Document oDNR5pak8Ox9d1b3XZ80kMeoR
FILE NAME Pennsylvania Asbestos PAA
DATE 0000
DOC PAA001
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Barry Castleman Notes from PA Archive Copy
Records
Barry Castleman notes from PA Archive copies records
Pars Mfg Ambler PA Gasket & Packing plant
e 6/20/66 recommend establishing placement and periodic chest ray program ' 7/6/66 letter to owner also attached Hygiene Info Guide entitled Asbesto; s
Booklet entitled Dust and article 432 as revised law
Benjamin Foster Co e 1966 letter from US Dept HEW describes Asbestos attached references
e 1967 dust counts
5below 5 MPPCF o Others 6.0 9.6 16.0 33.4
e Respirators discussed e Employees sent for chest ray
12/67 dust counts improved 1.4 4.6 MPPCF
occupational Sun Shipbuilding
e 11/28/61 plant info record lists
hazard not including asbestos
' 5/22/69 Visited the company to deliver the film Hidden Hazards
e 3/2869 State approves air recirculation system whose approval the company
requested on 3/13/69
who said it was too
e 3/10/69 Film All in a Day's work shown to management
technical to show employees Refers to pipe insulation work for which the company had contacted Clarke
Steven to do their asbestos dust counting
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e Some other documents on welding and other hazards including names of
management officials
Pecora Chemical e 7/20/70 refers to 1968 asbestos survey no details of 1968 survey found
recommends respirator for some plant workers and annual chest
e 7/23/64 Survey
Guide entitled Asbestos and
rays Enclosed Dust booklet and Hygiene Info
Act 432
e Dust counts 1.4 -4.1 MPPCF
still recommends respirators for some workers it should also be
e Report
occurred among workers exposed to
emphasizing that cases of lung disease have
low dust concentrations e 8/9/71 Field report shows government inspectors interested in asbestos but told
,
none used currently
Melrath Supply & Gasket Co
e Steel copper wood dust dust handling system for welding & soldering
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e Late 1970 series of inspections mentions 50 workers exposed to Be Asbestos out of 152 workers
e Report
e Refers to chest ray program
e Nothing else on asbestos
Yarway BlueBell PA
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e 5/25/70 wood dust solvents noise welding metal fumes and gases toluol etc
e Nothing on asbestos
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Certain e 1966 Investigation of workmen's compensation claim for fiberglass exposed worker names safey supervisor Edward Kilgallon and physician Dr J Buckley Mountaintop PA Report by Donald Bottomley M.D. ' Other inspections of roofing plant fiberglass silica static ceramics talc e 10/2/68 discussions of asbestos sampling at York led government inspector to
decide not to do testing e 1/11/60 Occ Health nursing report on Bestwall Gypsum Co Certain Paoli
PA , names management personnel
e No other info
e 4/27/73 field report on Ambler pipe plant
Results of 1972 chest rays include 10 abnormal results out of 53 rest to be
submitted 2/74
e Undated printed report source undisclosed say workers at Certain Ft Washington plant getting lung function tests
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Goodyear ' 1967 Told to substitute benzene with less toxic paint and varnish remover
e Nothing on asbestos some brief reference to other health hazards in rubber plant
Bendix York
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' 1966-1969 Fibrous glass dust from printed circuit boards
e Some dust counts recorded well within legal limits
e Nothing on asbestos
The Warren Co Erie PA
Fiberglass products nothing on asbestos
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