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<0. Death of 2 Polyvinyl Chloride Workers From Rare Type of Cancer Is Verified By Barry Kramer ,chlorite fabricating plata in the asms part lie// Eoportwr of IKK WALL STMT JOUWUL A second death from tn|iooKena at the liver, a rare form of cancer previoutty linked to vinyl chloride occupational expo- sure, has been discovered in the polyvinyl chloride plastic fabricating Industry, the Connecticut Health Department i -to Hartford. <at the state. A health department spokes ,man declined to Identify the factory In ,volved, and a Labor Department spokesman (lp Washington Identified It only as a Strat ,ford plant that makesJtayvlnyl-coatod fab ,rics. A further invest!ration is being under ,taken to learn if tbe accountant ever worked a, n the production line. -_.;The two deaths Increase concern that the Although a definite relationship between occupation danger of cancer, from vinyl <occupational exposure and angiosarcoma to chloride, a gas used to mate polyvinyl the two polyvinyl chkride workers cannot __ chloride plastic, may be more widespread 1be mode, toe Labor Department spokesman ^toan bed been thought Since January, U :said contact with *D other chemicals, drugs ' Oases at liver angloeareoma have been de- and dtoeaasa that can effect toe UVer hod . totted among vinyl chloride workers from been ruled out to the two cases, leaving only -agents that manufactured the gaa or that po polyvinyl chlorite as a known possibility. - lymerised the gaa Into the plastic. Six other Connecticut's esneer registry, which' tm* . esses have been reported abroad. < covered tbe two'cases and which is me of. But the Connecticut cases are the first the oldest and most accurate to the nation,.- toom in the polyvinyl chloride fabricating lists six confirmed cases of angiosarcoma of ; todustry, which turns the plastic Into a myr- toe liver since the registry was begun in ` - lad of finished products ranging from, fund- 1935. The other four, eases didn't have tare to coated fabric to electric cable cover known' exposure to either vinyl chloride or ing. German scientists recently reported polyvinyl chlorite, according to Dr.uBar^ finding 1`precursors" of angiosarcoma to the bars Christine, chief of the health depart livers of six workers to a plaid that turned ment's chronic section. She said ton polyvinyl chloride plastic into Coer tiles. > link between polyvinyl chloride and the two But the Connecticut confirmed as angiosarcoma deaths "might just be angiosarcoma by the National Casmer Insti chance."! y-: . tute in Rethewda. Md., are the first actual The Unk betweoi vinyl chloride gas and cases. In the U.8. an estimated ,800 per-,. liver angiosarcoma la strong, and scientists sons work to the vinyl, chlorite todustry, believe that U a link Is determined between while the number working to the polyvinyl exposure, to polyvinyl chlorite plastic and. chloride todustry numbers to the hundreds the rare cancer it will be because the plastic of thousands. contains pockets . ed unpolymerised vinyl Tbe Connecticut Health Department an-.- chlorite monomer that are libersted to nounced the first* case last week, and Gen hHng the plastic when tt is fabricated Into eral Electric Co. disclosed that It was a flO- different products..... year-old employe who fer 80 years had oper- ( Later Department bearings designed to ated machines at a Bridgeport cable menu- * set permanent standards far .vinyl chloride faeturing plant that processed various plas atmospheric concentrations in factories are tics, including polyvinyl .chloride. Tbe man scheduled to begin June 35 to Washington. A died last July, GE said. ' temporary ceding of 50 parts vinyl chloride Tbe second ease fiOBtvwd a. man. who per. million parts of sir is currently to effect worked as an aceoutaata' to' 'a polyvinyl ' Sod-Bte-Labor Department has proposed a - * v - - . " hjerii at levels too small to be detected, a re- qttrefnsat toe todustry has. said would be Imijjedail^to'meet. rv.'iV&'rT-v-------- ----------------------------------- RSV 0006827