Johns-Manville's Lompoc, California, plant stood at 2500 Miguelito Road; in sworn answers in a 1990 lawsuit, the fund that answered lawsuits for Manville Corporation dated it "1928 to 1980s."1 The same answers list the Lompoc plant's products: Diaseal M, Fibra-Flo, Precoat Celite 564, Precoat Sorbo-Cel, Sil-O-Cel Hard Finish Cement and Sil-O-Cel Plastic Insulating Cement.1 The fund describes each of them as "asbestos containing," without giving an amount.1
The answers also name the doctors who served the Lompoc plant, in six entries: J. P. Troux, M.D., "1930 to 1942"; Walter B. Anderson, M.D., "1943 to 1954"; Milton V. Duncan, M.D., "2/54 to 1/31/72"; the Valley Medical Group, "2/1/72 to 1985"; P. G. Lineweaver, M.D., of the Santa Barbara Clinic, "11/76 to 1985"; and Gilbert Anderson, M.D., whose dates are printed as "1/88 to 1985."1
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Asbestos products made here
The products documents say were made at this plant, with the years a document gives for the product here. Each product's page has what the documents say about it, including its asbestos content.
- Diaseal M (Johns-Manville)1
- Fibra-Flo (Johns-Manville)1
- Precoat Celite 564 (Johns-Manville)1
- Precoat Sorbo-Cel (Johns-Manville)1
- Sil-O-Cel Hard Finish Cement (Johns-Manville)1
- Sil-O-Cel Plastic Insulating Cement (Johns-Manville)1
Asbestos claims
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What each document says
Every statement about this plant in the documents, in each document's own words.
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Operated: “2500 Miguelito Road, Lompoc, California (1928 to 1980s)” (Johns-Manville), p. 181
- Dust and health: “Lompoc, CA Plant: 6 physician entries” (Johns-Manville), p. 541
- Products made: “Diaseal M; Fibra-Flo; Precoat Celite 564; Precoat Sorbo-Cel; Sil-O-Cel Hard Finish Cement; Sil-O-Cel Plastic Insulating Cement” (Johns-Manville), p. 211
Other names
Documents call this plant “Lompoc Plant”, “Lompoc, CA Plant”, “Lompoc, California”.
See also
- Johns-Manville: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Asbestos exposure sites in California
References
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), pp. 18, 21, 54.
Mentioned on this site
- A. J. Lanza to McConnell, Brown and Gardner on X-Rays of J-M's Lompoc Diatomaceous Earth Workers (1937)
- A. K. Barnes to Vandiver Brown on Lung X-Ray Procedure and Dust Fears at Lompoc (1944)
- Arthur Elsenbast to O. B. Westmont on Aluminum Therapy Research and Moving Men from Dust at Lompoc (1951)
- Asbestos Timeline
- Asbestos Timeline
- Asbestos Timeline
- Deposition of Dr. Kenneth W. Smith in DeRocco v. Forty-Eight Insulation on Caution Labels for Celite and Insulation (1976)
- Dr. A. J. Lanza, Memorandum on the Control of Pneumoconiosis Due to Diatomaceous Earth (1951)
- Dr. Herbert K. Abrams of the International Chemical Workers Union and Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on Conditions at J-M Plants (1954)
- Dr. Kenneth Smith to J. M. Gadway on a Medical Communications Program at Lompoc (1959)
- Dr. Kenneth Smith to J. M. Gadway on Pulmonary Function Studies at Lompoc (1958)
- Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to O. B. Westmont on the Public Health Service Lung Function Studies at Lompoc (1955)
- Frederick M. Kriete of the California Department of Public Health to Dr. A. J. Lanza Enclosing the Bulletin on Diatomaceous Earth Pneumoconiosis (1952)
- G. G. Schuknecht to C. L. Sheckler on Caution Labels for Celite Products, Not Used on Exports (1967)
- H. L. King Jr. to D. W. Mastin on a Dust Training Program for Lompoc Workers (1952)
- H. M. Jackson to O. B. Westmont on the Lompoc Housekeeping Procedures Manual (1953)
- J. P. Woodard's Minutes of a Meeting with California Health Officials and the U.S. Public Health Service on Studying Diatomaceous Earth (1952)
- J. P. Woodard to A. S. Elsenbast on the Saranac Program and Aluminum Therapy at Lompoc (1951)
- Johns-Manville, Dust Abatement
- Johns-Manville Board of Directors Minutes on the Celite Dust Abatement Program at Lompoc (1953)
- Johns-Manville Environmental Health Task Force Policy Committee Minutes, August 1969 (1969)
- Johns-Manville Manual Sheets on Diatomaceous Earth as a Potential Health Hazard (1960)
- Lois Gaul's Manville Memo on the Bulletin of Hygiene (1985)
- Lompoc Plant List of Improvements to Reduce Dust, 1930 to 1944 (1945)
- M. F. Naylor to J. P. Woodard on X-Ray Follow-Up of 84 Manville Industrial Hygiene Cases (1950)
- Memo to File on Harter v. Johns-Manville and a Visit to the Lompoc Plant (1979)
- Minutes of a J-M Headquarters Meeting with Dr. Lanza on Gardner's Unfinished Saranac Experiments (1947)
- O. B. Westmont to A. S. Elsenbast on the Public Health Service and California Dust Survey at Lompoc (1953)
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- S. A. Williams Memo on Dust Collecting Equipment at J-M Plants (1933)
- The Johns-Manville Knowledge Chronology
- Vandiver Brown to A. Cromwell at Lompoc on Occupational Disease Legislation (1935)
- Vandiver Brown to Ernest Muehleck of Keasbey & Mattison on Gardner's Delayed Asbestosis Monograph (1944)
- W. Clark Cooper and Lewis J. Cralley, Pneumoconiosis in Diatomite Mining and Processing (1958)
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