COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey, Chairman JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia CLAIBORNE PELL, Rhode Island JACOB K. JAVITS, New York RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, Pennsylvania ROBERT T. STAFFORD, Vermont ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah JOHN H. CHAFEE, Rhode Island S. I. HAYAKAWA, California CONTENTS Text of Public Law 91-596- CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES OCTOBER 3, 1978 Marshall, Hon. F. Ray, Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, accompanied by Dr. Eula Bingham, Assistant Secretary OSHA_. Baier, Edward J., Deputy Director; Vernon E. Rose, Director, Division of Criteria Documentation and Standards Development; and Philip J. Bier- baum, Deputy Director, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evauations and Field Studies, a panel from the National Institute for Occupational Gillice, James T., loss prevention director, the Alliance of American Mann, Lon, president, National Cotton Council, Marianna, Ark.; Joe L. Lanier, Jr., president, Pepperell, Inc., West Point, Ga., chairman, Amer- ican Textile Manufacturers' Institute, safety and health committee; and George H. Dunklin, president, Planters Cotton Oil Mill, Pine Bluff, Ark., Booker, Gaylon B., on behalf of the National Cotton Council.. Copen, David Allen, Willow Island Disaster Organization, Parkersburg, W. Va., accompanied by Peggy Coffman____ Wheaton, Frank, Jr., president, Wheaton Industries, Millville, N.J_---. Rolston, K. S., executive vice president, American Pulpwood Association__ Sheehan, Charles T., vice president, government affairs, Cast Metals Fed- eration, Westchester, Ill.; and Arthur K. Mann, vice president and general manager, Riverside Foundry Division, Donsco, Inc., Wrights- Biemiller, Andrew J., director, department of legislation, American Fed- eration of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, accompanied by George H. R. Taylor, director of AFL-CIO department of occupa- tional safety and health; and F. Howard McGuigan, legislative Fike, Elmer A., president, Fike Chemicals, Inc., Nitro, W. Va.-- Durr, Robert J., chairman, mechanical contractors safety committee, Mechanical Contractors Association of America, Inc., and vice president, Karrh, Bruce W., M.D., medical director, E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del., representing the Manufacturing Chemists Association, accompanied by R. D. Fulwiler, Ph. D., associate director, health de- partment, the Proctor & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; Jerry M. Smith, Ph. D., director of toxicology, Rohm & Haas Co., Spring House, Pa.; and Ned K. Walters, manager, safety and fire protection, E. I. Du Pont Page 3 116 STATEMENTS Page AFL-CIO, public employee department, prepared statement_. Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO, George 375 75 137 American Textile Manufacturers Institute, Inc., Joseph L. Lanier, Jr., on behalf of, prepared statement----. 99 American Textile Manufacturers Institute, Inc., Washington, D.C., prepared statement__. Baier, Edward J., Deputy Director; Vernon E. Rose, Director, Division of Criteria Documentation and Standards Development; and Philip J. Bierbaum, Deputy Director, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, a panel from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health_. Biemiller, Andrew J., director, department of legislation, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, accompanied by George H. R. Taylor, director of AFL-CIO department of occupational safety and health; and F. Howard McGuigan, legislative representative Booker, Gaylon B., on behalf of the National Cotton Council_. Cast Metals Federation, Charles T. Sheehan, vice president, government affairs, prepared statement__ 130 51 222 116 192 Copen, David Allen, Willow Island Disaster Organization, Parkersburg, 150 Donsco, Inc., Wrightsville, Pa., Arthur K. Mann, vice president and gen- Prepared statement_. Fike, Elmer A., president, Fike Chemicals, Inc., Nitro, W. Va.. Gillice, James T., loss prevention director, the Alliance of American Prepared statement_. Karrh, Bruce W., M.D., medical director, E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del., representing the Manufacturing Chemists Association, accompanied by R. D. Fulwiler, Ph. D., associate director, health department, the Proctor & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; Jerry M. Smith, Ph. D., director of toxicology, Rohm & Haas Co., Spring House, Pa.; and Ned K. Walters, manager, safety and fire protection, E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del__. Prepared statement____ Mann, Lon, president, National Cotton Council, Marianna, Ark.; Joe L. Manufacturing Chemists Association, Bruce W. Karrh, M.D., medical Marshall, Hon. F. Ray, Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, accompanied 35 statement 291 Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of the United States, Inc., prepared statement.. 381 National Cotton Council of America, Lon Mann, president, prepared statement 84 Planters Cotton Oil Mill, Inc., George H. Dunklin, president, prepared statement 109 Public Citizen's Health Research Group, Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D., and Prepared statement__ South Carolina Department of Labor, E. L. McGowan, commissioner of labor, prepared statement--. Page 415 178 182 192 402 164 Wheaton, Frank, Jr., president, Wheaton Industries, Millville, N.J_- ADDITIONAL INFORMATON Articles, publications, etc.: Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records, from the Manufacturing Chemists Association___. 339 Elmer's Tune, volume V, June 1977, by Elmer A. Fike__. 241 351 162 OSHA's Action Plan on Cancer, by Robert W. Merry, from the Wall 414 234 Levenhagen, Thomas E., Area Director, U.S. Department of Labor, Williams, Hon. Harrison A., Jr., a U.S. Senator from the State of New 213 Barber, Charles F., chairman, nonferrous smelter advisory 398 Fike, Elmer A., president, Fike Chemicals, Inc., Nitro, W. Va., 283 Hanna, Thomas H., senior vice president, Motor Vehicle Manu- 380 119 407 136 Selected charts: Compliance with OSHA's Health Standard for Vinyl Chloride, 1974 and 1977___ 47 Estimated Number of Occupational Exposures for Selected Substances that OSHA has Regulated__ Occupational Illnesses and Injury Incidence Rates 1972 to 1976_. Questions and answers: Responses from Hon. F. Ray Marshall, Secretary, Department of 448 |