H. M. Jackson to Dr. T. H. Davison Asking for a Survey of Plant Physical Examination Programs (1970)

A confidential one-page memo of February 18, 1970, from H. M. Jackson at J-M's general headquarters to Dr. T. H. Davison at Waukegan, asking him to survey all plant locations before the Policy Committee's April 13 meeting. The survey was to cover the schedule of examinations and its status, "whether health counseling, particularly in relation to occupational disease status, is presently a part of the examination procedure," and "whether all employees who have medical indication of significant involvement have been so counseled." Jackson enclosed the file of a similar survey made in September 1967; the second page is the survey form as completed for the New York location.

What it shows

Davison sent the form to all industrial relations managers nine days later, and the plants' answers show how unevenly workers with pneumoconiosis had been told of their diagnosis.

In Johns-Manville's chronology

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

Memorandum from Jackson to Dr. Davison dated 2/18/70 requests that Davison survey the locations re plant physical exam program to ascertain whether counseling as to occupational disease status is presently part of the exam procedure, and whether all employees who have medical indication of significant involvement have been so counselled.