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Mr* 2* k* MbSay - Be* York ton) SHIP TAfiD BRIE BA3B ia&ut 29, 19U5 mi Is A* B tlaoaid Toledo Mr* J* Xnrlas Bm York Yaw thoroughgoing report of legist 21 about He westing with He group at Todd Skip Yard* Srie Baala. & mt interesting, aad I agree heartily with you that raw Hlags ocn be ao adwantageou* to us la Ha lone run aa a Meeting of Hie aorU I m aLjl^ glad to knar ttmt you aro g>lag ahead with a progrws or His kind and Hat ly tha tlm thla mm reashoe von, a similar nesting probably will km hoon held at tho Todd Hoboken Yard* , Yota* raport oonflros ay bailor that our representatlM eaa do aa increas ingly effeetiM job for Ha oqapacy by ooDatant follow-up wlH Ho indus trial hygienists, plant physicians, aafety engineers, aad production people ImolTod* They art the aaot who finally determine tha acceptability of our notarial! Onm. a handling point of view, and it is a* important to toll then aa It la la Ho first instnnoe to pat an ordar oa the baali of engineering perforasaoe* Tha question ralaod by Or* Hnlscaloo concerning duat oouat aad prooipitaticc la difficult to answer heoauaa ao may factors art invoiced* Tha relatively ooarae wool flbara will aattla rapidly in opaa and laxoonfinad spaoM* 20 snaloaad or ao&fi&ed spaoca with iaadequata ventilertieu, it will, of course, aattla aore slowly. Thla question of eettlMsnt la, howover, r anadasdo one la tier of He fact Hat Or* OtrdMr*s research ilaanTwtrs.taa Hat suH fibers Hat do float in Ha air art not iobalahla, aad Hat at worst Ha rrwapns of such fibers would ho only a Ml Sanaa oharaotaristio on Ha job* I recall a eta. tenant wade in Ha offloa of Hafred Bowdltoh, Haaaohnaetta Direct** atf Industrial Syglsoe, la lw* her. 19U. by Dr* Louis SdHarti af He U* & Public Health Sendee, Han a eWlar atasUom .was put to him tor a greyp of A**U* repreoantathree* Dr* Solavu told Haas wm Hat although ha la net a lang pathologist, ha ooold a#ara than Hat thay had aoHing Hat so ever ta tarry about fro* flbara Hat ooold ha ossa, alaoa such flbara ware too large to gat lata He respiratory tract, and that the swage of fiber disasters la Fibergins atariala was Wyapd He ttreahhold at which sash a hasard was scoountsred* FTsb tina to time, dost counts ham hoaa soda at Hi Sensfk plaat and at Ho Baatangdon pleat by stats officials, and several years ago a dost oomt was eade in Bseark by a representative ef Ha industrial hygiene fhondattflo* Ai you probably teas, a hasard ay he deawed to cadet only PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT ,i/i/-aa/i'S9 'll 0( 022 0730 * J. k MaEay - law Tort $,Augxst 2 19^5 if pertioles of oertaia tlui are found in oartola guantitiea -- so--thing like sersral UUan particles par ouhio foot* In ao case nt any dangerous oomoantratlan dwralopod, and as you lmcw, the only plaoe In our plants where workers are required to where mpira- tors is in Hid babah house because of a aillooaia hasard resulting fiw exposure to free ailioa is the hand] lag of aaad* Oooe the sand is treaa- foraed into glass, howoesr, tha Sillas changes into slliaatss, sx! tha aillooais haxard disappears. It is as entirely different story with asbostos. The asbestos fiber is the only ailioats that has been dator- wined by lung pathologists to lnsolee a lane hasard. This la baoanae the asbestos fiber is crystalline in structure sad sdcrosooplaslly it is enake-liko in appeerunoe with sway vmrlapping, alaost needle-like, crystals. These crystals apn.tc.in water of hydration* Tha aahastoe fibers of oartain partiole sise and in certain oonoantratioai oan penatrata into , the respiratory passages and aause hawoe whan they reach tha aleeoli of the lungs where they sat up a ohaaiaal reaction with body fluids, sisilsr to that found in sillootioa. j I understand that only a hi^ly trained lun' pathologist osn differentiate ssbest08is free eilioosis* The synptons are s inilari dyspnoea (shortness of breath), hacking unproduotise oou^, alight eleaatian of taqparsture, etc* 7hr.nl gpodness we don't run into anything of that sort with Fiberglaa* I think the snake barker aot Mist have boon easy ocBrinolng. 1 an sanllng you separately a oan of Laa-0-Heoa far the relief of such ferthar torture as you oare to infllot upon yourself* Dost regards. SCAiHIC / 01 ow 0731