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IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO
ROGER DALE BLAKE, et aL, Plaintiffs,
v. A-BEST PRODUCTS CO., et aL,
Defendants.
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CASE NO. CV 96 01 0191
JUDGE GEORGE ELLIOTT
DEFENDANT FOSECO INC.'S AMENDED RESPONSES TO PLAINTIFFS' MASTER SET OF INTERROGATORIES
The Defendant Foseco, Inc., hereby provides the following amended responses
to Plaintiffs' Master Set of Interrogatories, pursuant to the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure,
and subject to the General Objections listed in its Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Set of
Interrogatories, which were served upon the Plaintiffs on or about April 25, 1997.
INTERROGATORIES
9. Did Defendant or any of Defendant's distributors, as listed in response to Interrogatory Nos. 8.1, 8.2, and/or 8.3 have sales representatives who specifically called on ARMCO/A.K. Steel Middletown Plant and/or ARMCO/A.K. Steel Hamilton Plant, from 1945 to 1975? If your response is yes, as to each facility, please state the following:
(a) The name and last known address of each such representative and whether they are still employed by Defendant.
AMENDED ANSWER:
Dick Oster P. 0. Box 67 Berea, Ohio 44017
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Harold Wright 13415 Harper Road Strongsville, Ohio 44136
Dennis Smith. Last known address: 607 Dakota Avenue Niles, Ohio 44446
41. As to each product listed in response to Interrogatory No. 5, please state whether Defendant, at any time, published and/or distributed any printed materials, including but not limited to brochures, pamphlets, catalogs, packagings or other written materials of any kind or character that contain any warnings, cautions, caveats or directions concerning the possible health effects of the products on a person. If so, please state as to each product:
(a) The name of each relevant product;
(b) The wording of each such warning;
(c) A description of each such printed material;
(d) The method used to distribute the warning to persons who are likely to use the products;
(e) The date each such warning was issued;
(f) Whether any warning accompanied any of your asbestos-containing products' sales literature, handout or pamphlets;
(g) Please attach a copy of the warning and date said warning was issued;
(h) The name, address, and job classification of each person who presently has possession of the above-described documents;
(i) The name or names and addresses of the company who provided, produced or manufactured the boxes or containers on which the warning appeared and dates these boxes with the warnings appeared.
AMENDED ANSWER:
The following response is provided reserving all "General Objections" outlined listed in Defendant Foseco, Inc.'s Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Set of Interrogatories. The Defendant Foseco, Inc., did not believe that its Profax product posed any health hazard to end users. Notwithstanding this belief, Foseco, Inc., pursuant to the OSHA regulations, supplied purchasers of Profax with Material Safety Data Sheets which contained information concerning the Threshold Limit Values for asbestos dust. The Material Safety Data Sheets further advised the purchasers of Profax that the product did. in fact, contain asbestos. Upon information and belief, the first Material Safety Data Sheet would have been supplied to purchasers of Profax in late 1971.
Further responding, in 1972, Foseco, Inc., pursuant to the OSHA regulations, began to place a caution label on the packaging for its Profax product.
(a) Profax
(b) The Caution label read as follows:
CAUTION . CONTAINS ASBESTOS FIBERS
AVOID CREATING DUST BREATHING ASBESTOS DUST MAY CAUSE BODILY HARM
(c) The label was 2Vi inches by 4xh inches, orange semi-gloss in color with black print.
(d) The caution label was affixed to the packaging of the product. (e) The caution label was first placed on the Profax packaging on or about
September, 1972.
(f) Foseco, Inc. has been unable to locate any materials which indicate that a warning accompanied any of the listed documents. Further responding, ARMCO Middletown was aware that the Profax product contained asbestos and was aware of Foseco, Inc.'s efforts to develop and produce an asbestosfree product.
(g) A copy of the warning is attached as Foseco Inc.'s Exhibit 1.
(h) Anthony Money, Vice-President, Foseco, Inc., 20200 Sheldon Road, Cleveland, Ohio.
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(i) Unknown at this time. Foseco, Inc. is attempting to determine who printed the adhesive labels that were placed on the packaging of its asbestoscontaining Profax product.
Kathleen A. Pettingill (13443) Baker & Hostetler LLP 3200 National City Center 1900 East Ninth Street Cleveland, Ohio 44114 (216) 621-0200 Attorneys for Defendant Foseco, Inc.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing Defendant Foseco, Inc.'s Amended Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Set of Interrogatories was served upon Bruce Carter, Esq., Baron & Budd, The Centrum, Suite 1100, 3102 Oak Lawn Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75219, by regular mail, July 8, 1997, and that another set was served upon Ellouise Niblo, Esq., Baron & Budd, The Centrum, Suite 1100, 3102 Oak Law Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75219, by regular mail, on August 20, 1997.
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