Johns-Manville Manville Plant Health Review Conference Minutes (March and April 1958)

Minutes of two 1958 Health Review Conferences at J-M's Manville, New Jersey, plant (15 pages): eight pages from the meeting of March 5 and seven from a later meeting dated the 9th, apparently in April. Plant doctors D. T. DuBow and E. D. Merrill, Dr. Kenneth Smith, C. L. Sheckler, nurse N. Hahn and secretary A. Getter reviewed workers with abnormal chest X-rays, including cases of asbestosis, pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis, and argued over whether to tell them. In the later meeting Sheckler said "We have not been alerting these people and we should not do this," Merrill asked "If we are not going to tell the man anything, why take an X-ray?" and Smith said periodic examinations were "voluntary."

What it shows

In the March meeting Smith said "We take the X-rays for our own protection, not for social obligation," and of a man with 21 years' exposure to asbestos in Transite pipe, "We will pay, our liability is there." Sheckler remarked, "We can put Transite Pipe out of business from this list alone." The minutes show the plant's doctors knew of many workers with dust disease and debated what they owed them. Earlier conferences are June 1957 and July 1957.

In Johns-Manville's index

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, 3/5/58.

Related documents

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

About this copy

This is document 796 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-004234 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-004248.