Documents in our library describe Dura Shake (GAF) as “asbestos-cement siding”.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Dura Shake (GAF) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “asbestos-cement siding” (as of 1969, 1976), p. 731
Kind of product
We list Dura Shake (GAF) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by GAF (19)
Watcocell · Imperial · Air Cell · Color-tex · Panelstone · Sponge Felt · Eternit · Stratalite · American Thatch · Clipfast · Dura-Color · Duracolor · Duroc · Dutch Lap · Eternit Stonewall · Panelbestos · Stoneglow · Stonewall Board · Vanguard
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (364)
Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Ct (Plus Other Notations) (Certain-Teed Products) · Dekeran (Johns-Manville) · Deluxe Stonewall (Ruberoid) · Detroc Board (M. H. Detrick) · Don'T Monkey With Cheap Roofs (Lone Star Roofing) · Du Shield (Flintkote) · Dualay (Keasbey & Mattison) · Duraform (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Duralite (Asbestos Corp. of America) · Ebonized Asbestos (Ambler Asbestos) · Ebonized Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Economy 250 (National Gypsum) · Equality (Johns-Manville) · Eternit (Ruberoid) · Eternit Asbestos Shingles (American Insulation Co.) · and 344 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
See also
- GAF: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- GAF on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 73. Not yet published in our library.
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