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FILE NAME: Avondale (AVD) DATE: 1979 Apr 3 DOC#: AVD106 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo - Shipbuilders Council of America Conference on Environmental Hazards Conference with Attached Cover Sheet SAFETY DEPT. Shipbuilders **.*-.. Council of America f\) 00 Ne H^mpxhire Ave. N .W . a Wuhingtun. D.C. 200)7 (202) 3J8-7722 April 3, 1979 TO: Subject: INDUSTRIAL HEALTH & SAFETY COMMITTEE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMITTEE Conference on Environmental Asbestos Hazards Held at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD - March 29, 1979 Dr. Irving Selikoff and Dr. Kilburn of Mount Sinai School of Medicine both spoke on shipyard asbestos disease. Dr. Selikoff used the chest X-rays of the well known case in Quincy, MA where the father, mother and daughter had died of asbestosis. Dr. Kilburn spoke of his studies at a ship yard in Southeastern, CT where 43% of employees examined showed lung abnormalities. This contrasted with his study in the Baltimore, MD area where 86% of those examined showed lung abnormalities. It was noted from the statistics shown that draftsman who work in offices had the highest incidence rates and laggers among the lowest incidence rates. This would seem to be a contradiction. Dr. Kilburn used U.S. Maritime Commission Charts which indicated that Maritime Commission shipyards employed two million people during WWII. He estimated that five million people have been exposed to asbestos in the nation's ship yards and that 250,000 employees are presently being exposed at the present time considering high labor turnover rates. This conference was attended by several hundred people including the undersigned. PLAINTIFF'S g EXHIBIT J SBCA 5027 j " S ______ _________ / ' ^ 4 Frank R. Kesterman Vice President and Secretary CO N FEREN CE OF THE COMBINED CLINICAL STAFFS NATIONAL IN STITUTES OF HEALTH BETHESDA. MARYLAND 20014 Thursday, March 29,1979 3:30 p.m. Jack Masur Auditorium SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH CONTROL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASBESTOS HAZARDS Moderators David P. Rail, M.D., Pb.D. Director, National Ioetltute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health and Irving J. Sellkoff, M,D. Professor of Community Medicine and Professor of Medicine, Director, Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Forms of Asbestos of Public Health Concern ' Mesothelioma as an Index of Environmental Asbestos Neoplasmi; Arthur M. Langer, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Community Medicine and Associate Director of the Environmental Sciences Laboratory for Laboratory Studies, Mineralogy, Mount Sinai. Asbestos Disease in the United S-tates, 1917-1979 Irving J. Sellkoff, M.D. Pathological Features of Asbestos Cancers Jacob Churg, M.D. Professor of Pathology and Research Professor of Community Medicine, Environmental Pathology, Mount Sinai. Dissemination of Asbestos Fibers to Body Tisanes E. Cuyler Hammond, Sc.D. Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine, Epidemiology,Mount Sinai, Oscar Auerbach, M.D. Eaat Orange V.A. Hospital Irving J. Sellkoff, M.D. a Classifying mesothelioma on death certiflcatea Herbert Seidman, M.B.A. Senior Consultant, Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Analytical Epidemiology end Blostetiatlcsf Mount Sinai . Constance Percy Biometry Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH. Janet S. Kaffenburgh Senior Research Associate, Epidemiology, Mount Sinei. b. Zeolites Ruth Lille, M.D. Associate Professor of Community Medicine end Associate Director of the Environmental Sciences Laboratory for Clinical Studies, Clinical Toxicology, Mount Sinei. Arthur N. Rohl, Ph.D. Senior Instructor of Community Medicine, Mineralogy, Mount Sinai. Yasunosuke Sueukl, M.D. Research Professor of Community Medicine and Research Associata Professor of Pathology, Environmental Pathology, Mount 8inal U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE Public Health Service National Institutes of Health