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FILE NAME Kaiser Cement KCEM DATE 1970 Mar 24 DOC KCEM005 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo with Article ars - tet TO TO COPIES KAISER ; CORPORATION GEMENT & GYPSUM GEMENT OFFICE MEMORANDUM R. A clipt J. K. Beatty Z CONFIDENTIAL -- clipt fos CONFIDENTICONAFIDELNTIAL clipt . --'F vi 7 ao vv a ane Fad 67a 4 DATE March 24 1970 FROM J.C.M. C. McCoe This This This This This r ae AaSBESTOS i ASBESTOS IN CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS The attached article authored by the Chief Specifications of Skidmore Owings and Merrill was Writer H. J. Rosen It is of brought to my attention by R. Beck especial interest since we use asbestos fibers in the of Cushenbury and Permanente Plastic Gun manufacture Plastic Cement Cement as well as Permanente Hand ~ The author relates that deaths from U. A. is cancer among asbestos workers in the seven times greater than that of the general white male tion Re also relates that allied tradesmen in the popula- are subject to exposure to asbestosis and construction industry cancer Hod carriers are continually exposed to the dust the mixer as they break sacks into of these Knowing how sue happy some people are and knowing that some tradesmen will hear of this if they have not already it would seem wise to bring this to your attention as well as that of sonnel our legal per- ~~ Perhaps this is sufficient reason asbestos Cushenbury Plastic Gun to locate and use a substitute for the Cement does not utilize asbestos fibers AtritoinclCelifrnocm Progressive Architecture February 1970 Page 102 Specifica- JCM FORM 150 TO LaGraffe LaGraffe 10-14-03 rd CSR EXHIBIT NO 10-14-03 10-14-03 10-14-03 H. THUMAN | LEV082203A SPECIFICATIONS CLINIC HAL HAPO ROSEN Controlling Construction Pollution This column concludes that due to its contribution to - air pollution asbestos insulation must be eliminated in future construction Rosen is Chief Specifications Writer of Skidmore Owings & Merrill New York The hazards of air and water pullution are slowly being recognized as more statistical information on their effect on the human environment is coming cerned to the attention citizenry Since of a con- the pub- lication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson people have begun to question the dangerous side effects that result from chemical pesticides au- tomobile fumes and raw sewage dumped into our streams and rivers Industrial and human wastes carelessly or innocently disposed of into the atmosphere or into rivers have an effect on nature's biological bal- ance that governs the production of oxygen and the growth of marine and animal life In addition as urchi tects we should decry the despoila- tion of our environment resulting from the accumulation of physical mounds of garbage junked cars and industrial waste products We should also take a closer look at ~ our construction practices to deter mine whether we are a party to this pollution as a product of our designs and whether we can reduce or eliminate some of our own contribu- tions to this problem area Certainly in demolition of existing structures in urban centers wc should restrict the amount of dust that develops In some European cities barriers consisting of plastic envelopes are utilized around demol- ition sites to confine the dust result- ing from these operations Perhaps our Building Departments and our Air Pollution Control Departments should institute stricter controls over such procedures A more striking example of how architects can reduce pollution that actually contributes to fatalities is in the selection of certain sprayed fire proofing and insulating products In 1900 a London physician in Sarfarming " Autonay the body of an asbestos worker found asbestos particles in the lungs and attributed this death to the worker's occupation Several 140lated instances occurred subsequently where an examination of the lung tissue of deceased asbestos workers only are people who actually work * with asbestos exposing themselves to asbestosisand cancer but also that alliedttradesmnradesmen in the huilding construction industry closely associated fi with this work are subjected to this exposure Steam fitters electricians indicated the presetre of asbestos In 1924 an English physician Dr. carpenters acoustical workers sons structural steel erectors ma- and Cooke after an extensive autopsy and subsequent search of medical lit- erature concluded that the death of a patient resulted solely from the inhalation of asbestos fibers and assigned the name asbestosis to this disease An investigation of some 363 as- bestos workers in Great Brit ain in 1928 disclosed that 95 or about 25 per cent showed evidence of asbestosis As a result legislation was enacted in Great Britain to re- quire improvements in ventilation and exhaust systems in asbestos tile plants and periodic examination of workers Although this improvement in working conditions lengthened the life expectancy of these workers it was learned in 1935 b^ Dr. Lynch in this country that asbestos workers were dying of enneer as a result of their association with others employed on projects using asbestos insulation in the area of this contamination and who in- hale these asbestos particles are ex- for this posingthemselves themselves and are likely can- didates disease Equally disturbing is the fact that asbestos is practically indestructible while it may disintegrate it is an ev- erlasting contaminant in the atmosphere It has been estimated that during its application as fireproofing to structural steel membern and metal decks about 10 per cent overshouts and is projected into the atmosphere On high structures in urban areas usbestos fireproofing has been found three and four blocks from the construction site so that the unsuspecting general public is likewise subjected to this hazard as well as the tradesman directly in- volved in its application While this asbestos Independent investigatora in many parts of the world were likewise coming to the same conclusion based on their studies of the associ- relationship between Rk casual encounter with asbestos and possible development of disease in the public has not been established it behooves ation of workers with asbestos the architectural profession to con- Dr. Selikoff of New York's Mount- Mount- sider other materials to perform the Sinai Hospital had an opoprtunity work of sprayed fireproofing and to examine the records of members of insulation the Asbestos Workers Union The Not only is there a clear and pres study covered a sulation workers total of between 1522 in1942 and ent danger in the initial application of asbestos on the health of the in- 1962. It was found that the death stallers but 30 or 40 years hence rate from cancer among these as- bestos workers Was about seven times greater than that ofof the gen- timeswhite male S. U.S. population These observations are staggering IInn addition onemustmust conclude that when these buildings are torn down the demolition operations If not properly controlled will add more asbestos fibers to the atmosphere The time to use substitutes for asbestossprayed iinsulationisnow LEV0823A LEV082203A