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R&S 004431 -*c -v;----- ; r.~ // "TT;' " . ij " ' :V'*4 - SUN-DEMOCRAT. PADUCAH. KY. 4 Emergency Rules Set " For. Vinyl Chloride WASHINGTON. D.C. (AP) - was called following last rThe Labor Department's Oc month's disclosure that at least cupational Health and Safety jfour former workers at Louis- Administration was asked at an iville's B.F. Goodrich Co. plant inquiry Friday to put emergen ihad died of a rare form of can cy standards into effect to pro cer. The four hod been exposed tect workers involved with vin to vinyl chloride over an aver yl Chloride. age of 13 years each. Officials of labor and medical After the disclosures at the researchers pointed out that 6.- Louisville firm, federal medical 500 laborers are now working in jofficials declared angiosarcoma the production of vinyl chloride I a new occupational disease. and polyvinyl chloride. jThey tagged vinyl chloride as Chemical industry represen 'the probable cause. tatives said there was only cir cumstantial proof that there is a cancer-link with exposure to vinyl chloride and polyvinyl chloride. They urged a slower regu latory approach in dealing with the situation. The hearing in Washington SUNDAY. FCBRUAgYj^lgZi- RECE1VED FEB 211974 > . J. T. BARR v VJ.TT" Fifth Goodrich Employe May Be Cancer Victim LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) --jtion) due to widely metastatic time in the vinyl-chloride' oper Angiosarcoma, a rare liver; angiosarcoma of the liver." ations. cancer, may have killed a fifthl A Goodrich spokesman said In the latest case, the man . ,, t- records show the employe dwieadsw5a2: and had worked for 20 employe of tto B. F. Good ich q{ a hwrt condi[ion blU he saidiyears as a chemical operator. CO., the Louisville Times re the company is making a fur Goodrich has rested 270 em ported Friday ther check. ployes who worked in the viny- The copyrighted story said a Goodrich already has ac- chloride operations and said 55 1964 death certificate showed a'knowledged the deaths here of turned up with liver abnorma' man had succumbed to "car-ifour other workers from liver lities and would be retested. 'diac tamponade and massivei cancer betwen 1063 and last De-1 ----------- left hemothorax (a heart condi-icember. All had worked at one t i X