewed registered any complaint regarding smoke or fumes. This, in conjunction with the fact that no operation utilizing glue was located in the area, led the investigator to decide that collecting atmospheric samples, under conditions as they currently exist would serve no useful purpose with regard to this claim. The conditions in the shop and the medical information released in the various reports leads the investigator to conclude that the claimant's working environment would not sustain her.claim for an occupational disease. HF:ced