Document r69B5zEwLjJLQ0jJyKDDXwVYa
FILE NAME DuPont DUP
DATE 1993
DOC DUP091
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Legal - Supplemental Answers to Interrogatories by D.P. MacMurray
3/24/93
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
IN AND FOR NEW CASTLE COUNTY
DANIEL P. MACMURRAY Indivi- OO dually and as Executor of the : Estate of MABEL P. MACMURRAY 80
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Plaintiff
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E. I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS &
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COMPANY INC et al
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Defendants
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Asbestos
DANIEL P. MACMURRAY AS EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF MABEL P. MACMURRAY SUPPLEMENTAL
ANSWERS TO INTERROGATORIES DIRECTED TO MABEL P. MACMURRAY BY ALL DEFENDANTS
11. With respect to any products containing asbestos manufactured packaged furnished supplied or sold by each defen-
dant named in this action that you claimed to have worked with or
around state the following for each defendant
a The name of the product or products
ANSWER
In addition to plaintiff's previous answers plaintiff
Daniel MacMurray believes he was also exposed to asbestos as
follows
Mr. MacMurray helped develop a DuPont product which contained asbestos During the late 1950s or early 1960s while Mr. MacMurray was working at the DuPont Engineering Development
Laboratory he worked with a DuPont product known as polyimide where with the help of Mr. Ewing he combined raw asbestos with polyimide to make a brake block After he learned this product was resistant to heat he came up with the idea of using it as a
binder in asbestos friction products to prevent break fade It is Mr. MacMurray's understanding that this procedure was later
patented and that in the late 1960s DuPont opened a plant in
Glasgow to make products with polyimide resins During the time periods when Mr. MacMurray lived in Wilmington Delaware with his wife she would be exposed each evening to the asbestos he brought home on his clothing as well as each time she washed the clothes he wore while working with asbestos
It is Mr. MacMurray's understanding that at the DuPont Buffalo New York River Road Plant in the early 1960s there
was a process in which Tedlar film was used as a laminate for
wallboards containing asbestos supplied by Manville Mr. MacMurray was present during the use of Tedlar at the DuPont Buffalo New York plant during the early 1960s During this time Mr. MacMurray was involved with a plastic product called celuseal in the area where the Tedlar lamination work was being done While he was working at the DuPont Buffalo plant where he was exposed to asbestos he regularly returned home to Wilmington Delaware every weekend He routinely took his asbestos contaminated clothing home which would be washed by his
wife
Mr. MacMurray also was exposed to the asbestos used in the
wadding for shotgun shells used in Remington firearms at the
DuPont Bridgeport Connecticut plant where he worked for 2 years While he was working at the DuPont Bridgeport Connecticut plant where he was exposed to asbestos he regularly returned home to Wilmington Delaware every weekend He routinely took his
asbestos contaminated clothing home which would be washed by his
wife
He also was exposed to asbestos by the use of asbestos gloves in the Forge Shop where he made modifications to a rolling
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mill for forging shotgun and rifle barrels at the Remington Arms Ilion New York plant He now understands asbestos was used in the manufacture of nylon stocks for Remington firearms at the Remington Ilion New York plant but presently is unaware that he was exposed to asbestos during this process Mrs. MacMurray
lived with him in Ilion New York During the time periods when
Mr. MacMurray lived in Ilion New York with his wife she would be exposed each evening to the asbestos he brought home on his clothing as well as each time she washed the clothes he wore
while working with asbestos
At all of the locations Mr. MacMurray worked no special
precautions were taken or special clothing was worn by him when
working with asbestos In addition two different containing tile
samples of tile Mr. MacMurray installed in his home which he referred to in his deposition have been analyzed The attached
report reveals that they did indeed contain asbestos During his deposition Mr. MacMurray described his exposure
to asbestos insulation at various DuPont plants An example of
this is contained in the pictures from the DuPont Spruance plant in Richmond Virginia which Mr. MacMurray has just found See
attached pictures Finally plaintiff s counsel is now aware that DuPont used
raw asbestos in the manufacture of the following products and Mr.
MacMurray and his counsel are presently investigatng into whether
he and therefore his wife may have been exposed to asbestos as
a result of their operations
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Paint films
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laboratory
Radiator stop leak products Cement block primers a paint like material Undetermined products in the elastomers
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As a component of talc an ingredient in DuPont
paints and primers
JACOBS & CRUMPLAR P.A.
Cumpara Cumpara By Thomas C. CumparCuampara Thomas C. Crumplar 2 East 7th Street
P.O. Box 1271
Wilmington DE 19899 302 656-5445 Attorney for Plaintiffs
Date 5/24/93
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