Chart of Hourly Employees' Diagnosis and Notification Dates by Job (1979)

A two-page handwritten chart headed "Hourly," with 37 entries giving each employee's department number, job title and job number, whether the job was under or over the TLV (threshold limit value), the date diagnosed and the date informed. Diagnoses run from 1958 to April 1979. The chart names no employees and does not say which plant it covers or what the diagnosis was.

What it shows

Most entries show the employee informed within weeks or a few months of diagnosis, but several, mostly from 1958 to 1962, show long gaps: a shipping and receiving truck driver diagnosed September 24, 1958 was informed December 14, 1959; a millwright leader diagnosed August 14, 1962 was informed October 16, 1963; and a finishing operator tender diagnosed April 10, 1962 was informed June 22, 1964. Nearly every job is marked as under the TLV.

In Johns-Manville's chronology

Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:

This is a two-page chart dated 9/27/79 which lists department numbers, job titles, TLV over, TLV under, date diagnosed, date informed, etc. Based on the chart, most diagnoses are reported to the employee within several months. However, there are several instances where the time lag is over a year. Plant location not indicated.