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FILE NAME Brakes BRK DATE 1975 Aug 14
DOC BRK144
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newspaper Article - HEW Warns of Asbestos Hazard in Work Linings Spackling Mixtures
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11 THE STREET JOURNAL JOURNAL Thursday August 1975
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HEW Warns of Asbestos Hazard in Work
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A WALL STREET JOURNAL News renewed
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warnings
accumulated by
Sinai group that
| the Mount that far intense expo- Government agencies renewed warnings indicates
less than the
of cause uabsoeudt meixpnoseureral that scientists cancommonly sure the work envrierloantmeedntdiissceaapsabele hoef
mineral
Environmental producing asbestos serious and and disabling lung disease inclua dinOe!g said * Environmental
related
Environmental fatal lung cancer - a Institute Institute Occupational
Lb The
Sciences Laboratory
Occupational Occupational The National Institutefor
Mount Sinai which under the direction of
arm Health Safety and
research
of the Irving J. Selikoff has been the leader in
of " Department of Health Education Wel- research on the dangers asbestos re-
in that fare said in a letterletter to health experts that
research
Sciencethat it analyzed 15
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garage
personnel who change grind
ported
in
Science
patchijoinntigng
of and being exposed to poten- spacklspaicknligng brake linings are linings
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compounds purchased in New York City and
levels asbestos . +tially hazardousboy f airborne
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found
found
that
contained
these appreciable
asbestos Use William Lloyd - The written J.
of of these materials
example mixing of of amounts directNIOoSHr'sNIOSH's office occupational home repair work
health surveillance sanding and '
be
hadn't
cleanup may expose the user
members ua systematic study of these workers
other
of household to
asbestos dust high
of
significant concentrations asbestos enough to cause damage and that four cansuch work had
concentrations
Urged conetraions ys
Warnings cer deaths associated
that said AP | Warnings Urged said
even
more
been
The scientists said sfound
reported Another arm
Hooff EHEWW meanwhile HEW
said
it
that even more imcompounds
alarming
found alarmingalarmingalarming study showed var
portant none of
the spackling
indications that
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ious Le
spackling compounds used for home recontained concentrations asbestos suf
rietcocntoaninteadinwaerdnihanzgarldaobuehslazasrdousormatmerials ateriindcationsaTlhesy
contained such labels be with in- urged
required
re-
fects asbestos various instructions MountpaSrintaiscientiwesrteswarnings linings in
apsponsible
occupations
apsponsible
in
for theNIOSH warnings NIOSH letter
peared recently in Science a publication of about brake
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Mount Sinai investigators | noted that the workers engaged that -
in the
determined
and
David P. repair automobile dust brake linings are to ane Environmental . , Exposure at Homele Homele
maintenance and
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exposed poten-
Commenting on
the
the National
truck
levels airborne asbestos
director of the National Institute of tially hazardous
levels
asbestos
;; Health the Sciences *said
^ scientists
the amounts interview scientistsscientis These findings ;; suggest the possibility of thtahtathatO t pnareticularly largesaidamoiunntas nof danger- .
significant exposure during home construc- ine, and Mount dust were repair tion
during
exposurbey
Mount as are ous asbestos
created in mainte- |. large
nance work byby the Mount Sinai
shops where the
Additional .
members the en- ings of trucks and buses were
of or *. scientists suggests tohtahtermemobcecurpasntsoccupants ... may the brake drum
were resurfaced
of
after
the asbestos tire household or
Mr. Rall He said that changing
also inhale asbesft iboerss 7 +
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brake linings for automobiles was also dan-
added -
are
alrming
when
con
| con
because mechanics usually use an
7, 4a
alarming These results
results are
when con
gerous hose
air hose
to
to
blow
out
the loose dust
after
re-
? at ersend
the ByeMA aR e A, N ok{ movNiInOgSH esotlidmlaitneidntg h~amtbmeansy aTsAR900i ,0e 00
I wowrkeorsrkers are.exposed to asbestos in the man-
wl ufacturing and servicing of brake linings
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clutches most of whom are auto me-
and chanics The agency recommended as an
interim procedure that repair shops
for nate a segregated area
all brake and
posted clutch repairs and that signs be
in
those areas pointing out the dangers of as-
bestos dust It also said that repairmen
should wear respirators when
work and that strong vacuum used to remove asbestos dust
doing such
cleaners be
from brake
drums before working them
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