Documents in our library describe Equality (Johns-Manville) as “sheet/block”.1 They give it as made 1908.1 The asbestos named is chrysotile.
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What each document says
Every statement about Equality (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: 1908”, p. 1101
- Form: “Sheet/Block”, p. 1101
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1101
- Description: “A material consisting of 50% carbonate of magnesia combined with asbestos and other fire-proof materials”, p. 701
- Form: “listed under SHEETS AND BLOCKS and SECTIONAL PIPE INSULATION”, p. 731
- Use: “especially manufactured to meet government specifications”, p. 701
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1908 - 1911”, p. 1101
- Asbestos fiber: “Unknown (Probably Chrysotile)”, p. 1101
Kind of product
We list Equality (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation and asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe its form. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers, Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Johns-Manville (60)
Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestocel · 85 Magnesia · Thermobestos pipe covering · Asbestos Moulded Sectional Covering · Asbestos Sectional Covering · Asbestos Sponge (Felted, Sectional, Molded) · Celite · Champion Sectional Covering · Cobra · Colorthin · Eureka Covering · Express Covering · Fibrocel · Fine Corrugated Asbestocel · Fire Felt · Firetard · High Temperature Insulation · Indented · and 40 more on the company's page
Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (216)
Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Kaylo (Owens-Illinois) · Unibestos (Pittsburg Corning) · Durant (Keene/Ehret) · Durestos (maker not given) · Durocell (Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing Co.) · Enduro (Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing Co.) · Enduro (Keene) · Enduro Block (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Epitherm 1200 (Eagle-Picher) · Excel (Philip Carey) · Featherweight (Keasbey & Mattison) · FI Cement (Fibreboard) · Fibrous Adhesive (General Refractories) · Finecell (Atlas Turner) · Fireguard Jacketing (Philip Carey) · Flexible Trainline (CertainTeed) · Flexible Trainline Pipe (CertainTeed) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Colorceran · Colorchip · Colorlith · Colorlith Chalkboard · Colorsil · Corspan · Dekeran · Face Span · Facespan · Fine Corrugated Asbestocel · Fire Felt · Flat Transite · Flexite · Heat Treated Molted Metal Marinite · Homestead · 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) · Duraform (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Duralite (Asbestos Corp. of America) · Duroc (GAF) · Dutch Lap (GAF) · Ebonized Asbestos (Ambler Asbestos) · Ebonized Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Economy 250 (National Gypsum) · Eternit (GAF) · Eternit (Ruberoid) · Eternit Asbestos Shingles (American Insulation Co.) · Eternit Stonewall (GAF) · Eternit Stonewall Siding (Eternit, Inc.) · Facad (United States Plywood) · Facade (Cape Universal Bldg. Products of Cape Asbestos Group) · Ferobestos (J. W. Roberts Ltd (Turner & Newall)) · and 244 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
See also
- 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. 110.
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