Associated Press, "Disease Found in 25% of Small-Business Workers" (1975)

A poor photocopy of a newspaper clipping of an Associated Press story of April 27, 1975, on a University of Washington study of small businesses. Only part of the text can be read. It listed chronic disease from "fibrous-like" dusts among the illnesses found, and quoted Representative Dominick V. Daniels, Democrat of New Jersey and chairman of the House health and safety subcommittee, calling the results "shocking, revealing a possible horror story of national proportions." The study was made from 1972 to 1974 in Tacoma, Seattle, Portland and Yakima County, Washington.

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

Newspaper article entitled "Disease Found in 25% of Small-Business Workers," April 27, 1975, Washington (Associated Press). It is stated in the article that from 1972 through 1974, the University of Washington conducted a study of 3 industrial areas (Tacoma and Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon) and of an agricultural area in Yakima County, Washington and found that 1 out of every 4 workers in the sample of small businesses employing from 8 to 150 people had an occupationally derived disease. It also found that 89% of these diseases were not reported, as required, to the Labor Department. One of the diseases listed in this study was chronic respiratory disease due to exposure to asbestos and other fibrous like-dust in work areas. The article reports that the Chairman of the House Health & Safety Subcommittee said that the results of the study were "shocking, revealing a possible horror story of national proportions."

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This is document 872 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-004579 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-004579.