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FILE NAME: US Steel (USS) DATE: 1962 Sept 17 DOC#: USS011 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter Septem ber l7, 1962 M erle Bundy, M. D. M edical D irector;, - \ t Room 1629 ...j' , United States S teel C orporation 525 W illiam Penn P la ce Pittsburgh 30, Penna. RE: W illiam Scott ' (our N o. 1. M . 4 56) D ear M e r l e : u. of hearings which we re; forw arded t o m e by G. T . Skinner, E sq. "r : * * . _ . v ' ,v*?' " `y of the Law D epartm ent, United States Steel C orporation. The tran scrip ts pertain to testim on y of w itn esses in the in ter e st of th e C laim ant, T helm a Scott, widow of the D eceased . W ith r e s p e c t $0 th e te stim o n y , I am im p re sse d /v /ith the weight of evidence presented by the various w itn esses, notably, M rs. T helm a Scott; E m erson V enable, C hem ist and Industrial H ygienist; C harles C. Bookert, M. D ., P hysician to the D eceased; and W. C. Hueper, M. D ., N ational. C ancer In stitu te, .United States P u blic H ealth S erv ice. In e sse n c e the seem in g ly m o st pertinent bits o f testim on y are as follow s: ; - > " '* . 1. M rs. Thelm k Scott esta b lish es 4 S: th at h e r husband, th e D ecea sed * Ur A p erio d o f approxim ately 16 y e a r s (Thanksgiving Day 1942 to August " .:.Sr ' 16, 1958). She further te lls that the sm oke from the coke ovens, -.it'-. * V ?:..V FV s m o k e c a u s e d c h o k in g lik e in;the* A c h e s t ... It a p p e a r s th a t thife ,c a s f 'A A Vi *' -A - page 2 Septem ber l7 , 1962 "S- - a ", ... on January l i , the D eceased was adm itted to \\ estern Pennsylvania H ospital where he rem ained until February 23, 1959, having been discharged as a hop eless case {Cancer of the Lung by biopsy). The patient died at hom e on A pril 9, 1959. 2. Death C ertificate d isc lo se s that a biopsy of bronchus, m ade on Jan. l 6, 1959 d is c lo se d a p o o rly d ifferen tiated epiderm oid carcinom a. 3 . ;t D r . C h a r le s B o o k ert d is c lo s e s that he attended the patient after his discharge from th hospital to hom e. D r. Bookert further d isc lo se s that in his years of p ractice in C lairton he has seen m any V-V c a s e s o f m a lig n a n c y in m en who had ' S worked on the coke oven s. Subsequently he nam es a number o f his m ale patients who had so worked and who had died of Cancer of the Lung. 4. M r, - m erson Venable te stifie s that , at lea st W o jbb situ ation s of the -D eceased offered exposure to sm oke and fum es of coal tr and coal tar 830 days of the D eceased em ploym ent> at the,C lairton w o r k s.. ^ \*vv- 5$ D r. Huepr cites bpidecbiological, o f lung can cer w hich atten d s.cok e oven .operations. ' He answ er the hypothetical question by saying th ere is .reasonable -r' ' - ;_ vr ::* V$. .'.' '--,S''' f;vt > : - . `.'-iv. 'SrK' ''1-. ' : ,, ar . . . *i. W# . * V. - .>?; *: >4> ' : i'h 'V v Li.- : * v: ' .-K h-.-v-A- i; 1p r o b a b ility that th e D e c e a s e d d u rin g , afrori? the cok oven s,- and Ih is ex p osu re lated t his S . :'4 ^ ~ $ $ ' 'on!)th 1d #s;'o r h e Coke o v e n s . J - I s '-^4> %jVf /.' r i- t*Ar*(SAfili f-V--iflf------------------------..- . vnav Kfl .'T-f, -v5 ':{ ? 'Vr;v:' Eli ^ 'a.l>l5e w i t n e s s e s `.-Pf'J$: t- - \tfVvg ando awsp. sta i e a in i n e n y p o t a e c i c a i q u e s s i o n a d v a n ce d py cne C la im a n t's \ 1 . afe,.' fremerth o lesjl^ in ,v i e w 1 *i f , JfK offh e e v i dc*'m*'>ee/and of my : personal V - ,,r ; ` -' ^ ; 'SW ' .* . J.-' ii -, ' M erle Bundy, M. D. & page 3 Septem ber 17, 1962 studies concerning the etiology and g en esis of canCer of the lung, it se e m s to m e that i t 'would be e x tr em e ly d ifficu lt to deny - '. e a) that the D eceased experienced a significan t occupational exposure to the inhalation of substan ces having the ab ility to produce cancer, b) that the D ecea sed died of p rim ary b ron ch o genic (lung) can cer on the b a sis of bronchial biopsy. that the D ecea sed 's, h isto ry of cig a rette sm oking is un im p ressive as a possib le factor in the causation of h is lung ca n cer. d) that other w ork ers, sim ila r ly em ployed in the sam e plant did d ie of p rim ary lung can cer and that the attack rate Is higher than in cohorts living in the sam e com m unity or indeed working in the sam e plant but without com parable-exposure, e) that world w ide ep id em iological studies d is c lo s e a high in cid en ce of lung (b ronchogenic) cancer in w orkers significan tly exposed to the inhalation of srhokeand fume em issio n s from e oko Oven ope rat Ionp, , . . , .:A . !J"', (* * *d" ` V - evidence is , it is my personal to reach a settlem ent, .b F ra n k ly , and 4n a ll hoiaed^ ^ `doul^^that tbevcasVc&a bauson by the Defendant on * ` witnesses.? > k r '1 , x '\,v. v - : `'# O . .*y~ '\ y v H r ; v o,? r ; ^ `vii - ' -V v>r .-.Ai. ,V 4 ji' >AJV:eb& Arthur `J.;yrW>al, P h . D .v M.X5. ' ;orjtp4tt|t rlft ' - "*w