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FILE NAME: Reichhold (REI) DATE: 1978 Oct 9 DOC#: REI033 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Unpublished Testing Report with Cover Letter
Uew Vor* City Office 123 William Street New York, New York 1D038 Telephone: (252} 285-8000
October 9, 1978
THE HARTFORD
Mr. Raymond Clark, Technical. Director Reiehhold Chemicals, Inc. Middlesex Avenoe - P.0. Box 38 Carteret, New Jersey 07008
Dear Mr. Clarks
Attached is a copy of Dr. Arthur N. RohlTs (Environmental Sciences Lab oratory, Mount Sinai Medical Center), report and photographs.
The following samples correspond to the report of September 28, 1978, as follows
Sample Number
Line in Operation
1-1 = HT-1
A
2-
2 NX-2
C
3-3 HT--3
3
Notes Sample 2-2 = HT-2, Line C. This line was not using asbestos during the survey, yet the filter showed 65% total number of mineral fiber,
* Please review this report and advise me of .your comments.
Very truly yours,
Narren Towns Technical Consultant Loss Control Department
WT:bt
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Distribution Hr' E. Boruszkowskit Holding Compound Manager cc: Mr C D TEmery, Plant Manager CCS Mr. C. Fiscina, Vice President cc: Mr* T. Madden, Vice President ce; Mr. John Weinmann, Sr, Vice President cc: Mr* H. Dolbear, Personnel Director cc: Mr. Jobs. Hopkins, Johnson and Higgins
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rTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ...
ONE GUSTAVE L LEVY
N EV YORK, N X
*Matmr Sinai School of Medicine The Mount Sinai Hospital
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'JBceMBt~Xab Supervisor
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.JLosa Control Oepartment
H a r t f o r d . C t . DB115
Dear* Mr- ftresss
Errrimnmentaf Sticncn Laboratory
Cummings JOEast 102 Street A'r.- York,Sere
BasicSciences Yor 92
t2J2t 550-6173
September 26, 1978
. This will report the results of our analyses of three air samples taken
.
for their asbestos content- Cleared segments of the
' "Vxipexa* iS.re f ii-st analysed by polarized light microscopy at SOOx magni-
5 um or more in length were identified on the basis
*.*92 differences in external and internal morphology, indices of refrac-
*-ton, relief, extinction angle and other optical properties. Two hundred
^'fSeMs^ciraTtOTmed for each sample. The results are as follows:
HT1
HT2
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scanned
Total If of mineral fibers (includes
asbestos
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Tothl if of non mineral fibers (includes
-cotton)
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-:r^ftandtt>r~of-fibers "-per ml of air
200
20(56%)
16(44%) 36 0.63
200
30(65%)
16(35%) 46 0.81
HT3 200
68(62%)
42(38%) 110 1.93
i a e fibers counted generally had aspect ratios considerably greater than 3 to 1. . The usual length to width ratio was 5 to 1 or greater. In addition
-*i ^ ^ b cxa^tln:re~wag particulate of indeterminate nature particularly on -- 'in'--S,~ -which ban "the heaviest loading.
la order to- mre definitively characterize the proportions of asbests
- -''-"'fibers;
liters were prepared for transmission electron microscopy
(TEH) using a direct transfer technique (carbon coating, clearing with
acetone), that does not change the original size distribution. TEM analysis
showed the .presence of cotton, chxysotile and amphibole asbestos fibers
fcraedUdotite .and/or amosite) and* diatoms. Fiber counts of representative
fields at 10,060
xmagnification showed that the proportions of mineral
sf -S.ztSL-^x greater was essentially the same as those found by
j.optical microscopy. The rainerai fibers includes a small amount of diatom
ypicul^s .and filaments, calcined to form the mineral cristobalite. The
ggBparftkw m fiber--form diatoms,however is not greater than 5%, of the
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MOLDING COMPOUNDS SAFETY DATA
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MANUFACTURER'S NAME
REICHHOLD CHEMICALS, INC.
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