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FILE NAME: Drywall Spackling Compounds (DWSC) DATE: 1975 Aug 14 DOC#: DWSC051 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - HEW Warns of Asbestos Hazard in Work With Brake Linings, Spackling Mixtures THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, r j Thursday, August 14,1975 ' * 1 $1.7-million, or 51.78 a share. in_thi>..j87.u_ "LfXUiiU: I P U ,N T ,F f 'SEXHIB IT IE W Warns of Asbestos H azard in Work :R7ith Brake Linings, Spackling Mixtures ... -, .- , i A Wau, S n trrr J oubnau Nuw* Roundup*' .... ... sidered in-relation to other evidence being Government' agencies.renewed warnings about exposure' to asbestos, a'Tcbmmohiy u sed 'mirieral that scientists sajrtcan' cause ' serious- and disabling lung disease? including fatal lung cancer. .i, ,1/ . "-. ' -.The National Institute' for 'Oecupational Safety and Health-, ,a research' arm.of-.the Department' of Health, Education'and Wei- fare, said in a letter to health experts tha^ garage .personnel/w ho' changed-mj.Vgrind "brake..lioings ,arg,Jieing.exposed;t^.poten- accumulated by thp'Mount Sinai-group that indicates that far leas than the intense-expo- sure-of the* work-environment ia capable o f producing."-asbestos-related. disease,"- h saicLu.., ......, ,, .... - . . ... ,1 s The Environmental'Sciences Laboratory of-Mount Sinai,, which under the direction of Dr.'.Irving j /s e llk o f i has been the ifeader in research- on? the; d a n g e r s o f asbestos, re- -ported Jn'.Science. ,th a t ith a c L analyzed 15 sam pls'prspakling,,patcWrig'and'jointing- compoundspurchased in New York City and faunff-' that flv'-; contained ..appreciable amount of asbestos: "Use,of -these materials' r he'kiths'3UiyeUlanca^said/tht^'alto<xigh'',a f y t u i m rep ait w prk'(for-expiple,'m ixing, sy stem a tic'stu d y -o f these 'wbrkers "liadn't 'sandingVand fpleanup)- m ay expose, the'-user --,7 t been^mttoe^levete-ofiasbestoa dust-are high (andvother .m inbersof^the-, household) ;to enough to cuse damage and that four can-, . sigkficant;<^ncentratiohsof;.asbe3t_os,'' they c e r deaths-associated with, such'work had . . been.reported. ", "t/.i '-v -Warnings'Urged - 3 ,Another'arm of HEW, meanwhile, said it ,,The. scientist3 .said. that,- even more im- '. found " alarm ing''' .-.study,that'showed var- p o r ta n t.n o n p f.the'spackling -compounds lopspackUng'com pounds used fyr home re/, mUained.warning labels or indications that - ' patre'-contain .coheentiaiibna of'asbestoe sut- it.; containedr-haardoiia -materials.: (T h ey -i/ficieu t to cause disease. Th study, by sclen- .urged jJm.suci labels;beiquired,'with-in- ,j-.-'tists at Mount fflpai &hocd.-of^Medlcine hr strucons for safer u sa g e.'/ ; --/New Y o r k -w h p J a T O .^ ^ th e h a m fu l'f- \:>The,Mbun^Sir^-,scientists'were.so, re- / f le e t s , pf/aslKos;'t'y^6us?occupation.'pr spWMiWeXin'-part,':'ipv thje. NIOSH warnings , ."pear'ed recently in Science, a publication; of about brake-drum. liningsv/The NIOSH; letter ;; the American. Association.'for .the 'Advance.-, .noted, that the Mount Sinai.inyesgptors had - - 'm ent of Sciencii.^y.jV ^'/v?,S it `determined that workers'"engaged'"in. the' . Exposure at Ho me / / . - . > . . . maintenance and repair-of automobile and ' C om m enting'on :the/repOrt, ;Dayid P. truck brake'linings " are exposed-to poten Rail,"'director- of th' National institute of tially hazardous levels-of airborne asbestos Environm ental ; Health -v Sciences, ; said,.- d u s U - : / : ^ . : f y - "These. flndingsr suggest .the 'possibility of ' " One of. th'sdensts'said in an interview- .home construc- that .'particularly large.am ounts of danger - " / t - I ous asbestoa- dust ,were "created in mainte (Mount. Sinai) n an ce, shops where the larg\ asbestos-lin scientiste suggests that m em bers.of th e en- ings of trucks and buses, were ground to fit , ' tire household or other occupants:. .m a y the brake drum or .were resurfaced after also inhale a sb e sto s1 fibers," Mr. B ail use. He' said that the; changing of asbestos added.' ,. t brake linings for automobiles was also dan C/TThese results "are alarming, when' con- gerous because mechanics usually use an air hose to blow out the loose dust after re " .......j moving the*old.lining. n::'-~,v : " NIOSH estimated that.as many as 900,000 workers are,exposed to asbestos in the man ufacturing and 'servicing of brake1, linings and- clutches,., moat of whom are auto, me-, chanics. The agency recommended, as an interim procedure, that repair shops desig nate a segregated area tor all brake and clutch repairs and that sighs be posted in those area s pointing out the dangers of as bestos dust. It also said that repairmen should wear respirators when doing such work, and that strong vacuum cleaners be used to remove asbestos dust from brake drums before working.on them. BON -01011