Theodore F. Hatch to W. G. Hazard Returning the Saranac Report on Kaylo (1949)

A one-page letter of March 21, 1949, from Theodore F. Hatch, research director (of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation), to W. G. Hazard of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, enclosing "the Saranac report which I read with interest." Hatch wrote that "there would be no point in having us 'check' their findings," but that "a comparative study of the test dust and plant dust would be helpful and instructive."

What it shows

The report Hatch returned was the Saranac Laboratory's work on Kaylo, which had found that Kaylo dust produced asbestosis in animals. Hatch's suggestion, to compare the dust used in the animal tests with the dust in the plant, is the study Owens-Illinois later asked the foundation to make (Hazard's letter of November 10, 1949).

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Theodore F. Hatch (Research Director) letter to W. G. Hazard, 3/21/49, enclosing a copy of the Saranac Report on Kaylo and stating that "there would be no point in having us 'check' their findings"; however, "a comparative study of the test dust and plant dust could be helpful and instructive."

Related documents

• W. G. Hazard of Owens-Illinois to the Industrial Hygiene Foundation on Studying Kaylo Dust (1948)
• W. G. Hazard to J. F. McMahon Sending Kaylo Boxcar Dust for Analysis (1949)

About this copy

This is document 508 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-001900 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001900.