Documents in our library describe Asbestos Millboard (Johns-Manville) as “sheet”.1 They give it as made 1871–1910.1 They put its asbestos content at 90%.2 The asbestos named is chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Asbestos Millboard (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1871 - 1875”, p. 1041
- Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1896”, p. 1041
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1041
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1041
- Description: “Made of asbestos fiber and suitable binders ... Made in various degrees of hardness and temperature resisting properties”, p. 741
- Form: “Sheet”, p. 1041
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1910”, p. 1041
- Use: “recommended where relatively thin sheets or boards are required for protection against fire, heat, and acid fumes. Used as a fireproof lining for floors, partitions, ceilings, and elevator shafts. Also used in ranges, stoves, grates, etc.”, p. 741
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1896”, p. 1041
- Form: “Sheet”, p. 1041
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1041
Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for MILLBOARD (1977)
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 253
- Made at: “Pittsburgh Plant (1926 to 1980s): Millboard” (at Pittsburgh) (the plant: Pittsburg, California), p. 253
Kind of product
We list Asbestos Millboard (Johns-Manville) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe its form. 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 Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Asbestoboard · Asbestobord · Asbestocite · Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt · Asbestos Ebony · Asbestos Fire Felt · Asbestos Fire Felt Locomotive Lagging · Asbestos Paper and Rollboard · Asbestos Sheathing · Asbestos Sponge (Felted, Sectional, Molded) · Asbestoside · C Asbestos Millboard · C Millboard · Carinsul · Cedargrain · and 99 more on the company's page
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (264)
Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Unibestos (Pittsburg Corning) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Careycel (Philip Carey) · Asbestone (R. J. Dorn) · Asbestone 400 (Asbestone) · Asbestone 400 (National Gypsum) · Asbestoroc (Keasbey & Mattison) · Asbestos Cement Siding and Roofing Shingles (Flintkote) · Asbestos Millboard (Celotex) · Asbestos Millboard (Gaf/Ruberoid) · Asbestos millboard (Philip Carey) · Asbestos Millboard (Ruberoid) · Asbestos Millboard Mb-1 (Nicolet) · Asbestos Permaboard (National Gypsum) · Asbestos Rollboard (Celotex) · Asbestos Rollboard (Philip Carey) · Asbestos Sponge Felt (Ruberoid) · Asbestos-Bonded (Armco Steel) · and 244 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
See also
- Asbestos Millboard in the Lexicon
- Johns-Manville: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Johns-Manville on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 104.
- Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for MILLBOARD (February 11, 1977), p. 1.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 25.
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