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Johns-Manville Manville Plant Health Review Conference Minutes (July 1957)

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Minutes of the July 23, 1957, Health Review Conference at J-M's Manville, New Jersey, plant (15 pages), attended by Dr. Kenneth Smith, J-M's medical director, plant doctors D. T. DuBow and E. D. Merrill, C. L. Sheckler, nurse N. Hahn and secretary A. Getter. As at the June conference, the group went through workers with abnormal chest X-rays, giving each man's years of exposure to asbestos, silica and other dusts, the X-ray reading and a diagnosis, and deciding whether to tab his file, notify the plant manager or move him to a non-dusty area. Discussing one worker with 20 years of exposure, Sheckler asked "Are we facing a liability," and when Smith said no, answered "I would see a nice fee as an attorney."

Author
A. Getter
Published by
Johns-Manville
Series
The Motley 1000
Date
July 23, 1957
Numbers
Bates CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-004219 – 004233; Motley 1000 no. 795
Library no.
ACL Doc 23908 · asbestosclaims.law/library/23908
Rights
Republished under fair use for research and historical study.

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The minutes record the plant doctors weighing possible claims as they classified workers' chest conditions. Smith replied to Sheckler, "I guess my thinking has been tempered." In another case Merrill explained that the group had decided that people with occupational disease or X-ray changes should be counseled at their periodic examinations.

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Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

15-page J-M Manville plant Health Review Conference Minutes, 7/23/57.

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This is document 795 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-004219 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-004233.

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A. Getter. “Johns-Manville Manville Plant Health Review Conference Minutes (July 1957).” July 23, 1957. The Motley 1000, Bates CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-004219 – 004233, Motley 1000 no. 795. Johns-Manville. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 23908. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/23908.

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