E. H. Montague v. Johns-Manville, California Industrial Accident Commission Award (1950)

Four pages from the workers' compensation claim of E. H. Montague (Claim No. 123-248) against Johns-Manville and its insurers, Employers Liability Assurance Corporation and Industrial Indemnity Exchange, before California's Industrial Accident Commission. A notice set a further hearing at City Hall, Chico, for May 10, 1950. In Findings and Award dated August 30, 1950, the referee found that Montague, working as a "super-x mixer" at J-M's Redwood City plant between 1936 and 1946, "was exposed to various dusts, resulting in pneumonoconiosis," an injury arising out of his employment.

What it shows

The referee found that the injury caused temporary total disability from October 1, 1949, through May 10, 1950, and continuing, and awarded Montague $30.00 a week, his medical expenses and further medical care, less a $150 attorney's fee. The insurers withdrew a statute of limitations defense. The award is an example of a J-M plant worker's dust disease being found compensable in 1950.

In Johns-Manville's chronology

Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:

E.H. Montague, Redwood City plantworker, files worker's compensation claim.