Travelers Asbestos Seminar Booklet (1980): J.P. Stevens Product Information

Travelers' data sheet for J.P. Stevens of New York, with an Exhibit A internal company memo of October 10, 1978, listing the Long Beach Naval Shipyard contracts it could locate from March 1971 to May 1976 by fabric style, contract number and quantity; the memo does not say which styles contained asbestos. The sheet records J.P. Stevens' claim that it never made an asbestos fabric suitable for marine insulation; its asbestos fabrics, made at Slater and Greenville, South Carolina, from 1957 to 1973 with 40–55% asbestos, carried style numbers rather than trade names and were used mainly for firefighting garments, electrical substrates and ironing board covers. It gives May 5, 1969, a Navy document addressed to Owens-Corning Fiberglas, as first knowledge of hazards, says the products were never labeled, and puts total sales from 1957 to March 1973 at $316,240.