Birdsboro Corporation of Pennsylvania -- Four NDT Radiographic Sources

(6/2/15) of Birdsboro APPENDIX B and the new information on NDT radiographic sources
terms now documented at three time periods: 2007, 2011-12 and June 2015.

Respectfully submitted,

J SIGNATURE ON FILE

6/13/15

Daniel W. McKeel, Jr. MD Date
GSI, Dow {IL) and Texas City

Chemicals SEC Co-petitioner
SINEW cofounder

Retired Assoc. Prof. of Pathology & Immunology
Washington Univ. Sch. Med. St. Louis, MO

Current Contact Information:


Birdsboro Corporation of Pennsylvania -- Four NDT Radiographic Sources

Appendix B Rev 1 for Birdsboro was issued by NIOSH on 6/2/15 and was eight pages long.
The document URL link is: www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas/awedocs.html#b6000. David Allen
was the author. Approval was by James Neton. There apparently is no assigned NIOSH
Public Docket for Birdsboro. An SEC has apparently not been submitted for the Birdsboro
AWE site. The Birdsboro Appendix B is listed under AWE site wide documents.

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None of the four classes of Birdsboro Corporation NDT radiography sources documented on
pages 1 and 2 of this report were included in Birdsboro Appendix B Rev 0 (2007) or Rev 1
(June 2, 2015). This is a major oversight that needs to be corrected.

NIOSH needs to follow up on this report and research further (a) when each of the
Birdsboro NDT source terms were acquired and used for NDT radiographic inspections,
which are mentioned on page 3 of 8 of the Rev 1 Appendix B document, as follows:

<quote> Pieces of billets and rods from various rollings were sent to different
locations for analysis and inspections. It is not known why Birdsboro received these
pieces but it is assumed they were for metallurgical analysis.<end quote> I suggest
the pieces of billets and rods were sent to Birdsboro because of the extensive array of
NDT radiographic resources at that location as is documented by us herein and earlier.

If NIOSH is unable to bound all radiation source terms—24 Mev Betatron, 300 KVP X-ray,
200 millicurie Co-60 and 500 mg Radium (presumably Ra-226)—for all Birdsboro
Corporation PA workers during the covered and residual contamination periods, then
NIOSH should issue a §83.14 Special Exposure Cohort for the AWE site, according to OCAS-
1G-003 and EEOICPA lawful guidance documents. NIOSH should also rework the five (5)
completed Birdsboro dose reconstructions factoring in the 4 documented NDT radiography
source terms delineated in this report.

The ABRWH should assign Birdsboro to a work group and ensure that NIOSH incorporates
all four NDT radiation source terms into a revised Appendix B Rev 1. The Board needs to
task SC&A to review Appendix B Rev 1. The Board needs to assure that NIOSH issues a PER
based on Appendix B that includes the four NDT radiography source terms at Birdsboro.

Footnote: All four types of source terms now documented on the record at Birdsboro Steel
Foundry Corporation in Birdsboro, PA, were also present at the General Steel Industries
(GSI) AWE site located at 1417 State Street in Granite City, IL. The Board, NIOSH and SC&A
have been deliberating about GSI Appendix BB Rev 0 and Rev 1 and PERS-024 and PER-057
since June 25, 2007 and still have not resolved all of the SC&A findings. Clearly, a similar
deliberative process needs to take place at the Birdsboro PA AWE site based on Rev 1


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Dragon, Karen E. (CDC/NIOSH/EID)

From: Daniel McKeel - .

Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 9:21 AM

To: NIOSH Docket Office (CDC); Katz, Ted (CDC/NIOSH/OD)

Ce: danmckee!: melius@nysliuna.org; pl.ziemer@comcast.net; Wade, Lewis

(CDC/NIOSH/OD) (CTR); Hinnefeld, Stuart L. (CDC/NIOSH/DCAS); Neton, Jim
(CDC/NIOSH/DCAS); Allen, David (CDC/NIOSH/DCAS); :
bradley.clawson@icp.doe.gov; clawbp’_

Subject: AWE wide documents: NIOSH Docket Office submission

Attachments: McKeel_BirdsboroPA_aweDocket.pdf, Schuetz_BirdsboroBetatron_2pgs..pdf

NIOSH Docket Office and DFO Ted Katz,

Please consider the attached four page report and this cover letter for posting on the DCAS website under AWE Site wide
documents, there being no specific NIOSH Docket | am aware of for the Birdsboro Corporation of Pennsylvania AWE site.
This information complements recent e-mails | have sent documenting pages 31 and 70 of the Jack Schuetz 2007
contracted report to NIOSH (Sam Glover) that was part of the basis for GSI Appendix BB Rev 0 released in June 2007.
Those two pages document that Birdsboro Corp. of Birdsboro, PA had an Allis-Chaimers 24-25 Mev Betatron installed.

(PDFs attached) We know further from historical internet documents that the US Army Corps of Engineers constructed the
Birdsboro PA Betatron building, we believe in the early 1950s.

This report is

titled: Daniel W. McKeel, Jr., MD,“Submission to NIOSH Docket Concerning Multiple NDT Radiographic Source Terms at the B
irdsboro, PA EEOICPA AWE Site,” June 13, 2015. Please post as such. Thank you.

The attached report concerns multiple radiographic NDT source terms that my colleague . and | have
documented, in 2007, 2011-12, and during June 2015, as being present and used at the Birdsboro
Corp. PA plant. Documentation was supplied to the ABRWH, NIOSH, and SC&A. New material that is
highly pertinent to the recently released (6/2/15) Rev 1 of Birdsboro Appendix B is included from a
newly found reference book on Steel Foundries in America and Canada.

Ted Katz, please distribute this cover letter and the attached four page PDF file to all current ABRWH members and to
others you believe are appropriate recipients. This memo should be of special interest to Board member Brad Clawson,
who was himself an NDT radiographer for ten years prior to becoming an ABRWH Presidential appointee. Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

-- Dan McKee! June 13, 2015 Saturday

Daniel W. McKeel, Jr., MD

GSI, Dow (IL) and TCC SEC
co-petitioner

SINEW cofounder


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Birdsboro Corporation of Pennsylvania -- Four NDT Radiographic Sources

Daniel W. McKeel, Jr., MD
“Submission to NIOSH Docket
Concerning Multiple NDT Radiographic
Source Terms at the Birdsboro, PA
EEOICPA AWE Site”

June 13, 2015

6/13/15 memorandum — . contacted the Steel Founders’ Society of
America, a trade association apparently, after seeing their publication “Directory of Steel
Foundries in the United States and Canada 1957-58" on the internet during May-June
2015. His contact person was SFSA librarian Diana David.

The topic that led to this discovery was the issuance by NIOSH in June 2015 of Rev 1 of
Appendix B for the Birdsboro Machine and Foundry Company of Birdsboro, PA.

: and McKeel were aware of the fact that Birdsboro foundry was one of the sites
that possessed and used an Allis-Chalmers 22-25 Mev Betatrons for NDT radiography.

Pages 31 and 70 of the 72 page report that Jack Schuetz delivered, under contract, to
OCASINIOSH health physicist Sam Glover in 2007, showed that ATC Betatron
Corporation, P.O. Box 2639, West Allis, WI 53214 [phone: (414) 475-2867] listed
“Birdsboro Corporation, Birdsboro, Pennsylvania” as having a “25 MEV BETATRON
INDUSTRIAL INSTALLATION” on page 31 of the Schuetz report. An asterisked note at
the bottom of this page notes: “ATC BETATRON CORPORATION is successor to The
ALLIS-CHALMERS Betatron Department. Allis-Chalmers is a currently covered
EEOICPA AWE site as is the Birdsboro Foundry Corporation.

