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The Sherwin-Williams Company 10! Prospect Avenue N W Cleveland, Ohio 44Ilf. VIA FEDERAL EXPRESS November 1, 1982 MacKenzie Smith Lewis Michell & Hughes 600 Onondaga Savings Bank Building Syracuse, New York 13202-1399 Attn: Re: Kevin M. Reilly REDACTED v. New Primex Realty v. The Sherwin-Williams Company; Associates Dear Mr. Reilly: Please excuse the tardy response to your letter of Auaust 26, 1982. In response to your questions: We could not locate a personnel file fori , REDACTED She was a part-time employee. We doubt that it would have included any useful information since it would have been very small. 2. Enclosed is the job description you requested. 3.-5. Enclosed is a copy of our store Safety Manual as well as store specification sheets. If this does not provide you with answers to the subject questions, they simply were never specifically addressed by our stores division. 6. There was no benzene present in our paints at the time worked at our store. If there was any present, it was there as a contaminant. Material data safety sheets are enclosed regarding the alleged "leukemia causing" pro ducts at our store. Ethyl benzene is entirely different than benzene itself. 7.-8. Refer to Safety Manual. 9. We will not release this information. REDACTED N40513 10. Retail outlets were periodically inspected by our interstate workers' compensation insurer's loss prevention engineers. The inspections were done on a random basis. We have over 1500 stores. We could find no record of the last loss pre vention visit by our insurer. Any procedures for a check of the store ventilation system would be included in our Safety Manual. We have no record of any Sherwin-Williams employee contracting leukemia as a result of their work environment with the exception of REDACTED Kevin M. Reilley Page 2 November 1, 1982 alleged claim. The same is true with respect to general liability claims. We do not use benzene in our products. Our medical consultant on We are enclosing his report. claim was Mitchell Zavon, M.D. You may feel free to contact him. We are enclosing copies of information from our workers' compensation file which you may not have previously received. Should you have any questions regarding tne enclosures, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned at 216-566-3064. Again, sorry for the delay. Very truly yours, THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY Thomas M. Locker Administrator of Workers' Compensation TKL/ap Enclosures cc: J. Mulcahey BPS: John, what's the status of the comp claim? 0007-SWP-005501582 CONFIDENTIAL