Henry B. Moreno of Johns-Manville, Testimony at the Labor Department Hearing on the Asbestos Standard (1972)

The transcript of Henry B. Moreno's statement and questioning on March 16, 1972, at the U.S. Department of Labor's hearing on a permanent asbestos standard (15 pages, with the Labor Department's 1978 certificate that it is a true copy). Moreno, Johns-Manville's senior operating vice president for its Industrial and International Divisions, said the company supported the emergency standard "if they are modified as suggested by Johns-Manville associates here today," and spoke on the engineering problems and costs of dust control. He said that despite some twenty million dollars spent, twenty percent of the company's sampled dust stations still ran over five fibers per cubic centimeter.

What it shows

Under questioning about insulation, Moreno said that for about twenty years almost every high-temperature insulation had amosite in it, and that every ship built during World War II and after had large quantities of it under a Navy specification. "This was done, I think, because no one really realized the dangers involved," he said. At the end of his testimony J-M's F. L. Pundsack told the examiner that this "completes the testimony of those testifying on behalf of Johns-Manville," a group that included Dr. George W. Wright (Motley #310).

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Statement and Examination of Henry Moreno (Senior Operating Vice President, J-M Industrial and International Divisions) at Goldberg Hearings on 3/16/72. Moreno primarily discusses the engineering problems involved in and the economic impact of implementing the proposed two fiber/cc standard.

Related documents

• Dr. George W. Wright, Testimony at the Labor Department Hearing on the Asbestos Standard (1972)
• Fred L. Pundsack's Testimony Against OSHA's Proposed Asbestos Warning Labels, with His Letter to Arthur Goldberg (1972)
• Statements of Clifford Sheckler, Dr. George W. Wright and Henry B. Moreno at the Labor Department Asbestos Hearing (1972)

About this copy

This is document 311 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-001525 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001539.