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320 Tu'cnfy-srcond Congress--National Safety Council Membership Committee Chairman--R. A. Ooflin, CootiaoUa! Steel Gorpu, Kokomo, Indiana. Rathcoy Car Builders Committee Ckainoon--P. J. Drand, Pullman Car & Manofactoring Cottv, Pullman, Chicago, I1L Members at f nrjjf L. S- Adams, Hubbard Steel Foundry. East Chicago, Ind. C M. Alien, The American Ruling Mil! C<x. Middletown, Ohio. J* A. Cohrin. National Raptor Cotjl. Johnstown. Pa. H. M. Croghan. Inland Steel Co. Indiana Harbor, Ind. C. A. Dari*. Illinois Stce! Co* HI. John P. Ealv. Mumis Steel Co, Joliet. HL K. A. Olis, Whcding Steel Carpi, Wheeling, W. Va. W. T. Fflmcr, The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co^ Yonngitmra, Ohio. A. C Gibson. Spang. Oulfant & Co* Inc, Pittsburgh. Pa. Charles W. Htnko, Phtsbirgh Steel Moncsscn, Pa. S. E. Hawke*. MacWhjte Company, Kenosha, IMj, H. G. HcnscL The Youngstown & Tshc Co. Chicago. IIL W. J. Ireland, Kohler Co* Kohler, Wts. W. A. Jams, The Chase Companies, Waterbary, Conn. F. A. Lacennan. Republic Sled Corfu. South CMrapn IIL T. H. McKciTncy. Ulinoif Steel Co. South Chkagoi III. D. V. MetfaUe. Interlace Iron Corp. Chicago, IIL W. E Mejrraw. H, H. Robertson Co, Pittsburgh. Pa. Echcrt L Schmitt. Louisville Car Wheel & Railway Supply Co* LooisrtDe. Kr. J. K- Stafford. Mississippi Valley Structural Steel Cow Decatur, IIL J. M. XVofta. The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Youngstown, Obia ' Health Hazards in the Foundry ^ By CABBY P. McCORD, MJ>. Medical Director, The Industrial Health Conservancy Laboratories, Ohio The speaker said in part: Over and over again h seems necessary to restate hi TMn> prases such well established foundry fundamentals as the fallowing: 1. Excessive heat is a hazard counnun to all foundries. 2. Excessive heat means high loss of valuable chlorides from the body and calls tor repbcenunL The use of saltnhed drinking water is now better established as desnable than ever before. More rather than less alt is advocated for the normal foundry worker exposed to high temperatures. A. Molten metal emits chemical rays at times harmful to the eyes. Goggles fitted with glass barring these rays prove their worth to the workmen in many plants. 4. Meta) fume fever fortunately b fleeting in its known effects, but no less is real. It b more often found where rittc enters the metal mix. 5. Sudden and extreme variations in temperature may be the lot of foundry woekers---notably so m winter. The body makes adjustments to these quick changes with admirable iaritrty. X leas, these burdens are conducive to respiratory diseases, including pneumonia. Pneumonia reaches highest frequency among foundry nui 6. Lead poisoning b far from tare in the foundry. Metals Section 321 7. Carbon monoxide nay be found in harmful quantities. & Antimony, nickel, cadmium, manganese, phosphorus, arsenic, and sulphur may on occasion find their way into the crucible and thus make possible the development of in health traceable to such oases. 9. In core making, many binders have led to skin diseases IQ. If griidiiy, polishing and buffing constitute a part of the foundry s activi ties, a long list of additional hazards may be cited, ranging from the actum of chrome polbhig materials to tenorids from the drag of the buffing wheeL 1L I-at, but foremost, is the hazard of dust. At the present moment concern onr health hazards in the foundry nay be divided in the ratio of 99 per cent for dusty lung a'whih and 1 per cent for all other* combined. While this disproportion may not be warranted, h appears desirable that I devote the major portion of my comments to selected items related to dusts and the diseases produced by dusts. Confronted with any new and outstanding hazard in industry, the tendency is to mniUf the requirements for control. This notably was true when benzol first mw into wide industrial application. Now the conditions under which benzol may with safety be y*d are so wefl delineated that where these conditkm* arc provided benzol poisoning is unknown. A similar course is predictable fur the silica hazard in As the major problems connected with dusty lung diseases and their causations be come harnessed by the specialist, opportunity is provided for the consideration of many secondary aspects of dost and dusty lung diseases. I propose now to comment on five of these slightly less significant matters--important tn my opinion to the employment wnupgr, the safety engineer, and the plant physician. 1. How shall the foundry operator protect himself against cases of dusty lung dis eases originating m other-plants? Many foundry operators are faced with suits or other form of ctairas that undwhtcdjr are related to previous employment in other foundries or other dusty trades. silicosis may require and usually does require many years for its development to the point of disability, it naturally follows, by way of example, that 16 years of previous foundry exposure is more Uamabk in the causation of sflkosb than two years of similar exposure in present employment Yet (lie present employer is likely to find himself saddled whh full responsibility. Lately 2 have had opportunity to examine well tnkdc film negatives of applicants for work, without admitted previous exposure in industry. These persons were found to live and drive an dusty country roads made of flmt Approximately 50 per cent of thfff young adults presented sufficient involvement In their films to be rated as "suspicious" in relation to pneumoconiosis. Given a few months exposure in a foundry anyone might hold himself eligible for claims against his employer alleging dusty hmg disease. The answer to the problem is definite. Every prospective employee for any dusty portion of a foundry should be x-rayed by a competent maker and interpreter of chest films. For the good of the prospective workman and for the good of the operator, any applicant exhibiting any x-ray evidences of any degree of involvement resulting from the action of dusts or the presence of other pulmonary pathology m wed estab lished degree, should be denied employment in any dusty exposure. Expensive as x-rays may be, they are likely to prove one of the most economic steps that may be taken in these days of wholesale litigation, synthetic testimony, unskilled physicians, and juries.