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FILE NAME: Drywall Spackling Compounds (DWSC)
DATE: 1974 May
DOC#: DWSC044
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Magazine Publication -" Asbestos Danger Cited," with Internal Memo from Georgia Pacific
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May 17, 1974
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Perhaps it won't happen. But then,
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come so important? The construction industry had lit
MONO - KO" tie idta what was over the honion
Hwehaalnth thActOwccuuppaatsiosendal bSyacitotnyi and. Asbtstos Dangtr Cited
tor th i tust risulti u:
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In duo court, OSHA develop
Taping and speckling compounds
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into a major source of concern lor used in drywall finishing may ex
all contractors. Everybody'!/(or pose workers to dangerous levels of
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safety, of court*, and few thought asbestos fibers, according to OSHA
passage of the federal law Would officials.
make very much difference in con
The warning followed an exami
ducting a business. It's made a ' 'halt nation of 17 members of a New York
of a big difference.
City painters' local. Tests showed
Congress has created enothe ' bu the lungs of nine painters had X-ray
reau which hasn't received a freat evidence of fibrosis, or excessive se
0 deal of attention. Maybe it Von't cretion build-up in the lungs.
have too much impact on eo
Employer groups and unions are
lion. On tha other hand, it eoul^ ba being asked to alert workers to the
coma a bureaucratic giant affecting potential hazard, said lederal safety
almost every business.
authorities.
Made especially for
It's the Consumer Product Safer
Nethen Kimmel, Ine.
Commission, which b 11e v c s
Longer lasting urethane mate
home it second only to the automo bile as the most dangerous "product'*
Moosbruggtr Passes
Will fit Thomsen and Essie
on the market today. If CPSC is all
Longtime iaWCC member Louis J.
plastering guns.
that worried about homes, why not Moosbrugger died in Lake Worth.
offices, warehouses, and all build ings?
Florida, in February. He founded Northwestern Plastic Art. Milwau
NATHAN KIMMEL, Ih
Tha Commission reasons that since it has jurisdiction over appliances, it
kee. in 1923. and developed the NuStone system of simulated stone
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follows that it has authority over masonry executed in plaster. North
Los Angeles, California 900
wiring. The wiring's attached to structural framing, so that too must
western Plastic Art it Nu-5tona Co.. Inc., la now h eadad by his son,
(213) 27-4336
come within their jurisdiction. By Robert
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