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FILE NAME Manville JMA
DATE 1953 DOC JMA060 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memos - Bath Ironworks
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DATE June 1 1953
John M. Conley Jr. Director of Personnel a
Mr. John R. Newell President
SUBJECT-
a Memorandum from Dr. Edward L. Kinder Jr.
concerning BIW employeds and reference
Harold L. Adams reference b memorandum
of Dr. Kinder
Medical Director
memorandum from
attached to memo
At your convenience I would the attached memorandum and
appreciate it if you the references above
would read referred to
as I think Dr. Kinder's observations are well
ever do not concur with any program
thought out How-
except a last resort after
involving safety hats
to head injuries
a poor experience in relation
is I think any head injuries have to be
to our safety program and its
considered in relation
the experience such that it experience I don't believe
terms of manhours or
should be considered poor in
effort through our
days lost I think we should exert every
Personnel and
safety meetings with supervision and the
Safety Departments
injury down to
lower
to
try
to bring
this
type
of
a
experience and I believe it can be
done
My reasons for not
as
Harold Adams
recommending
reasons
safety hats
are
much the same
other
shipyards
the
As men will
near as I can find out from
not wear them voluntarily or
purchase them at their cult to enforce the
own
expense
It has been very diffi-
have such
rule
rule to wear them and the companies which
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buy these hats
I don't think the
justifies our taking such action at this time
expense
It would appear to me that
policy
concerning the
use
any recommendation for of safety glasses would
an extended have to be
inclusive and for all departments
tools The Shipfitting Department is using power or hand
safety glasses This department
now required to use
has had the most difficult
appears to be the one which
striking the
experience regarding objects
eyes
or hand tools I
as
a
result
of the
use
of
hammers
chisels
don't believe an over rule would be the
answer to this problem
I think we
provement on this type of injury by can only hope for im-
partments
which are
the
biggest
concentrating offenders
on the de-
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Mr. John R. Newell
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June 1 1953
As to the asbestos material and dust I am certain because of
studies made that we are purchasing the which can be bought for these employees
most practical I know that
various
respirator
is efficient and if the mon would use them they would thhiasve rensopthiirnagtor
to fear as to the absorption of dust particles containing asbestos
which would injure them physically Apparently aboard ship there are
positions which it is impractical for an employee to use a respirator
at all times
We have attempted to do everything possible to improve the tion of our Pipecovering Shop This problem has been with World War II and hence the Drinker report see attached
construcus since
To date I don't know of any employee who has worked in the Pipecover-
ing
Department
who
has
been
affected
by
silicosis
and
I
Pipecover-
hesitate to
recommend the adoption of an Ray policy as I have expressed to
Harold Adams in the past for these employees as I think it would be
very upsetting and undoubtedly would lead to requests for premium
rates for employees who are exposed to dust by the handling tos material However if medical opinion states it is
of asbes-
I think we should do it
,
a necessity
If and when there should ever be any change of quarters for the Pije
covering Department think we should make a very comprehensive study
of a new location with the thought in mind of setting up ventilation
improvements to eliminate as much of these dust particles as possible
I think such a move would not only be helpful from a health
but also from a production standpoint
standpoint
We have also checked with Fore River which appears to be handling com-
parable material when building destroyers as BIV and they do not have
any compulsory Ray plant for their employees in the pipecovering de-
partment They do however Ray employees if they ask for it and the
company absorbs the expense We must consider that they have Ray fa-
cilities in their industrial health department
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opinion I With all due respect to Dr. Kinder's
think if we were to
compel the pipecoverers to have Rays we would have to do the same
for welders grinders in the Paint Shop etc.
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John M. Conley Jr.
Director of Personnel
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Sate. of the workers The fact that sericus accidents are uncom- health
Sy). mon such shipyard work is praise for management's planning
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I have noted that accidents have occurred in high percentage
to certain body regions These are head hand and foot Injuries to the hand and foot while multitudinous are largely
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not preventable Head injuries on the other hand are al-
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to ways of concern us The head injuries including sculp de os
and skull as well as the upper face for 1952 totaled 582
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or more than daily They were caused by objects falling vee
by the the head or more commonly man busping a sharp me-sy. -
tallic surface Such injuries when incurred routinely re-
quire one or two hours of lost time for adequate treatment 7
of the cut or bruise and observation including a neurologic
examination on the day of injury and subsequent day in most .
cases In 1952 two such injuries were of serious nature and ois
involved several weeks of lost time apiece One resulted in
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tory use of safety hats by all men working aboard ship or
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on the ways Such hats of modern design have a plastic dome
and the
short visor
head and two
they have an inner band that is fitted around
straps across the top one front to back one
side to side The plastic dome will absorb blows from sharp
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surfaces and the straps will dissipate the force from falling . objects - distributing it equally over the head
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A second matter concerns the use of safety glasses Fresent
poli y recuires the use of safety glasses by all men using
power tools such as wire cleaning brushes grinding stones
or chin guns The safety plasses cut down a large extent on all foreign bodies that often become imbedded on the sur-
face of the eye
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most compensation commissions is five million particles per cu-
- .bic foot of air In reading page 2 of the enclosed reporitt .
should be remembered that the asbestos at the most constituted
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Provision of adequate ventilation or the use of suitable
respirators for all workers workers in these areas
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Freemployment and pericdic yearly chest chest X Ray examina-
tions of all men working in the areas of high dust con-
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3 - Installation of suitable
partitions to thoroughly isolate .
the cutting and band saw operations
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The third recommendation was carried out in part by roofing over
the cuttin and
were removed to
band saw rooms Subsequently however the the roofs
provide access access of the sprinkler system to these
areas in case of fire
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attachewedre I All the counts taken as a basis of the
taken
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and
three shift
operations
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that there is no toxic concentration concentration at present This might mmiigghhtt be
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clarified by new counts being being made Mr. Burbank has the necessary
apparatus to carry this out out if indicated
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In my opinion alterations alterations to the Pipecovering Shop as planned for .
the near future should include include complete isolution of the band saw ,
cutting and mixing
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steps
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to
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reduce
reduce the
from general shop and other
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