Diana David is the librarian of the Steel Founders’ Society of America ("SFSA’). Her
contact information, from a e-mail to Dan McKee! dated June 10 2015, is
as follows:

Diana David

780 McArdle Drive Unit G

Crystal Lake, IL 60014

O: (815) 676 - 6536

M: (205) 936 - 1703

E-mail: ddavid@sfsa.org

opines this is a private library. He is attempting to obtain the whole book from Ms.
David via ILL. The alternate plan is for to do an ILL request from his local St.
Charles, MO library. A listing Dan McKeel saw said the book is at the St. Louis Public
Library.

The entry in the Directory of Steel Foundrie:
Machine Company reads, in part, as follow:
“24,000,000 volt Betatron, 300 KVP X-Ray, 200 M.C. Cobalt 60 isotopes,

500 Milligram Radium.”
A copy of this entire page is enclosed as page 2 of this communication.
Non Destructive Test Facilities: 24,009,090 vole Bezarron, 360 KVP X-Ray,
200 M.C. Cobale 60 Isotopes, $00 Milh-

gram Radium.

.." book for Birdsboro Steel Foundry and



Birdsboro Corporation of Pennsylvania -- Four NDT Radiographic Sources

Birdsboro Entry Page 40 “Directory of Steel Foundries
in the United States and Canada 1961-62”
Cornell and Google Digitized Edition

* “BIRDSBORO CORPORATION
Main Office and Foundry: Birdsboro, Pennsylvania
Telephone: JUniper 2-2011

PERSONNEL: G. CLYMER BROoxE, President; James M. HEPPEN-

staux, Vice President and Treasurer; A. L. WENTZEL, Vice Presi-
dent and Works Manager; Epwanp C. Pererson, Vice President,
Rolling Mill Equipment Division; Ropert W. Frank, Vice Presi-
dent; Lester E, Lemsacn, Secretary; Bertram A. Kune, As-
sistant Vice President; CortLannot W. GuTuri, Assistant to
Vice President; ABRAHAM S. Horret, Assistant Treasurer; JoHN
L. Rose, Works Controller; RatpH W. Brown, Railroad
Specialties; Ropert V. Sumpson, Railroad Specialties; Wavrer
Gumpper, Purchasing Agent; HucH Suirrer, Assistant Works
Manager; Roveric J. O'Connor, Assistant Works Manager;
Epwarp R. Lecerone, Foundry Superintendent; Samui W.
GearuarT, Jr., Chief Metallurgist; A. B. McCutroucn, Di-
rector of Industrial Relations.

Type of Castings Produced: Navy, Ordnance, Ship and Marine, Rail-

road, Rolling Mill, Hydraulic Press, Rock
Crushers, Dredge, Hydro-electric, Steel
and Iron Rolls, and Miscellaneous Cast-

ings,

Size of Castings Produced: 1 to 100,000 lbs.

Produces: Carbon, Alloy Castings.

Melting Equipment: One 10-ton Basic Electric furnace.
One 20-ton Basic Electric furnace.
One 40-ton Basic Electric furnace.

Heat Treating Equipment: Available at Foundry.

Quenching Equipment: Available at Foundry.

Non Destructive Test Facilities: 24,000,000 volt Betatron, 300 KVP X-Ray,

200 M.C. Cobalt 60 Isotopes, 500 Milli-

gram Radium.
Use of Product: 85% for sale; 15% for own use.
Number of Employees: 1,500.

Monthly Capacity, Net Tons: 2,860.

Maintains:

Pattern Shop, Facilities for Machining Cast-
ings, Welding Shop, Cast-Weld and Fabri-
cation Department, Roll Foundry.

Further investigation on the DOL/OWCP EEOICPA Statistics by State website that, as of
6/07/15, Birdsboro Corp. had 25 part B claims and 15 cases and only 1 payment, NIOSH
performed 5 dose reconstructions and 0 zero, none) had a POC 2 50%. The 5 completed
dose reconstructions apparently were based on Appendix B Rev 0 dated 8/14/2007.
There are no cases at NIOSH pending DR for the Birdsboro site as of 6/07/15.