Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene and Manufacturing Committee Minutes on the Industrial Hygiene Foundation Lung Cancer Study (1958)

Three pages of minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's Air Hygiene and Manufacturing Committee, signed by A. E. May as chairman, with the date only handwritten and hard to read. The committee discussed "An Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer in Asbestos Miners," written by the Industrial Hygiene Foundation and sponsored by the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association, quoting its conclusion that the experience of people exposed to asbestos dust "is not worse with respect to lung cancer than that of the unexposed population." Members also discussed dust control and compensation awards, which they said showed the need for thorough pre-employment and periodic medical examinations.

What it shows

This is the study the Institute's committee had first heard about in 1956 and 1957 (September 1956, September 1957). The committee noted that "All of the known and suspected deaths due to lung cancer were from the group of those that smoked," listed 12 deaths among 5,958 miners by exposure group, and planned to give copies "to their plant physicians and officials." Under compensation cases, the minutes record an asbestosis award to a worker who had not worked in a dusty area for eight years but walked through a fiber room an hour a week, and one company's rule that areas with fiber counts over 1 million particles per cubic foot must be cleaned up.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

ATI Meeting Minutes, illegible date 9/58-? - Air Hygiene Committee. "Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer in Asbestos Miners" by IHF is discussed. Discusses compensation cases and the need for thorough pre-employment and periodic exams.

Related documents

• Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on a Proposed Lung Cancer Study (1956)
• Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene and Manufacturing Committee Minutes on Dust Sampling (1957)

About this copy

This is document 59 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-000587 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000589.