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FILE NAME John Crane JC DATE 1978 Sept 8 DOC JC101 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo to Ken Swanson form Louis Czaplewski RE Employees having concerns about asbestos monitoring More detailed description of document contents Letter with John Crane employees raising concerns about asbestos monitoring in one of the packing plants in 1978 5 years before John Crane claimed it first ever sent warnings out with the packaging of its asbestos products CRANE PACKING COMPANY TO KEN SWANSON FROM . > 9: ino) CC LOUIS CZAPLEW KI E. DEAN - 998 R. GIERAS - PERSONNEL W. KOCH - 959 mereeet ten V. A. E. VORHEES ZOBENS - 756 FP AB FPW W SP CATE SEPTEMBER 3 bbl: FEEDBACK FROM He PACKING BUTING _ PEPSINNT PEPSINNT REGARDING THE ASBESTOS MONITORING , PROGRAM While monitoring asbestos levels in the Packing Bldg the employees have been making comments asking questions about the safetoyf their working conditions and offering their impressions of the housekeeping practices in the building The following comments some of which are not within the direct scope of the their asbestos monitoring program do reflect an important and strong concern about ~... own safety and the safety of their fellow employees Consequently it seems important to consider their morale and their concern for a clean safe Fee workplace The Laboratory Staff is of the opinion that the following list of complaints should not be taken lightly but looked into by administrative personnel who are directly responsible for the personnel employed in the Packing Division These employees accept us as fellow employees who are concerned about their safety and industrial hygiene Most of them would be reluctant to voice their feelings to Management However the level of their morale would be greatly improved if some concrete improvements could be made in the areas pointed out below ummary of Employee Comments 1 Rows of asbestos braiding machines are spewing asbestos dust while only one small exhaust duct labors above few machines in the center of the rows Workers had been told that something would be done but nothing appears to have been done Workers are disgruntled by the empty promises of improvement 2 Vacuum cleaning of accumulated asbestos laden is from work areas machine surfaces and floors has been emphasized in the past is the safest means of disposal However employees complain that the vacuum cleaning equipment is not being used Cleaning by means of sweepinogn blowinbg lowing with compressed air hoses are common daily . procedur^s The 3 tebe clean up son. Compression Compression presses involves blowing essed air for yal of 20: 2. 15 which gather in and around the press area Clhiits ot Saphie Saphie and asort . be : Just are produced while fans blow dust around the area TU hadbe promised | that exhaust exhaust equipment equipment would would alleviate thethe problem hasbeen donetoidplementany improvement- ie eS ; : a EXHIBIT tabies 49 00261 000261 0 0261 000261 00261 reA - PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT 375-0001 -2- Septembe8r 1978 =) is Personnel handling and packaging left on the parts and they cannot zinc coated rings complain that excess zinc dust avoid inhaling it Inhalation leaves a metallic taste in their mouths for a long period of time after the exposure which may be a poten- tially dangerous health hazard 5 The above are the major comme,,which have been paraphrased for informative PUTCOSES We believe thse Exployees #alize that thayylions thayylions they are performing will ac rimes be less then desirable when they are working with products such as graphice asbestos and zinc powder 200. They are expressing their wishes for art addicional improves in the be cuce 22 cheis eyeeye was of any industrial hygiene which they believe concern to Crane Packing Company - 7 could The ...20 subject we wish to bring to your attention is the resistance we have encountered in istut monitoring of certain employees in the packing division : ; who had been cooperative in the past have lately become somewhat antagonistic thonitoring program Certain personnel in fact have outwardly refusetdo be bro~ When asked for reasons for their change tu atlitude they related that have seen little or no improvemenitn the general housekeeping procedures the inception of the monitoring program and 2 They have never been informed their individual test results obtained through the monitoring program FREIMANIS 1. FREIMANIS SEPT2 SEPT2 1978 F. WISNIEWSKI SEP SEP 1978 PAUL S. M. os PAUL | SEP 12 1978 Hilgeant 375-0002