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Narcogun Pd-345 (North American Refractories)

Documents in our library describe Narcogun Pd-345 (North American Refractories) as “gunning mixes or castables”.1 They put its asbestos content at 1%.1 The asbestos named is chrysotile. It was rated for temperatures up to 3300 °F.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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How Narcogun Pd-345 (North American Refractories) looked: labels, photographs and catalog pages from our library. Each picture has its own page and library number, so it can be cited on its own.

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What each document says

Every statement about Narcogun Pd-345 (North American Refractories) in the documents, in each document's own words.

North American Refractories Company's Responses to Interrogatories and Requests for Production in Bexar County (1994)

  • Asbestos content: “1%” (at Womelsdorf), p. 361
  • Made at: “Womelsdorf”, p. 361
  • Asbestos fiber: “chrysotile asbestos”, p. 361
  • Form: “gunning mixes or castables”, p. 361

North American Refractories Company's Answers to Plaintiffs' Request for Production in Kanawha County (1995)

  • Use: “BOF backup linings; linings in pulverized coal fired boilers”, p. 92
  • Temperature limit: “3300°F”, p. 102
  • Description: “magnesite gunning mix, dry phosphate bonded”, p. 92
  • Temperature limit: “3300° F”, p. 122
  • Use: “boiler hearths”, p. 132
  • Description: “magnesite base gun mix containing a dry phosphate binder”, p. 122

North American Refractories Company's Supplemental Rule 220 Compliance in Bank of Alton v. A. P. Green Refractories, with R&D Reports on Eliminating Asbestos (1989)

  • Change: “attapulgite clay substituted for asbestos (work-order trial)”, p. 303
  • Change: “attapulgite clay substituted for asbestos; new mix sheets to be issued”, p. 333
  • Change: “gunned cold with several binders; no acceptable alternative to asbestos found”, p. 173
  • Ingredient: “asbestos”, p. 243
  • Ingredient: “asbestos”, p. 283
  • Ingredient: “attapulgite 1.5 to 2.0%, one and one-half times the asbestos amount”, p. 303
  • Made at: “Womelsdorf (work-order trial batches)”, p. 303

Kind of product

We list Narcogun Pd-345 (North American Refractories) with refractories, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Boilermakers, Refractory Bricklayers.

References

  1. North American Refractories Company's Responses to Interrogatories and Requests for Production in Bexar County (October 25, 1994), p. 36.
  2. North American Refractories Company's Answers to Plaintiffs' Request for Production in Kanawha County (June 1, 1981), pp. 9–10, 12.
  3. North American Refractories Company's Supplemental Rule 220 Compliance in Bank of Alton v. A. P. Green Refractories, with R&D Reports on Eliminating Asbestos (September 28, 1976), p. 30.

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