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FILE NAME Jewelers JEWEL DATE 1988 DOC JEWEL003 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Published Journal Article Page 1 only of mucous ied nausea heartburn 3 subjects , although t incidents a 24 to 48 luded poor | idling of hen ventiof several uality fuel cupational en defined jual miners h is needed tion should associated ica for their try effects of Aiculates from llution Control . IC 8666 US on Emissions Maintenance to areau of Mines posed to diesel 189 dine pp 38-42 American Journal of Industrial Medicine 407 4110988 BRIEF COMMUNICATION Jewelry Asbestos Disease in the Report of Two Cases Industry David G. Kern MD MOH and Howard Frumkin MD MPH We describe two cases of asbestos pulmonary disease in jewelry workers Esoxlpdoesruirnegsbooaccrudrsred during the mixing of asbestos powder used to make jewelry Key words asbestosis asbestos pulmonary disease pleural plaques soldering soldering boards ; INTRODUCTION Rhode Island is the capital of the nation's jewelry industry Thirty thousand of its residents are employed in the manufacture of costume and precious jewelry Workers in this industry face a number of recognized hazards including exposures to acids solvents cyanide metals and noise and risk of accident Wuraftic and Hickey 1938 Martin 1978 Quinn et al 1980 Jones and Slovin 1983 In this paper we report two cases of asbestos pulmonary disease occurring in jewelry workers CASE 1 A.T. a year man presented to the Roger Williams General Hospital Occupational Health Service in October 1985. From 1939 to 1982 he spent 8 hours daily making soldering forms Fig 1 for use in his family's costume jewelry manufacturing plant In the process he mixed asbestos powder plaster of paris and water and shaped the resulting mud into 15 ^ 15 ^ cm patties He then made surface impressions in the mud to hold jewelry pieces for soldering In preparing for a new soldering job he routinely rubbed together two forms to obliterate existing impressions and rewet their surfaces before making fresh indentations When asbestos powder was unavailable he obtained it by hand grinding asbestos sheets He wore no RPhroodgreaImslianndOcDc.upGa.tiKo.naHl.MFe.dicine Roger Williams General Hospital Brown University Providence Department of Epidemiology Harvard School of Public Health Boston H.F. This work was supported by NIEHS Environmental Training Grant 1 T32 ES07069 Address reprint requests to David G. Kern MD MOH Department of Medicine Roger Williams General Hospital 825 Chalkstone Avenue Providence RI 02908 Accepted for publication September 16 1987 ; Brown University '1988 Alan R. Liss Inc.