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          In 1959, the company offered all
        
        
          employees free immunization against
        
        
          Polio and Tetanus. Dr. R. H. Martin,
        
        
          plant doctor, and nurse Lou Alton
        
        
          posed with “the big needle” for the
        
        
          summer 1959 issue of Illustrated
        
        
          News. The needle was made by
        
        
          employees in the company’s foundry
        
        
          pattern shop and represented the
        
        
          amount of vaccine required to
        
        
          inoculate all of Dofasco.