Asbestos Textile Institute Dust Control Committee Minutes on Dr. Vestal's Plan (1946)

Three pages of minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's Dust Control Committee, meeting at the Engineers Club in Philadelphia on September 5, 1946, signed by Harris D. McKinney, the Institute's manager. Present were B. W. Luttenberger of Raybestos-Manhattan, T. S. Sadler of Carolina Asbestos Co., B. F. Stanton of Johns-Manville (acting chairman) and McKinney. Stanton said J-M had "extensive medical and industrial hygiene departments" and did not need a program like Dr. Vestal's, but would share information with other members; the committee tabled the Vestal plan until it had heard from state health departments, Mellon Institute and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

What it shows

The Institute's board had sent Dr. Vestal's plan for an industry health program to this committee in June (minutes of June 19, 1946). Luttenberger described Raybestos-Manhattan's industrial hygiene work and urged the committee to work from the "preventative" angle, eliminating dust at its source, and to share ways of doing it among member companies. Members divided up contacts with the health departments of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and North Carolina, Mellon Institute and Metropolitan Life, for a report to the October 3 general meeting. Stanton also reported on respirator tests and agreed to circulate an outline of J-M's industrial hygiene program, and a Raybestos-Manhattan suggestion to rename the group the "Air Hygiene Committee" went to the board.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows:

"Minutes of the Meeting of the Dust Control Committee held on 9/5/46." In attendance at the meeting were Luttenberger (RM), Sadley (Carolina Asbestos Co.), Stanton (J-M), and McKinney (ATI). RM's and J-M's industrial hygiene programs were discussed. It was agreed the two companies would share such information with other members of the Institute as would be helpful in planning or expanding health programs.

About this copy

This is document 05631-05633 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.