Sumner Simpson to A. F. Townsend on the Metropolitan Life Survey of the Passaic Plant (1935)

A one-page letter of January 4, 1935, from Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to A. F. Townsend, the company's chairman, in Passaic, New Jersey, enclosing a copy of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's survey of the Manhattan Rubber Division. "There are several places where the dust count is very bad," Simpson wrote. "I should like to discuss the matter with you after you have looked over the report."

What it shows

Simpson's reading differs from the report's own conclusion, which called the dust counts low except at one operation and dwelt mainly on lead. The letter shows the company's president drawing the chairman's attention to the dust findings and asking to discuss them. Townsend answered the next day that he would review the report carefully.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Transmittal letter for Metropolitan Life's survey of the Manhattan Rubber Division. States that there are several areas where the dust count is very high. Requests meeting to discuss dust counts after survey has been reviewed.

Related documents

• Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, A Study of Dust and Fume Hazards at Raybestos-Manhattan's Passaic Plant (1934)
• A. F. Townsend to Sumner Simpson Acknowledging the Metropolitan Life Survey (1935)
• Dr. W. J. McConnell to Sumner Simpson Sending the Passaic Plant Survey (1935)

About this copy

This is document 02335-02348 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.