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FILE NAME: Kelly Moore (KM) DATE: 1972 June 6 DOC#: KM012 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter from Drywall Industry Trust Fund to PECOTEXTURES with BC Notes .--.Dear Mr. Pickana: ? * - v;'.7' . .. a ***&' aeeting of .the General Executive Board `^r^';;V.'iSteetiag of .the Painters,, held November 8r 1971 in Miami, Florida,, ^ ^ r l r v i a g *J. .Seligoff, M.' D. , Professor, Mt. Sinai School of >- ---}!^Medicine of .the City of New .York, stated that they had just ;completed -a three-year study on the affects, of dust to a worker the- sheetrock. taping- industry. The study showed that persons :.;W7Ut-:;who" have'worked, as a taper for seven or more years are quite ';*??'"susceptible to. cancer of- the lung within the next ten year. .v. period. ~ vVCIa- view-of the recent Occupational Health and Safety Act,.;-1 Safdty-.Comnittee of'.the Drywall. Industry Trust .Fund would.,' ^- like- to 'solicit, any recommendations or advice that you m a y hav;: regarding: the -high, incidence of cancer, lung disoaso, and skin?. : 'If^i^&^ikritation found .in workers of the sheetrock taping industry.'-'