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FILE NAME: National Safety Council (NSC) DATE: 1957 Jan DOC#: NSC032 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: NSC- National Safety News - Diseases in Foundry Workers I P 6 0 PUNCH PRESS FEEDER A speecl-up tool for lifting, feeding and position ing blanks of metal and other materials in stamping machines, and die presses without in serting the hands or fingers within the danger zone , . , Used for separating sheets, transfer ring from piles or stacks. Many other uses on all non-porous materials. -- flat or curved surface. WRITE FOR BULLETIN NO. J3 'SafieU jE q u ip m e n t ftA a ^n d u & t^ie k. IRRUSTRIRL PRODUITS COIRPRRV ZaSP N. FOURTH STREET PHILADELPHIA 33, PA. Production line and office workers can now work in absolute comfort The new low priced ELECTRO MAT throws ofE n-gentle warmth that keeps workers healthy,-happy and comfortable. I 4 " x 2 l " portable foot warmer is safe and economical . . . consuming less power than a 75 Watt light bulb. 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C.O.D. fee Dealer Inquiries Invited. _Zonc_ binate. 10 Day Money Back Guarantee I n t e r s t a t e R u bber P ro d u cts C o r r ., D e p t , 1118 908 Avila St., Los Angeles 12, California 12020 Lake Ave., Lakewood, Ohio 116 Industrial Health --From pa.ge S3 in conditions of th is so rt an d pjg vention of silo-filler's disease fiy pends on adequate ventilation o the silo and on p rev en tin g peopf and anim als fro m stray in g irxt? the dangerous area during tlr first seven to 10 days afte r tff silo is filled. | Diseases in Foundry Workers S" "Pneumoconiosis and Other Cars: of Death in Iron and Steel Focncb5 Workers." A. I. G. McLaughlin arf H. E. Harding. The AmericanMedic' Association A r c h i v e s of I n d u s t r i i Health, 14:350-378- (Oct. 1956). T his paper is a continuations w o rk begun in 1950 w h en the au th o rs re p o rte d on th e pathold' of th e lungs of 64 fo u n d ry wof ers. In this paper they rep o rfy the pathology in the lungs of'5 additional foundry workers. B tw een the two groups there rep resen tativ es of 14 different o! cupational groups and probab all of the occupational grow w hich w ould b e found in iron an steel foundries. | T he resu lts in these groups cr' not, however, he taken as inL eating the prevalence of p u t n a ry pathology in w o rk ers in h and steel foundries since lungs exam ined are those of nr on whom autopsies have been tained, which probably m eans t they are the ones who k n o w n or th o u g h t to h av e pnig moconiosis at th e time The pneumoconiosis was not n essarily the cau se of ,d e a th | even a m ajor fac to r in th e def in th ese cases. In th ese 85 case was thought to he a factor inj, d eath in 34 an d definitely no: facto r in 33. In 18 cases there doubt as to th e p recise cause; death. The condition found steel foundry w o rk ers is gener) a mixed dust pneumoconi sim ilar to the pneum oconioskj; soft coal w orkers rath e r tha$ typical silicosis. They did pneum oconiosis in all b u t tw|j 41 cleaning room w o rk ers wh lungs they examined. And also found some slight pneug coniosis am ong w eld ers and J? Nationa/ Safafy News, January;. and pr - . 4 g peopl in g in tl ring thl ifte r the er Cause Formel; igfin an) in. Diedi; ridirsi rii 56), .nation) en tin patholoj iry wo; report.j ngs offRjji sers. ? there ai re _j ra i as inti of pulmp srs in ift since ra >se of mg e beenvpj means ,vho we rave p n || : of dea| as n o t ng d e a th j the del 85 casejj ctor in i; itely no| ; there .e cause,! :1 in tH| :s generis imoconi coni osisf lier tha / did but two] k-i'-s wK d ; it pneiu fs and ifers, although it was small 2nd " not a fsetor *n th e ir deaths. Some 0f the x-rays shadow s in these oases ere probably shadow s of nderosis w ithout fibrosis b u t they Invariably also find fibrosis pres- eI1Thev have found fibrosis pro duced" by every category of oc cupation in the iron and steel foundry although the incidence varies very widely. T he pouring of steei appears to be one of the occupations least productive of pneumoconiosis. One thing noticeable about the cases itu d ied here are th a t there were 1.6 cases of cancer of the bronchial tube, or alm ost 11 per cent cf all th e cases exam ined. This is notably higher th a n the inpr6:'denes in th e g eneral population of similar age. The B ritish RegSiiisirar G eneral has also reported IffiSn excess of cancer of th e lungs ]n meial m olders and die casters, furnace men, rollers, iron and h steal foundry l a b o r e r s a n d grinders. If ir is rep rese n ts a tru e in crease I incidence of cancer of the broncl us in iron and steel w orkers there are a nu m b er of factors which m ight con trib u te to it, in cluding m in eral oil, soot, silica, iron and oxide, and th e products of dec im position of core binding " materi als. It is know n th a t w orkm en who- fccontrart th e ,classical type of sili cosis sre not m ore subject to can- ncer of any p a rt of th e lung than is _jhe general population and, also, |||o th e r groups of w o rk ers who in hale ;ron oxide, p a r t i c u l a r l y ' ^elders, but who do not w ork in jfcundmes do not show excess g a m o u irs of cancer of any sort. pgThis seems to elim inate iro n qxu e ai d iron as sources of such creased lung cancer am o n g these workers, if fu rth e r investi| f Ration proves th a t it actually exists, wG, ^ )a-ther surprising re su lt in yi: *'::'ese series of cases w as the |r td in ; of milfi m ixed dust fibrojgf5 in the lungs of both p attern .Jtakeis and crane operators who come from iron and steel foundJtes. rfie exposure to d u st in - Se occupations seem s to be fcSip6 small, particularly among l l^rtera m akers who are exposed Jvmtary, \ irJNafii ,Qna/ S af et y N e w s , J a n u a r y , 1957 SAFETY DIRECTORS RAVE ABOUT THEM ...(Safe-Hi ladder Shoes We Mean!) 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Write for Data Sheet 597 A P ro d u c t o i Mie M arking D o v ic e In d u stry ^MARKING 1 1053 CHATEAU STREET, PITTSBURGH 33, PA, 117 m ostly to wood d u st b u t ap p ar ently they develop a minimal pneumoconiosis from the general dust of the foundry. The authors observed that the Jj general dust in the foundry at crane trac k height is about the : same as it is at the floor level in ! the fine dusts w hich are most ! significant in the p ro d u ctio n of | pneumoconiosis. j W orkers on f u r n a c e s also ! showed minimal lung abnormal; ities due to dust inhalation. ! : Atomic Power Will Conserve Natural Resources Americans should not be com placent about the need for devel oping electrical pow er installa tions using n u clear fuel, says C. Rogers M cCullough, deputy di rector of the A t o m i c Energy Commission. Speaking at the annual meeting of The A m erican Society of M e chanical Engineers in New York, j he said: ! 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