Document gadJEjQm1EMzrkyEgjeB5zLae
FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA
DATE 1974 Sept 20
DOC NMA088
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Unions Planning New Challenge To U.S. Asbestos Regulations
NPeBw York Times 1857 Cloverd file Sep 20 1974 ProQuest Histoneal NewspapeTrhse New York Times 1851 - 2002
Unions Planning New Challenge
: To U.S. Asbestos Regulations
36"
ABRODY ABRODY study indicated |
.
yesterday that they were plahat at approximately twice
* ning a new challenge to Federmat level only a few per cent
asbestos regulations on the workers exposed for 10
lung rules ground that the
failed years or longer develop asbes-
protect the health of asbestos caused
. workers and their families workers at this
disease The
factory have
reactingsince
The officials were reactingsince been examined by an-
2 a new study described yestother physician
*
in The New York Timnat Timnat from 40 to
day that many of
the workers
who found 70 per cent have ray
ofdence - wives children and
of fung abnormali
household contacts of asbestn^'
.. workers could eventally devein addition deaths among the
lop asbestos lung abnoriginal 290 men studied are be-
resing analyzed According to pre-
from
of
their
incidental
exposure
ElinaryElinary information
provided
i asbestos fibers carried home home Dr. Hilton Lewinsohn med-
x
the factory on the woreal
director at the British fac-
; ers clothing
tory out of a total of 29 deaths
distres ed x, The union officials were
alhus far seven were caused by
# distressed by new data fromg cancer and three by meso-
7 England that
that
helloma a cancer of the
suggested chest lining . basis of current Federal regin the
or abdomen Both
tionslevels asbestos and are found these was invalid
and thathatt dr
cancers
with
among se levels of asbestos to whitilar
workers were now expon
frequency Amer- cause
expon asbestos workers exposed
expon higher fiber cancer Foe7
and 10 considerably
disease causeyears
levels
the their anticipated challenge don't see how we can ne-
the unionists are expected Intiate a number for a fiber li
enw insist they did
once before
before
when we don't know what
. -that manufacturiing procesiefel
causes cancer Mr. Maz-
procesiefel be designed so that work nechi said in an interview yes-
. will not inhale any asbestos yt
y-g bers and that the employer
vide special clothing showere showere
American Federation av* change and laundering showere
ganizations Congress of Industrial ean;
cilities so
the
bring the
hopiseevesral that workers do ganizations ganizations
mineral fibers
ganizations and representabuliding
of hy to their families
and asbestos . workers
of La-
representa-
trade
bulidng trade A Different Dimension echoed Mr. Mazzocchl's sen-
, We will be fighting frontiments response
we- different dimension said Anin
Anin response to a labor union
court thony Mazzocchi legislative challenge and
ruling last
Maz oc hi legislative the Occupational rector of
Safety
Oil challenge Atomic Workers Union Health Administration is
" Workers
. be looking at a whole genereparing genereparing amendments to the
destroy children worker representative which said bem
of
bestos
tion bestos public famisrould destroy a worker to * another to destroy his famisrould
be the subject of
.
According to current regudearings regudearings next year
ey~ tions which were promulgated in response to similar labor de-
anes mands three years ago workers
are not supposed to breathe air
|.
wage containing more than five long
:. fibers of asbestos per cubic cen-
timeter That can add up to the
inhalation billions of asbestos
: fibers of all sizes each work
;
day Only when the asbestos levels at work exceed five fi. bers must the employer provide
|
facilities for changing clothes
we However a study by Dr. Wil-
_ liamNicholson of Mount Sinai
Medical Center here showed
that the homes of asbestos
workers are filled with the
white fibers ;
In 1972 the Department of
Labor's Occupational Safety
and Health Administration ruled
Sy
- that
the
asbestos
level
in
the
Ne work environment should be
lowered to two fibers per cubic
centimeter of air but the effec-
* tive date of this ruling was
.- delayed until the end of 1976
| + The fiber standard was
based primarily on one study
of men at aBritish asbestos
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