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FILE NAME Allied Signal Bendix ASB DATE 1979 Aug 18 DOC ASB127 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newspaper Article - 1977 Asbestos Study Results at Bendix Plant Challenged mo e oe ey tee WARNINGTON WARNINGTON WARNINGTON WARNINGTONWARNINGTON DENING MON DENING } 5 RECORD THE TIMES * THE SUNDAY RECORD FINGE IO9I . | SERVING TROY AND FIVE CAPITAL DISTRICT COUNTIES ; __ _d Ve TROY INC PUBLISHED BY THE TROT PUBLISHING CO ; hd roa / " OF UNGLE AN 501 ' BROADWAY TROY . : NEW YORK IZIBI TELEPHONE 518/272/2000 August 21 1979 RECEIVED RECEIVED RECEIVED H . 211979 211979 7 , David 03 ' Taxior Manager - Corporate News Relations The Bendix Corporation Executive Offices - #Bendix Center Southfield Michigan 48076 DAVID Q TAYLOR Dear Mr. Taylor 0 Enclosed is the article which resulted from my work with the mortality study It was carried on page 12 of The Times Record on Saturday August 18 Thank you for your cooperation during the investigation Sincerely Cine Cine M 2/100 Anne M. Hess PLAINTIFF'S 80-63198 EXHIBIT 794 PENGAD THE RECORD NEWSPAPERS SERVING NEW YORK'S SECOND FASTEST GROWING METRO MARKET DUKES 002876 1977 asbestos study results at Bendix plant challenged - By ANNE HESS Staff Writer . have never been shown to be asbestos There is an A NATIONALLY excess mortality which could be associated with some and cancer has challenged theexrpeesrutltsonof aasb1e97s7tosstuedxypmosaudree occupational exposure other than asbestos the researchers concluded although the scientific literature suggests no at the Green Island Bendix plant which showed no obvious mechanism frerloamtiaonsshsipobcetiweaetn eexdposure to asbestos there and deaths Selikoff who recently completed a federally study diseases In response the doctor who conducted the study said that the which showed lung damage in 86.2 percent of shipyard definitive results were not workers who were exposed to asbestos for at least 20 years | After reading the study which was commissioned by said Eighty percent of Bendix workers studied have been " Bendix Dr. Irving Selikoff of the Mount Sinai employed less than 15 years and most of our lung Center in New York said There aren't sufficient Moevdeircaalll cancers come 30 35 or 40 years following onset of exposure findings that would merit the conclusions reached by the - to asbestos Selikoff continued If you were to take who have people researchers or conclusions of any type one way or the other begun smoking at age 20 and look at them at age 30 you wouldn't expect to see anything The study which was carried out by Dr. William Gaffey of the Stanford Research Institute of California examined the Gaffey said Enough of these people were termers that we would want to go back and look again in another five death rates and causes of death of 1,903 present and or _ years past workers at the Green Island plant In comparing the Bendix ofSetlhiiksoff added There are statistical problems with things workers with the expected statistics for white males the type since all deaths even those that occurred a week a researchers found no more people dead than would be month a year or five years following work exposure there expected However they did find more cancers of all types must dilute the afriendiinncglsudIetd and the inclusion of such deaths _ and more cancers of the central nervous system than they would expect with dilution potential there was striking that even was even more cancer such than an . In interview Friday Gaffey who is no longer with the expected The Bendix Stanford Research Institute said don't think this is a Labor's plant fined 600 by the Department of definitive study One does not look at this and say Well Occupational Safety and Health Administration for inadequate control of ' we we're safe One looks and says Well didn't find . OSHA records A asbestos dust in 1975 according to and anything that is a fact didn't spokesman for OSHA said in July that The researchers said that the large number of total although his department was concerned with the possible cancer cases is the result of excess mortality from cancers of term effects of asbestos exposure OSHA could not to specific sites and in any case was greatest in those with the investigate those effects in workers There shortest periods of employment Cancers developing in men are probably a million places like Bendix the spokesman said All with short periods of employment at Bendix are not - we're trying to do is correct conditions as they exist now . consistent with an occupational association the study says United The specific cancers which killed more people were brain Lou Falco business agent for Local 1508 of the Auto Workers the union at Bendix said that the conclusions cancer which was the cause of death of five Bendix employees of Gaffey's study had been printed and distributed to and malignant melanoma a skin cancer which workers at the plant in 1977 _ killed two employees The development of the cancer in men had worked . who the longest at Bendix and the latency period _ You used to be able see the dust flying in the shafts of sunlight Falco said Now of the cancer were consistent with an occupational origin a he study reported they have a whole new duct system and new pelletizing machine to take care of the asbestos , The study argues however that brain and skin cancers Falco added Since 1974 everything's been good