R. L. Moore to S. R. Zimmerman Sending J. Wronski's Comments on the Public Health Service Dust Report (1965)

A one-page memo of November 12, 1965, from R. L. Moore to S. R. Zimmerman, Jr., of Raybestos-Manhattan's United States Asbestos Division, sending a memo of the same date from J. Wronski with his comments on the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare dust count report of November 1, 1965, signed by J. R. Lynch. Moore had asked E. C. McFerren to file "this Federal Government Health, Education and Welfare report" in his office "for safe keeping."

What it shows

Wronski's memo itself is not in the scans. Johns-Manville's index describes it: Wronski thought the government had taken many samples in low-dust areas while the company's own tests centered on problem spots, so that the Public Health Service average of 0.27 million particles per cubic foot was much lower than the company's own figure of 1.26 for the same period. The report Wronski reviewed is the one Zimmerman sent on November 3.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

05847. Transmittal memo for memo from J. Wronski containing his comments on the HEW air sample analysis.

05848. It appears that HEW conducted many tests in low dust areas while RM tests centered in on problem spots. Notes that the HEW study determined the overall average of dust concentration to be 0.27 mppcf. This is much lower than RM's counts for the same period of 1.26 mppcf.

Related documents

• S. R. Zimmerman to R. L. Moore Sending the Public Health Service's Manheim Dust Results (1965)

About this copy

These are documents 05847, 05848 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.