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i 1 Robert D. Bjork, Jr. Allan D. Gutsche 2 Dorine R. Kohn BJORK, FLEER, LAWRENCE & HARRIS 3 483 Ninth Street Oakland, California 94607 4 Telephone; (415) 832-8134 5 Attorneys for Defendant The Rockbestos Company 6 *8WL .y, -<-Sc^_oaicr .Pm. ________T7SWD BRAYTON & ASSOCIATES APR 3 0 1991 RECEIVED CHS. .tar MS_________. n ^o I VirDtC /COCtt$ PtLU 7 8 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA - COUNTY OF 9 10 In Re: No. 828684 11 COMPLEX ASBESTOS LITIGATION 12 13 / 14 THE ROCKBESTOS COMPANY'S SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSES TO GENERAL ORDER NO. 29 INTERROGATORIES 15 The Rockbestos Company (hereafter "Rockbestos"), hereby 16 provides supplemental responses in writing under oath to plain 17 tiffs' standard interrogatories pursuant to General Order No. 29. ' 18 19 The supplemental responses are made without a waiver of 20 any objection on any ground previously stated in Rockbestos' Re 21 sponses to General Order No. 29 interrogatories, dated March 15, 22 1991, and the preliminary statement and general objections con 23 tained in the March 15, 1991 responses are specifically made a part 24 of and incorporated by reference into each of the supplemental 25 responses set forth below. Furthermore, Rockbestos reserves 26 /// 1 the right to assert further objections at trial, whether or not 2 asserted herein, to the interrogatories and responses. 3 4 RESPONSE TO INTERROGATORY NO. 10(b)-(c): 5 6 Some of the following wire and cable products contained 7 encapsulated and saturated asbestos during the indicated periods. 8 9 Wire/Cable Products Aporox. Dates of Manufacture 10 11 Apparatus wire 1936 to 1985 12 Motor lead wire 13 Appliance and fixture wire 14 Control cable 15 Power cable 16 Switchboard wire 17 High temperature wire 18 Furnace and mud gun cable 19 Shipboard cable 20 Instrumentation cable 21 1930 to 1985 1930 to 1985 1930 to 1985 1930 to 1985 1930 to 1985 1938 to 1985 1974 to 1980 1930 to 1979 1930 to 1977 22 RESPONSE TO INTERROGATORY NO. 10 fdl: 23 24 It is unduly burdensome for Rockbestos to provide the 25 chemical composition of each such product because Rockbestos 26 manufactured many different wire and cable products during the 2 ii i i i 1 fifty-five year period, and the chemical composition varied broadly 2 over time and with the type and size of the wire and cable* 3 4 The following are examples: 5 6 Year: 1981 7 8 Product 9 #14 Firezone 101 (High Temperature TAGT) 10 11 components % 12 Nickel clad conductor 13 Teflon tape 14 Teflon coated glass yam 15 Teflon finish compound 16 Glass yam 17 Silicone and resin finish compounds 18 Lap: Asbestos Other non-asbestoscomponents 19 47.4 9.3 13.0 1.6 4.9 9.7 12.1 2.0 20 / / / 21 / / / 22 / / / 23 / / / 24 / / / 25 / / / 26 / / / 3 i 1 Year: 1979 2 Product: 3 #14 AVA 4 Comoonents: 5 Copper conductor 6 Tape 7 Mylar 8 Saturant 9 Varnished cambric tape 10 Lap and yam: asbestos 11 other non-asbestos components 12 Year: 1981 13 Product: 14 #8 AVA 15 16 Comoonents 17 18 Copper Conductor 19 Nomex tape 20 Mylar _ 21 Varnished cambric tape 22 Saturant 23 Lap and yam: Asbestos . Other non-asbestos components 24 /// 25 /// 26 /// % 29.0 .5 .7 29.5 12.8 23.6 4.1 % - 55.5 * .4 .5 9.2 18.4 13.4 2.4 4 1 Rockbestos used only chrysotile asbestos in manufacturing 2 wire and cable products with insulation containing encapsulated and 3 saturated asbestos. 4 5 RESPONSE TO INTERROGATORY NO. 10(i); 6 7 Pre-1980 sales records and data for the defined 8 geographic area are no longer in existence with the exception of 9 some records reflecting sales of wire and cable products, some of 10 which contained encapsulated and saturated asbestos, to California 11 Nuclear Plants. 12 13 RESPONSE TO INTERROGATORY NO. 15; 14 15 Between 1979 and 1986 a warning was included on all 16 boxes, spools or reels of cable and wire products containing 17 insulation with encapsulated and saturated asbestos. 18 19 RESPONSE TO INTERROGATORY NO. 17: 20 21 The wire and cable products generally did not have any 22 external markings, although the boxes, spools or reels containing 23 the product generally were marked or tagged with the names Cerro or 24 Rockbestos, or the brand or trade names previously identified. In 25 general, wire and cable products were marked internally with marker 26 threads. 5 1 REspoysg_yo_ xstsssqgatory_kq_. 201 2 3 Numerous uncatalogued documents responsive to this 4 request are maintained at The Rockbestos Company, 285 Nicoll 5 Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06504, and arrangements may be made 6 to inspect these documents at that location. 7 8 Dated: April 29, 1991 9 10 BJORX, FLEER, LAWRENCE & HARRIS 11 12 Dorine R. Kohn 13 Attorneys for Defendant The Rockbestos Company 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 6 ( 1 vnUtSMUQM 2 S I, &*org G. Littleliales, an the Quality Assurance 4 Manager for The Rookbestos Company, a party in the above-entitled a action/ and as such an authorised to make the following ' 6 verification, x have read the foregoing Tke aocxsZfToo cok*xnys 7 SVTP&Et&XTZIi RSfiPORSBS TO QKNERAX* OR&SX HO. 2ft XWTERHOGATORins and a know the contents thereof- *o single official, employee or former a employee of The Rockbestus Company has personal knowledge of all 10 such matters. The information contained herein has been compiled ii at Biy direction by counsel for The Roefcbestos company. T am A' 13 informed and believe all the responses are true and verify the ta responses on that basin. 14 is l declare under penalty of perjury, under the lavs of the ie state of California, that the foregoing is true and correct. IT % ia Executed this C'^ day of April, 1091 at New Haven, is Connecticut. so 21 22 George G. Littlehaies 23 24 20 2G