Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on Fiber Standards and Autopsies (1954)

Two pages of minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's Air Hygiene Committee meeting of June 9, 1954, signed by H. M. Jackson of Johns-Manville. The committee reported that New Jersey had not adopted a fiber limit for asbestos, mainly because the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists still set limits in terms of dust rather than fiber, which "points up the need for further information and valid records pertaining to the incidence and exposures involved in asbestosis." The minutes record: "It was urged that autopsies be obtained in as many instances as possible," with study by the Saranac Laboratory to be reviewed with the doctors at the next meeting.

What it shows

The committee also outlined the information it would offer industrial hygiene and health people who asked about asbestos (differences from silicosis, a bibliography, medical and engineering control, surveys), for review by the Institute's Board of Governors. It agreed to invite Dr. P. A. Theodos to present his work on the heart and asbestosis to the company doctors.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

ATI Meeting Minutes, 6/9/54 - Air Hygiene Committee. Discussion of fiber standards and the need for autopsy information.

About this copy

This is document 39 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-000523 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000524.