Sumner Simpson to E. H. Jeffords on Being Below Any Possibility of Asbestosis (1937)

A one-page file copy of a letter of November 19, 1937, from Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to E. H. Jeffords, general manager of the General Asbestos & Rubber Division at North Charleston, South Carolina ("My dear 'Jeff'"), acknowledging the South Carolina State Board of Health's report. "You have made great advances in the dust control and from the reports, we should not have any additional trouble because we are way below any possibility of asbestosis or any other asbestos disease," Simpson wrote. He asked for the report on the card room, supposing the state engineer had made a count there too.

What it shows

The letter records the conclusion the company's president drew from the government dust studies at North Charleston: that the plant's dust levels put its workers beyond the risk of asbestosis, and that the company should have no "additional trouble." It answers Jeffords's letter of November 12. Jeffords replied on November 22 that the new study had not covered the card room.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Acknowledges receipt of letter which enclosed the report on dust control at Charleston. Requests copy of report on card room if a dust count was taken in the card room.

Related documents

• E. H. Jeffords to Sumner Simpson on the State Health Board's Second Dust Study at North Charleston (1937)
• E. H. Jeffords to Sumner Simpson on the Card Room Dust Report (1937)

About this copy

This is document 03382 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.