The Situation as It Was

The plant employs more than 3,000 employees and is the second largest employer in the area. It has miles of paved access roads and bicycles contractors and heavy hot-metal haulage trucks all share these roads. It also has a massive on-site hospital and three power stations. 

The entire plant had only two full-time safety coordinators, and there were some part-time safety coordinators decentralized in the smelter and power stations. 

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Campbell then sought to call hearings so that the tolerances, if too high, would at least be enforceable. The Industrial Hygiene Division delayed another year until its report was deemed ready for publication. At that point the growers and shippers, happy with the situation as it was, took up delaying tactics. Delay in wartime was easy to obtain, and enforceable tolerances for arsenic and lead were not set until 1950. By that time, it made little difference arsenical pesticides had been eclipsed in importance by new synthetic compounds.14... 

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