Documents in our library describe Asbestite (Burndy) as “insulation”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Asbestite (Burndy) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981
- Form: “INSULATION”, p. 171
Asbestos Magazine, 1940, February 1940
- Description: “For connector fuse protective coverings and electrical connectors.”, said by Burndy Engineering Company, Inc., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 332
- Description: “connector fuse protective coverings and electrical connectors”, said by Burndy Engineering Company, Inc., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), "Trade Marks" column, p. 332
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “asbestos insulation”, p. 563
Kind of product
We list Asbestite (Burndy) with asbestos-reinforced plastics, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Electricians and Electrical Workers.
Asbestos-reinforced plastics by other makers (40)
Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Thermomat (Johns-Manville) · Thermasil (Keene) · Durestos (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Caposite (Cape Asbestos Co. of London) · Surco (Surface Coatings) · Temp-Tite (Johns-Manville) · Thermomat Style 383 (Johns-Manville) · Vee-Square (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Weldwood (U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers) · Yankee (Beacon Sales Company) · Aboglas (Navtar) · Asbestohm (Dossert) · Bakelite (Union Carbide) · Celoron (Continental Diamond Fibre) · Chemtite (Johns-Manville) · Copalam (Cottrel Paper Co. Inc. (Fall River, MA)) · Diall 51-01 (Cannon Electric) · Dilecto (Continental Diamond Fibre) · Dura-Color (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · and 20 more: all asbestos-reinforced plastics
References
- Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981 (July 1, 1981), p. 17.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1940, February 1940 (February 1, 1940), p. 33.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 56. Not yet published in our library.
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