"Arc Flash" Conjunctivitis

When the current war came to Portland, Oregon, early in 1941, it brought with it a host of problems new to the medical profession of this community. The establishment of three major Kaiser shipyards and several other smaller Navy contract shipyards in the heart of the lumbering area could not do otherwise. Prior to 1941 the chief industries in Oregon and southern Washington were lumbering, fishing and agriculture, and their importance has continued. At the same time in the past twenty-one months approximately 85,000 men and 25,000 women have left their regular pursuits and turned to employment in steel shipbuilding. It is safe to say that 80 to 90 per cent of this group are now occupied in work foreign to their previous employment in type, strenuousness, speed, hours and location. Steel shipbuilding now ranks ahead of all other industries in this area, and the problems which it introduces in