Event

Poisonings at du Pont’s tetraethyl lead plant at Deepwater, 1923-1924

Workers at du Pont’s plant at Deepwater, New Jersey, were poisoned and some died.

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E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company its general manager said “We had fatalities” Primary record 1
U.S. Public Health Service its own bulletin lists Deepwater first Primary record 2

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1923 – Jul 1924 Poisonings at du Pont’s tetraethyl lead plant at Deepwater, 1923-1924

Proof 2 sources

Proceedings of a Conference to Determine Whether or Not There Is a Public Health Question in the Manufacture, Distribution, or Use of Tetraethyl Lead Gasoline (Public Health Bulletin No. 158), U.S. Public Health Service, Treasury Department, 1925. Primary record
We had fatalities. The last we had in the manufacture of tetraethyl lead by the ethyl-bromide process was in July, 1924.
The Use of Tetraethyl Lead Gasoline in Its Relation to Public Health (Public Health Bulletin No. 163), U.S. Public Health Service, Treasury Department, 1926. Primary record
fatal poisoning occurred in the manufacture and mixing of the concentrated tetraethyl lead itself in Deepwater, N. J., Dayton, Ohio, and Bayway, N. J.
these fears were intensified when fatal poisoning occurred in the manufacture and mixing of the concentrated tetraethyl lead itself in Deepwater, N. J., Dayton, Ohio, and Bayway, N. J.

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