B. W. Luttenberger to J. F. D. Rohrbach on the Asbestos Textile Institute's Air Hygiene Committee (1954)

A one-page letter of May 14, 1954, from B. W. Luttenberger, works manager, to J. F. D. Rohrbach, president of Raybestos-Manhattan. Luttenberger explained that he had served for years on the Asbestos Textile Institute's Air Hygiene Committee, now chaired by Hugh Jackson, who "has charge of Johns-Manville's Industrial Health Program." The year before, a project "related to the dissemination of the percentage of the incidence of Asbestosis in the various Asbestos Industries" that belonged to the Institute had come up, and "We did not participate in this survey," for reasons given in correspondence he enclosed. He wanted Rohrbach's comments before the committee's next meeting in Philadelphia on June 9, 1954.

What it shows

The letter records that Raybestos-Manhattan, with the approval of O. H. Cilley, stayed out of an Institute survey that would have published the rates of asbestosis among member companies. The enclosed correspondence giving the reasons is not in this file. The day before, Luttenberger had told Jackson that medical information should be released only through a medical group (letter of May 13, 1954).

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Informs that he has been a member of the Air Hygiene Committee of the Asbestos Textile Institute for years, and that H. Jackson, of J-M, has been the chairman. Reports that last year "we" did not participate in a project which released the percentages of incidence of asbestosis among various industries who are members of the A.T.I. Letter encloses correspondence relating to this project (no attachments).

Related documents

• B. W. Luttenberger of Raybestos-Manhattan to H. M. Jackson on What Industrial Hygiene Information to Release (1954)

About this copy

This is document 05797 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.