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GEORGDA-PACSF3C PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT GP-213______ INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMUNICATION DATE: to: *See Below: LOCATION: from: M. F. Fink LOCATION: subject, RESPIRATORS - OSHA. BUREAU OF MINES April 271974 Tigard *T0: Mr. K. W. Brown - Acme Mr. J. D. Rauch - AkroifTT^ Mr. J. S. Jorgensen - Blue Rapids Mr. C. G. Terry - Brunswick Mr. E. H. Allen - Buchanan Mr. M. A. Palmowski - Chicago Mr. J. E. Becker - Delair Mr. R. W. Nielsen - Grand Rapids Mr. 0. B. Covington, Jr. - Fort Dodge Mr. C. R. Coats - Lovell Mr. H. W. Scharf - Milford Mr. E. M. Rigby - Pryor Mr. C. F. Hummel - Sigurd Mr. M. S. Jorgensen - Wilmington Mr. R. V. Favero - Marietta cc: Mr. G. E. Wilson - Portland Mr. E. B. Hollingsworth - Wilmington Mr. J. W. Hart - Wilmington Mr. H. W. Peele - Wilmington Mr. J. B. Moss - Wilmington Mr. Ti W. Richards - Tigard Mr. J. R. Hurd - Portland The attached bulletin is self explanatory and as stated another Bureaucratic mess. You will note that respirators and dust masks in stock can be used at least two years and may extend to 6 years before discarding. Chemical cartridge respirators can be used at least three years and 3M 8500 series; i.e., 8500, 8600, 8710 and 8800 have been approved by OSHA although nothing definite has been stated recently. As stated, the majority of the nonapproved respirators are self-contained, oxygen and cartridge types. We do believe that this will be cleared up before the deadline. If you find it necessary to purchase .an additional supply, check the approval to ascertain the unit has qualified for NI0SH certification. If there is any doubt`contact this office. MFF:jg Attachment * OSHA WARNS THAT DRY - WALL SPACKLING CONTAINS DANGEROUS ASDESTOS HAZARD . fierfot r 5: # The Labor Department learns that many spackling and taping compounds used by home ". * / builders to cover scams in dry-wall joints contain asbestos fibers beyond OSHA asbestos health standard limits. It alerts industry and labor to this new-found source of hazardous exposure to' r. asbestos fibers. . Employees sanding these speckling and taping Joints smooth before painting may expose" themselves to three to 13.7 asbestos fibers per cubic centimeters of air, the Department says, OSHA's asbestos health standard limits employee exposure to five fibn:;o per cuiie on an eight-hour time weighted average. OSHA was alerted to the new hazard by Dr. Marcus M. Key, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. N20SH is OSHA's research arm. .... .. ;* * Key said an examination of 17 members of Painters Local 1974, New York City, con- * ducted by Dr. Irving J. Selikoff, director of the Mr. Sinai School of Medicine of the City Uni- *. versity of New York, revealed that the lungs of nine of 17 workers examined showed positive '* X-ray evidence of fibrosis. Fibrosis is a condition marked by a relative increase of fibers in my. internal organ. . * >/ Although Selikoff cautioned that conclusions'cannotTVc7irav7n*irofd*such new data. they suggest that a scrious health hazard may exist among home builders because lung cancer, which often follows fibrosis, seldom develops in fewer than 20 years of exposure Assistant Secretary of Labor John H. Stcr.dcr cautions that many employers and cm- . ployccs, particularly in the home-building industry, maybe exposed to unacceptable levels *7` /. ' of chrysotilc asbestos. The OSHA field staff in more titan 100 offices nationwide, and all . states with CSHA-approvcd job safety and health plans, have been notified of the new source p . of asbestos exposure. Trade associations, other employers groups, unions, and ropre- >. sentatives of the construction industry are being asked to join the effort to alert all employers ; and employees to the potential hazard and of the need to comply with OSHA's asbestos standard . ..to assure employee protection. ' : .1 Asbestos is one of the five toxic substances (the others'are carbon monoxide, lead, silica, ' announcment v . .. '. /. : . . / : V -: V -p.* ***' .-.u: U. . hi <: . Iv * 'r-C'zZ "V . V ' . . . .. / ;' * * .** ' :. -/ . *' /C' 'C-v -V-; .:i[ :V:.y* .:-,-.`-.Al^.2.-6ia74.v * .****'. ` ^ . . j ****./ . i#