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i.rfu.trlll Hmiene Dtgc.t March, 1961 lor disability# since at the time of changing job* hu was not In fact disabled. He could have continued bis regular work. The danger of future, not present, disability caused the change. Clodowski insisted his present hoolth condition forced iltu change in order to prevent future aggravation# and he was therefore already disabled. The court held that loas of wages it not the determining factor. Clodowski could still du his old job. His only recovery, therefore, was under the Non-Disabling Silicosis Statute, Clodowski v. Industrial Commlselon. Wjs. consln Supreme Court, IQS N.W. id 833 (Nov, l. I960). Occ. Hatarde Hi Personal Work Compensable? Robert Maheaux was a handyman for Cove>Cra(t, Incorporated. The company manu ( factured wooden aporting equipment and toys. On October 9. 1997, Maheaux was making a checkerboard for his own uss. He used a table saw during his lunch hour. He had never used the saw before and was not too familiar with lla operation. A flying chip gave him a permanent eye injury* The company maintained that since Mahtuux was on his lunch hour and engaged In a- a personal project when he was hurt, his injury was not compensable, Maheaux argued that he had never been forbidden to use the saw for his personal use, that it was customary for employ ees to do this, and that his straw boss was talking to him at the time of the accident and said nothing about stopping. The court concluded that personal uae of the saw was so common a practice it was a custom. Unless the employer expressly prohibited its use, any injury like ra- Maheaux'e was work-connected. Claim allowed. Maheaux v. Cove-Craft, Incorporated, New Hampshire Supreme Court, l69A2d 579 (Oct. 9, I960). Wra -- Occ# Hasards o ! a uJ t |WS d iaa ri- . SL/>tyl. V rvvv. to (Van .. bUtw ` IV/V BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND NOTICES iiJ A Progress Report on the Photochemistry of Polluted Atmospheres. E. A. Schuck, C, J. Doyle and N. Endow. Report No. 31, Air Pollution Foundation, 2556 Mission St.f San Marino, California. 112 pp. (Dec. I960), No price given. During the photooxidation of olefins, 1 reactions appear important; the reaction of olefins with oxygen atoms, with oaone, and with active Intermediates. Active intermediates may be free radicals or twitterions. The rate of disappearance of olefin, over and above that accountable by reaction with oxygen atome and oaone# has been termed the "execee rate". The importance of active Intermediates in the mechanism of olefin photooxidation ie suggested by these observations; (l) Some products cannot be accounted for by simple rupture of the double bond* (2) The excess rate is proportional to the square root of the light intensity and to the square root of the initial nitrogen dioxide concentration. The major products of the photooxl- detion are produced by rupture of the double bond, leading to various carbonyl compounds. However, significant amounts of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde are formed from olefins in certain cases In which these compounds could not be formed by simple bond rupture. Secondary photooxidation of the initial products can also contribute to the products. A lkyl nitrites were Identified among the minor product# of olvfin photooxidation. These nitrites are probably con tributing to olefin oxidation since alkyl nitrite* promote destruction of olefins as well as does nitric oxide or nitrogen dioxide# Other minor products identified were alkyl nitrates and epox- idea. The amount of eye irrltatloir'ceuscd by photooxidation of auto exhaust probably may be reduced most efficiently by control of olefins rather than by control of oxides of nitrogen. Ap proximately 50% of the eye Irritation measured in auto exhaust mixtures results from the photo- oxidation of ethylene and propylene. The sensitivity and precision of the present method of measuring eye irritation and of the analytical methods available for measuring products must 6e Improved if the results from synthetic experiments are to be correlated with conditions in lh Uoa Angeles atmosphere. -- Cond. from authors1 summary .