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The Louisville Times page b-h * -* 61 @*m ... - r . * ,. Friday, June 21, 1974 X'd<| |\43fr- i*V? *- `I* rvcj.si- 4u * * *s 7 ', * ... t - '. i . '. Calvert City plastics get fiver tests : . By DENNIS POUTS "Ibey bar* found a lot of things wrong, '1- and DONALD H. HOUGHTON b*t they vwt say what it Is," be said. MMkTMnDmiim Kramer said. "We hm told them re- liver blopriw wt ordered on fife : workers t the Air Product*. 1st. plant 4e Calvert City, Ky.. becws* other re- s8-: ipeated test* bed Ceiled to show whether 1* their, exposure to vinyl chloride hod ; routed the rare liter cancer, tngiosar- St* 0*. - - - 5??i V The sfgnifimare el the hospitalisations, ?r. %Mch dimaxod * camptaywfcle medical if-j Irvcr-tcwRg program. hot caused dis- *.?! agreement between the pleat msna*e- rp; meet and a spokesman for the workers. poatodly era don't have Uw revolts. It to a raedical matter." ; He arid the doctor in the cases baa told the workers he vrill send the tost retails to their private physicians. Kramer said the doctor to *bcty. bury" and does not have time to talk individual ly wilh each mas. Beck says be can't eves get the com pany to give him a complete report on the recalls cf the two tests bo took. & ; At lri on* cf the workers mey hev* Ki:--. Been fovod free of the suspected center. ' Ttt remit; of the other four men'* tests 5 j. aTf not fo yet, according to J. D. Kramer, V plant '.sanagtr. - >3 Kramer teid the men were hospitalised ;-.j 'after repealed tests showed their liver fraction* to he sboonnaL The needle jbwr-fies, or lhftr sampling with a tore* were ordered taeniis* of the fail* H : we f the oUmt txats, be *eML i . Exposure to vinyl chloride is believed . to bare caused angiosarcoma in et least ( seven worker* at the B. P. Goodrich i Chemical Co. plant her* in Louisville on t Bells Lane. Five of fbe seven have died { frooths canter. v Angiararcuin* atoo has been identified the ms> of death of other Person* who tune been exposed to vinyl chloride. Kramer, srid an undetermined number of men will be or lure bees misted be cause of the recall* of their initial test*. Beck ear* he recently took e second teat. Kramer said the full repeat on the feetIrtt program will be made in Washington next week at a bearing sponsored by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Adratototrattoa on the changing of the htpocore Cmit* to vinyl chloride. The gov ernment agency is proposing a. rn feral of exposure. The present "emergence" level is a maximum exposure of 9 pari* vinyl chloride per million parts of air* enofenth the original standard. ; Beck, who said be has worked'W tba cto&t for 15 years, said most of the meg hospitalised have worked there about rid year*. Honaver. on* man has wwk*4 IS yean in vinylcbJoride operation, ho arid,. Air PnxiacU porchases vinyl chloride from a Goodrich plant in Culvert Ci*y and use* it to make polyrinyl chloride, a pUS* lie, according to Kramer. 1H wid aB of the Air ITodocts men tested bare worked near vinyl chloride for some portion* of their career* at the phut. ; Krcroer arid tho five men showed quo*tlonable results when the comprmj began. tnedSeal Watt on its 330 employe*. Kramer's. view of ths situation cob* flirif is some points with that of Sanford Beck, preri&at of Loctl STrt cf tbo Cl), Cbesitoal ft Atomic it orkere Union. In telephone istcrvkvr yesterday. Beck said from PadutAh tbs* il men wen either hospitalized pr <toted to go into . Bock said the. local union ha* appealed to the union headquarters in Washingtow and to government ageack* in an Effort to leant mo* abbot the situation it the. Chlvest City plant. 4. "It's a pretty touchy thing with uf now," be arid, "if this is not a safe place to work they ought to shut it down." Bed: said some men are told their teats have com back "positive." He said, how ever, that many worker* hare net been told woat "pcsitire" means. The gorerrszKat bearing in Washington begins amid new developments in the vinyl-chioride situation that came to pub lic Light in January when Goodrich anuoucoed tire fust of it* death*. the hospital for biopsies. Beck said the nc-j were bospoafixed because "something is '-r? jrg wila tbalr Uvcr*." P? ?54 the ee.'trtt.'vr > 'nvt rcvoclec BFG25516 very much ahota the ttitiag proeratn to the rorkcra.' "Thty 1 ;.$ that ii atlidag is grout Ukii'ii uii a id.. 23405001