Asbestos Textile Institute General Meeting Minutes, December 10, 1953, with Attached Air Hygiene Committee Minutes and Reports (1953)

Minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute general meeting held December 10, 1953 at Hotel Warwick, Philadelphia. They cover the 1954 budget ($8,395 General Fund, $12,000 Fellowship Fund), an FTC antitrust briefing, and committee reports. Attached are the Air Hygiene Committee minutes of 12/9/53 with an asbestosis incidence survey of member plants, a recommendation to study eliminating dry weaving, member reports on dust collection equipment, and a French factory physician's report on asbestosis.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-3: Minutes of the ATI General Meeting, December 10, 1953, Hotel Warwick, Philadelphia: attendance, budget, FTC briefing, committee reports
• Pages 4-6: Minutes of the Air Hygiene Committee meeting of 12/9/53, with dry weaving recommendation and spring 1954 agenda
• Pages 7-9: Asbestosis Incidence Study, December 8, 1953: anonymized case counts from five member companies and a French plant, with summary
• Pages 10-12: Survey of dust collection equipment, Asten-Hill Mfg. Co. (John McCormack)
• Pages 13-16: Johns-Manville's experience with dust collection equipment in the asbestos textile industry (Benj. F. Stanton)
• Pages 17-19: Dust collecting experience of General Asbestos & Rubber Division of Raybestos-Manhattan (Ralph B. Smith)
• Pages 20-22: Report of a French factory physician (J. Tesniere, S.A. Francaise du Ferodo) on x-ray findings of asbestosis in 88 workers, dated February 13, 1952

People and organizations

From D. A. Holmes (Asten-Hill Mfg. Co., Acting Chairman of Air Hygiene Committee); John McCormack (Plant Engineer, Asten-Hill Mfg. Co.); Benj. F. Stanton (Supt. of Safety, Johns-Manville Corp., Manville, N.J.); Ralph B. Smith (General Asbestos & Rubber Division of Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.); J. Tesniere (S.A. Francaise du Ferodo, Paris (factory physician report)).

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos Textiles: Cloth, Garments, Gloves, and Blankets · Dust Control · Johns-Manville · New Jersey Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · North Carolina Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Raybestos-Manhattan · South Carolina Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · What is asbestosis.

About this copy

This is document ATI-12 of the Asbestos Textile Institute documents, produced in asbestos litigation, 22 pages. Production numbers ATI-000012_0001 to ATI-000012_0022.