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FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1943 DOC OC315 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Corning Brochure for Employees - Health Aspects of Fiberglass Materials areony eu ta FIBERGLAS fibers wifch can Isto bata and boards form in 1932. During the fibers have pliable anifndafbabrricaitedcated basic In his 1941 ~ handling . Still another reason for such questions It an that Fiberglas is glass physical glass properties unbendable venetriyreflayctnew physical form Its physical maka it unrelease unrelease unrelease by pre properties familier with glats only as a bard transforma- transparent transparent substance Nevertheless the complete transforma- Sam tion that Fiberglas has undergone is not always understood and old connotations sometimes cling to oss . the new material to questions To presenta Corporation For sound business reasons Corning Fiber- manufacturer of Fiberglas ghlaass always desired to find and present tfhriasnkenadntd complete answers such has encouraged and aided investigations by impar- experts This tial medical publication which the answers to the questions which hahave ve ariseanrisienn largely based on their investigations Bee > Investigation - Teaching Gardner Trudeau Tuberculosis and Teachingin - that Fiberglas Jungs oat , Director and ologist of Labor Hospitals St. and physical j hazards to the reveal references to hazairndtshe employees working batch house handled Alms Beginning serial raw materialsmaterials handled Beginning sermscopic sermscopic chent Alms had 15 alleged letterFreoarda Dr. 7 evidence Siebert pulmonary disease disease there any OME FU pe; enses rv. contracted contracted before before employ- employ- 10339) claimclaim these men had discovered employed caused employed Summing Summing house but their employment does Summing Summing Summing handling handling Fiberglas Fiberglas products products is the 197307 F In company neither neither refuse employment summarizes discharge any man kale employ- whom soy dust found found The following following sumarizes summarizes the the roentgenograms company roentgenograms Respirators wworokedrkfewordkoed r another another company roentgenograms roentgenograms Respirators to 1929 and roentgenograms roentgenograms Mandatory the presence made 1929 of fruoreespord because because his family family Chest werewerewere again wrote because ausysion ausysion ausysion illicosis illicosis He U. pal oy of FiberglarsespiratForyibterraglcatsrac deaysediner, 4 obs part follows follows tere? FTanEe veg je HOD TI, we OFA Tsaquimog compensabia lafas at compensabia occupationa occupationa Sutaopog na alicosia asbestosis unthracusis unthracusis and UaIgrLedz0g see matter matter there in provision : Sutzazue 9103 comand recognise mhalation mhalation disease any this ' injurious OaNteg * record olAe]y YO spwur Department keep Safety complet statistical statistical record tea sreao type have made madethorough thorough chack Aq padoydara department and date wa have never had aj auiyorm respiratory inbalation for alleged sayshis Dr. up inbalation upper respiratory tract Z ON 98") aret report : sipsta up Siebert says says his report report Of6t UY opm submitting kla judgment judgment based on his UT sEOMNIIIQNy Jd of all assembled_us asembled_us assembled_us azz peau Ce investigationfacatsssembled_us with Fiberglas FibergDlars .aSMowOBdNeeeas of 201. Health ayy Jo doqod 3 IndustriaIlnstitute ayy 3 medical oficer charge chcarhgaerge the sagnd medical letter concerning concerning the west- yg Fyy respirators handling workers workers engaged concerning handling handling Ku anny. by pasaactstp Uda engaged handling 44 Gace reads part as follows PCO Jo SIFT HAIL my knowledge been in- disease aydeivorpes has not my knowledge in-. etoou TL, Evelsung fastided It Mared Mared good hygienic hygienic yeIdes Y "pated lemporarily vide atesagise respicabars quantities workers viaqse avid {mo werkers or who are sensitive sensitive cer- om 10 vores need personal personal respiratory respiratory protection protection JO Spualpezsuy aq) Sumxpat 1 respiratory respiratory gram qe ad Of au} JO apeuZ Although Although no specific caseinjs ury injury ACGT LORE Uy sction with installation installation of wit} way BeNoY ozHq 9Yz Fibergias Fibergias insulation Jo asoqy aise had of pepads the Mary Depart- aq) Suowy rpanryear00iNsnaSavatypaDepart- of diaz ema the Navy Navy 2 Anjod 914 DOSE sia0s Jo Pejres Pam yo Pezpuny[eiaase Depart- Depart- sezperd Sezer ty Aaduso9sg ary aut MOAZ yEQeIR. | ata .69[20}217 LIV oUt 30 Saget LeaK a HRMS 40 Officers dustrial Managers USN This memorandum aa the physical characteristics glas basard Because of producing physical characteristics charcteristcs charcteristics human hang oan wool the . nil la practically Dinner Investigatioknus sopraciable No cases of to the attention of the the lung have been brought of the Nationa Insti- Dinner HoefalIntdhusitnriaaslsoBcyigartaionne with the handling of tate