Aetna Life Affiliated Companies, Dust Survey of Owens-Illinois's Kaylo Plant at Berlin, New Jersey (1958)

A seven-page "Special Hazards Survey" made for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company's Kaylo Division at Berlin, New Jersey, by the engineering department of Aetna Life Affiliated Companies, the plant's insurer, from visits on April 28 and May 2, 1958. Its purpose was "to determine the employee exposure to dust in production operations." Of 12 air samples, the highest was 91.6 million particles per cubic foot at a splitting saw, which the survey called "a dangerously high count"; several others were above or near the limit of 10 million that it applied to this kind of dust. It noted men working without respirators and recommended a better respirator program, exhaust systems and vacuum cleaning in place of sweeping.

What it shows

The survey shows an insurance carrier measuring asbestos dust at a Kaylo insulation plant and advising its customer on controls. It recorded that bagged asbestos stored outdoors was wet from rain, which kept dust down at the mixers, and suggested wetting all bagged asbestos before opening. The index marks it as one of its documents on what insurance carriers knew.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

Dust survey prepared for OIG, Kaylo Division, Berlin, New Jersey, by Aetna Life Affiliated Companies, 4/28/58 and 5/02/58. The stated purpose of this study is to determine the employee exposure to dust in production operations. Attached is a list of recommendations which Aetna feels would improve conditions at the plant and decrease the occupational disease exposure.

About this copy

This is document 369 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001779 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001785.