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FILE NAME Caterpillar CAT DATE 1971 Oct 20 DOC CAT043 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newspaper Article - Asbestos Dust Called Killer Asbestos dust 10/20171 called killer By STEVE ROCHMAN ' Staff Writer + There is no doubt about it + .nsbestos dust is a killer if st gets into your longs The man who was speaking was James Middleton bush ness representative for the international Cheaucal Workers Union Local 60 in Waukegan the end of three days of hear ings bulore the IPCB which is creating regulations to protect the public and workers from asbestos adments Hearings also were held in Granite City and the Field Museum in Chicago Chicago We read & great deal about emission control standards management out environmental team to work out methods of dust control it also led to a special asbestos dust hearing, m Waukegan M officials termed the se- Tips the work of a local busybody troublemaker trying to muddy up M's good name according to an IPCB investi- Asbestos dust will get into the lungs some way if it is not controlled he added and we feel the respirator used by employes is not good * Alldheton said the union has adopted a walt attis tude to see how for the cons Some 25 environmental ez- Skid Middleton but we sel dom come in contact with the gator . miller can go in cleaning up the plant . The But the Invesilgator Invesilgator added the in perts concerned citizens and people working with the prod danger not only is the 1971 aded investigation indicated M handling of asbestos said Mid- 1971 representatives of the Johns- ucts , Manville Company plant la had a great deal more to do dleton , It was Waukegan sat and listened Middleton brought employe Workers leave the plant 20 even though a'lenderpro- teclid^n field enviroenvnironmmenteal ntal their Samuel T. Lawton Jr il problems to the attention of teclid^nfor asbestos workers with dust on clothes OCTOBER Steve nols Pollution Control Board News reporter Roth said They cany into their OCTOBER workers were member eyed the wary union man last June Middleton sa cars Into the stores where OCTOBER i exposed executive with interest He provided death certifl to dust when unload- other people buy products and OCTOBER railroad asbestos There is a hard road cates on two workers who ing cars of homs OCTOBER material and OCTOBER making nhead to improving conditions ded of ailments caused by pipe in Their children come in con- ; In the Waukegan plant long exposure to asbestos dust the transite pipe division us tact with the dust and get it un . WEDNESDAY | added Middleton but we are in in the plant well as its making theu . lungs when play they play oonn WEDNESDAY looking Diocese looking Inward the day when A perice of New Sun . . The showed has the chuch where their ratne WEDNESDAY showed J we can pull off our respirators cles led to a promise by M company sit to rest he added WEDNESDAY where and work without them us officials to clean up the four it is WEDNESDAY mapklianngi hneot WEDNESDAY provements plants it operates in Wauke- in the Middleton said he felt workers i but WEDNESDAY i Middleton's testimony came at gan and to create a umen said the problem has not been solved should be provided clothes which would be left in the 1 . . ne t re plant at the end of the day or ILL i some means of cleaning the ILL : dust from their clotlung belore , { they went home WAUKEGAN Gaddam Reddy an lili- WAUKEGAN N. WAUKEGAN nois Environmental Protection Agency environmentul engi WAUKEGAN WAUKEGAN ncer sald he felt regulations should stop all commercial ac | WAUKEGAN tivity where asbestos was used WAUKEGAN Continued on Page 4A Col. 6 , ' ee vas IT , . * 43 ny 4 . . : Midleton shah ; Spe Abath. centakiegl Lb = ww Coy oe note w es ot a gual Mat keaie atye & toe Chemical Ue 4 LOR ey ee James Middleton Well business manager for the International Chemical dl aie tek Workers Union Lucat 60 and Henjamin Fout union president discuss condl- | tions at The Manville complex in Waukegun with Charles Wikel one of 4 ue Plant problems the edaspany's plant managers Stoff photo FMS 03025 weer | Asbestos dust called at hearing killer hearing hearing hearing 2 hearing wm Re eg Continued from Page 1 Ayer sald that proiection unless the person charge complies with regulations We want to stop dust from getting into the atmosphere not just those who violate the regulations he said Reddy sald the agency was recommending that mechani cal exhaust of dust into the atmosphere be prohibited Any factory plant or enter- prise should have to enclose Its asbestos incililies so all exhaust air is filtered he said Reddy said bo felt the sprayIng of asbestos fibers should be regulated so that the fibers must come exposure at the source of Ayers said the concern is not with the dust which you ste but the dust which you c^n- nol see because it is loo small but can make it into your Jungs Fred Engelking a Catapillar Tractor Co. research expert sald that the company had made its own test of brake lin ings and felt the evidence in- conclusive to pass regulations covering them Caterpillar questions whether the intent of the While M took no active part ni the Waukegan henrings ole ficials later backed the post tion of Dr. Fred 1. Pundsack a company vice president who represented the Asljesto in- formunion Association of North America in Chicago Pundsack said while the danger in the general public had not been delined We believe ti is prudent and feasible to establish rea- sonable emission controls that will protect the public and ensure that hazardous levels of asbestos will not develop in the community air in the fu- are confined to the area being treated But he did not feel that all requlations is actually accom plished by the proposed han of asbestos brake huings he +1 ture R spraying of asbestos fibers sand referring to the 1975 cut- should be prevented off date for use of Basbestos in IPCB is proposing that all asbestos spraying be halted brake linings He said if testing Indicates a Bui Scujai Fvui president of Local 60 urged the danger exists the regulations should be qualified to allow board not to hall use of aabes- asbestos use in a totally en los spraying closed brake compartment Handled properly asbestos is a good fire protection material he said pointing to the disastrous McCormick Place system This would prevent asbestos particles from getting Into the air If testing indicates that as fire of several years ago bestos brakes are harmlul & then a reasonable threshhold McCormick Place had not Immit of the danger should be been protected from fire by flame resistant materials and all steel girders inelted under established he added Place the burden on the The ete mn Bw if wad the intense heat manufactures to design his c Howard Ayer National In- product to meet reasonable Re stitute for Occupational Safety ottamable standards he said N\ and Health of the U.S. Public Don't just prohibit the use of Service said that plant test asbestos in brakes ing for dust concentrations _ But Colin F Harwood an II- can do set up for about 1,100 linois Institute of Technology He sold filters which em- Institute research chemist ployes could wear cost about sald brake linings have asbes cents a piece He said it takes one day to train a man who knows how to use a microscope in testing Lechniques tos dust in them and that many people have asbestos deposits in their lungs although They don't work with the prod uct A man of average intellig ence can learn the process in one week where he first must learn to handle a microscope Our primary concern is with the workers he said Harwood who testified at carlier hearings told The News asbestos spraying should be stopped Building siles are easenila ly messy places and are hard Dust dangers Samuel T Lawi^nJr. 1PCB board member reads + over submitted testimony dealing with the dangers of asbestos dust Staff photo Asbestos is related to lung cancer and we aim to see these people protected because to clean up he said Spraying Increases the number of airborne particles of the danger trom long expo- sure FMSI 03026 we -op--~- t eens me ee