of wool or glass fibers glam from observations It is concluded that there is no sopraciable and available Sterature with the banding of fibress form hazard canciated the blanket or board health and slag wool in glass Aetna Casualty The Aetna Casualty and Surety underwrites Insurance Corning to Statement covering any ill effects upon the employees caused by the bealth of handling of Tiberglas Tiberglas products the " June 21 1941 written by A letter dated insurance company's Engineering manager of the the company's gen- and Inspection Department follows as aral agent in Toledo reads ^finpart rock wool I . ... wRoeloatlivheatvoe tdhiescuusseseodfthFiisbemragtltaesr very thor- ] or Medical ouagpphllieys twoitthheouinrstallation of gines wes to silicosis and I know of . statement their direct may ce We may de~ nitelystate that this is not possible of which ** the established fact that silicates bared wuhpooln is composed will not produce s^>lico. sisor a glass simFir laer ecosnidliitciaownhich when inhaled in suficient quan- tite will produce coin is one However of many varieties of ^ ^ 55 chemically the free silica terme press leading to the production various other substances sold solution of these and glass in fusion of free silica with cates silicates produced by the wool consists of glass in the metallic oxides Clais form of very fine strands EFFECTS ON THE SKIN From time to time newly employeempldoyed workers unhave accustomed to handling Fiberglas materials The mechanical irritation of the ak~-n experienced a has seldom exceeded a few period of discomfort and No case of eye irritation or conjunctivitis covered during this cant skin irritation was shown was dis- Evidence of signif by only one worker plant four days man who had begun work in the a biopsy before Two from the arm of microscopic Serial specimens of skin were removed this employed worker microscopic sections of this tissue examined a Serial Siebert showed mild degree of capillary by dilatation the corium of the skin In addition few scattered tymphocytes around sev- capillaries indicates that such irri- mufacturing experience and the period of discomfort ial workers wear clothing warmwarm faction Several of bertal the pigment amount of a showed no inflammatory hyperkeratosis sections in reaction . revealed a the corium around it small which #t 8 se bangsa berbenberben berben beng beng beng #t Hasant bangsa nf at oe i det ie bee eaae he - Sulzberger Investigation During the spring and summer of 1942. Dr. Marion B. Assistant Clinical Dermatology and Sypniowogy report uate Medical School and Dr. and Syphilogist Now Assistant Dermatologist York Post Graduate Hospital carried out an experi- mental investigation of the effects of Fiberglas on the skin laboratory animals and human volunteers _.s investigation was published in 7 of their 3 animals 7 Special methods Exation methods of LP the skin were These spiculeisn the histologic be together 20 oe < spicules seen This Dr Sulzberger and Dr. Baur say with the fact that no disturbance in the contmarty mag- reaction of the horny layer of the epidermis was seen that the spicules which were en clinically clinical y rests only very superficially em- after the rubbings were reaction was seen in any No. foreign Lant ; the sections axamined thus monstrating materials used in these Fiber goods manu'selringT Carbonate of magnesis manufacturing . aling Material dealers employees . Clay product manufacturimanunfactguring . Paper manufacturing manufacturing Wood pulp milla - Health Record Excellent The health of Fiberglas workers is regarded as better than average by the Aetna Life Insurance Company general which under writes group insurance life disability sickness and hospitalization for employees of Corning Fiberglas Corporation In a letter to Corning executive dated June 11 1941 agent wrote in part aa The essential charactSurgeonsea rapoingss tas idecfsed by the AmeCr ollei ge oc f Sua rgen ons are as follows Ability to absorb the greatest quantity in the shortest stabilization Ease of Fre froe m lod aseo threm ads Uniformity Seftt o prn evee nt s tras uma Freedom from foreign substances , oaWith the inovativi of rayabla surgical these unaltered A yaed A used apparatus front wounds this as small strip of apparatus filter used woven woven of fibers tubing tubing of ngat transfusions Through this strip strip plasma plasma passes passes on way bottle bottle to wounded man's veins actngg eg treet ee |. 4 the tape be tape sterilized sterilized sterilized used repeated fiultseer repeated bbeeccaauussee No .. toe tape tape be ge ene : , r _ . 4 pF er 4 hydrocarbons hydrocarbons no can the i : ane Plant thank Not tabchq * pore Re ie tr ** . . tine * * mabere dancers of wetted rir! m4 my. 2 wrath Ye oppress a AP mmreery vee DF be Be fewnere FO ls nich nich nich Pe net en , mer CHARACTERISTICS at SURGERY FIBERGLASSIN SURGERY : | mm an ^' al wiCHARACTERISTICS i Ta Hi h ee itl se nge iy aly j oe | ... 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