Owens Corning's Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in Greco v. A-Best Products (1997)

Owens Corning's responses to the Baron & Budd master interrogatories in Greco v. A-Best Products, Court of Common Pleas, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, served on September 13, 1997 and verified by Senior Counsel Robert C. Mitchell. The answers cover Kaylo pipe and block insulation, which Owens Corning sold for Owens-Illinois from April 1953 and made itself after buying the Berlin, New Jersey plant in 1958, and the Eagle-Picher cements it sold under its own name. Owens Corning gives Kaylo 10, 20 and 17 as about 15%, 22% and 13% asbestos.

What it shows

Owens Corning says some of its employees knew of the Dreessen and Lanza reports in the early 1940s (No. 25), and that in 1956 it asked Owens-Illinois about Kaylo's health effects and was told the 1955 Saranac study showed animals "could develop a mild asbestosis reaction" (Nos. 18, 25, 36.2). It dates its first labels to 1964 (the Eagle-Picher cements), a hand-stamped Kaylo label to December 1966 and labeled cartons to February 1967 (No. 47.3). Its answers date the start of its own Kaylo manufacture to both May 1958 (Nos. 3, 5, 12, 25) and November 1958 (No. 23). Compare Owens-Illinois's 1988 answers.

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Exhibits A to VVV are cited but not in the file; only Owens Corning's exhibit list (pp. 100–103) and the plaintiffs' job-site list (pp. 98–99) are.