Lake Asbestos Letter to Customers on Its Expanded Bag Warning Label (1977)

A two-page form letter of April 26, 1977, to "Gentlemen" from Edward A. Farrell, director of sales of Lake Asbestos of Quebec, Ltd., a fiber producer with offices in New York. From about June 1, 1977, Lake's asbestos bags would carry a fuller warning: "DANGER CONTAINS ASBESTOS FIBRES AVOID CREATING DUST ASBESTOSIS, LUNG CANCER AND OTHER FATAL DISEASES MAY BE CAUSED BY INHALATION OF ASBESTOS SMOKING GREATLY INCREASES LUNG CANCER RISK." The sides of the bag would give handling instructions, such as wearing approved respirators and vacuuming dust from clothes. Farrell urged customers to make sure their employees, "especially those of your employees who may not come into contact with the new asbestos bags," knew of the warnings, and to pass the information on to their own customers.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

E.A. Farrell (Lake Asbestos) letter to "Gentlemen," 4/26/77. Farrell discusses Lake Asbestos' new expanded warning label which will appear on or about June 1, 1977 on its bags containing asbestos fiber.

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This is document 711 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-002547 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002548.