ID#: 9629
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Ventilated depanning unit in a Massachusetts covered wire and cable manufacturing industry. Large amounts of talc were used in vulcanizing rubber covered wire to keep the covered wire coils from sticking to each other. After vulcanizing, the talc was dumped on the floor and then shoveled into storage until the next use, generating great amounts of talc dust, which contained asbestos. This photo shows an improvement on the operation. It was published in “Massachusetts Plants Collaborate to Control Dusty Operations,” Industrial Hygiene Newsletter, v. 10 n. 12, December 1950 with this description: “The pan cleaning unit consists of a rotating table on which the pan is placed, and an exhausted scoop for removing the surplus talc from the pan. The talc is pneumatically conveyed to tan enclosed bin for storage until needed.”
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Barbara Jenkins, NIOSH; PHS IHD
Creation Date: 1950
Photo Credit: Massachusetts Division of Occupational Hygiene, Massachusetts Dept. of Labor and Industries
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