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FILE NAME Mundet Cork MCK DATE 1958 DOC MCK127 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION WC Claim of Streithorst Pt 2 re wots ermmcenialbchi Case File Inspections at the California Workmen's Comp Appeals Board San Francisco Office Despite my urgent expressions on the phone and in writing to Judge Gately the request was needlessly delayed sitting on someone's desk for a week before it was approved They have asked that the various field offices involved request that Archives Sacramento old case files all to SF Office However the only files send the that have come in were 2 handled by SF originally These are cases off the Armstrong list and they were both pipe coverers Streithorst was disabled with was in dispute whether he was asbestosis though since he so much worse off than most was men 70 it that age He died of stomach cancer Defendants included Armstrong and Phillip Carey Relevant parts of the claim file were copied by a copying service and are being sent to my place claim form notices of hearings correspondence involving defendants Carey and Armstrong Swartout monale was totally disabled with asbestosis and died from cor pulDefendants included Armstrong J and Mundet Cork An award was declared in March of 1958 which appears to have been as- sessed to Western Asbestos Co. in California The award was upheld after Reconsideration whereupon Western petitioned for reapportion- ment of costs among the other defendants Among other things this brought forth a letter of objection from the law firm representing the insurance carriers for M and Armstrong Cork These firms de- fense was that their employment of Mr. Swartout was either outside the State of California under contracts of hire not made in Califor- nia or involved the use of insulation materials other than asbestos They go on to recount that the man was employed in PA GA under a contract made in SC and Indiana =~ but not CA -= by M They note that Swartout was employed by Armstrong in CA on a refrigeration job involving cork insulation and worked for Armstrong on another job in Alaska under contract through the Asbestos workers union Several other defendants also objected to reapportionment of expenses and was dropped The objection from J and Armstrong's lawyers admit that asbestos insulation work killed Mr. Swartout the matter seems to ue Judge Gately was kind enough to let me make a few copies from the Swar tout file though the usual charge is 50 per copy The copying service charges about 20 per copy Gately is retiring to get work with an insurance firm in May and the best person to contact there is Evelyn Kanada She understands why we are doing is knowledgable about how the records are kept this research and My Bay Area contact on this is an investigative reporter named David Weir He was with me for 2 hours at the comp board office and we went through the case files together so he could see what Dave will receive notice when the other files arrive to take note of.. and he will go through them and arrange to have relevant parts copied and sent to me The case files are typically an inch thick sometimes more so this is a consuming assay I agreed to pay hr for this work 4/5 935 8521 aei aSe, *. 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TIME TIME LENGTH or LENGTH LENGTH THIS ON ans JOB LOST TIME __wos Teme YEARS EMPLOYED ee EMPLOYED a = ee Ae DATE CASE - - tf) = ape b= s 15 ' eh fs ee STY CLOSED 7 fa) al. oF a cl. i-DATE ACCIDENT OCCUPATION 4 . 7 - Be | ACCIDENT PAIOR ACCIDENTS r2al INJURY SUSTAINED -@ SAINJURY Asbestosis Asbestosis - ee EXTENT OF INJURY UNSAND of Boor Chest g UNSAND wz Chest 30oy 14 MECH 6} 34 MECHANICAL CONDITION = Ta-UNSAFE - _ AGENCY PART TYPE ACCIDENT ACCIDENT FACTOR er ee PERSONAL FACTOR UNSAFE 2 oa a UNSAFE act TUP-UNSAFE . mus > 2 De 600FA2-145 600FA2-145 ee 600FA2-145 600FA2-145 600FA2-145 e C 4 LST: z 4 < \3 ^' |i se TIDREBOARD PRODUCTS. AONADV-ZE ae telbatT nPd ET i COMPENSATION INCA: HOONI CLAIMS OF 09 OF il ap ATL CAE npn ' A alan 4 n MFEODIRAM373 A.A. A009-01 A009-01 a taia n ata n M9 ot i QT TTF mm. ern rerenTOTHERS PENSING 2,1 127 39.513 OTHERS CALIF2 ANDONIAalta Alaa INDIES S ANDONI y 4 A\Q / 3 _ _ananauye taeyr A qa a n . ' ot : : ok ae nr ned . dee *, Pos ; aa we 2 eft - . 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