Reitze, Nicholson, Holaday and Selikoff, Application of Sprayed Inorganic Fiber Containing Asbestos: Occupational Health Hazards (1972)

A 14-page article from the American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal of March 1972 by William B. Reitze (by then at Johns-Manville), William J. Nicholson, Duncan A. Holaday and Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. It studied the spraying of asbestos-containing fireproofing and insulation in multistory buildings, and found fiber levels from 30 to more than 100 fibers per cubic centimeter at the spraying, with 70 fibers ten feet away and 46 fibers seventy-five feet away, where other trades worked. The authors wrote that construction workmen in buildings where asbestos was sprayed "should be considered to have been subject to asbestos exposure and risk."

What it shows

The copy comes from the library of Johns-Manville's Health, Safety and Environment Department. The article notes that New York City banned the spraying of asbestos from February 25, 1972, and concludes that if controls are not feasible, effective or followed, "banning will be considered." It describes one sprayer who died of asbestosis twenty-nine years after his first exposure.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Article entitled "Application of Sprayed Inorganic Fiber Containing Asbestos: Occupational Health Hazards," authored by W.B. Reitze (J-M), W.J. Nicholson, D.A. Holaday, I.J. Selikoff, published in Am. Ind. Hygiene Assoc. J., 3/72.

About this copy

This is document 11 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-000425 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000438.