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Fireite (Johns-Manville)

Fireite Asbestos Furnace Cement was a Johns-Manville cement for sealing the joints of home heating equipment.1,2 In sworn answers in two lawsuits against Fibreboard and others, the Borel and Potter cases, J-M described it in 1969 and 1970 as "an Asbestos compound used for sealing joints of domestic heating equipment."1,2

An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, lists Fireite as a cement made by Johns-Manville from 1954 to 1973.3

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What each document says

Every statement about Fireite (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.

The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories with exhibits

  • Asbestos content: “An Asbestos compound”, p. 241
  • Use: “used for sealing joints of domestic heating equipment”, p. 241
  • Description: “FIREITE ASBESTOS FURNACE CEMENT. (Asbestos Cement) An Asbestos compound used for sealing joints of domestic heating equipment.”, p. 241

The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiff's interrogatories with exhibits

  • Use: “sealing joints of domestic heating equipment”, p. 242
  • Description: “(Asbestos Cement) An Asbestos compound used for sealing joints of domestic heating equipment”, p. 242

The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)

  • Made from: “54”, p. 53
  • Form: “CEMENT”, p. 53
  • Made until: “73”, p. 53

Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)

  • Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1924”, p. 1114
  • Asbestos content: “1.8 - 3.7 % fiber by weight”, p. 1114
  • Description: “An asbestos compound for mounting, sealing, and repairing joints in stoves, boilers, furnaces, heaters, and ranges”, p. 824
  • Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1973”, p. 1114
  • Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1114
  • Form: “Cement”, p. 1114
  • Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1114

Celanese Memo Forwarding NIOSH's List of Trade-Name Products Containing Regulated Carcinogens (1977)

  • Asbestos content: “Fireite Asbestos Furnacecement | Asbestos | 02 | 0462685” (as of 1972-74), said by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, as recorded by Celanese Chemical Company (C. D. Barrett memo CDB-70-77), p. 55

Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)

  • Made at: “Zelienople Plant (1943 to 1973): Fireite Furnace Cement” (at Zelienople) (the plant: Zelienople, Pennsylvania), p. 286
  • Made at: “Waukegan Plant (1922 to 1985): Fireite Furnace Cement” (at Waukegan) (the plant: Waukegan, Illinois), p. 276
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 276

Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for FIREITE Furnace Cement

  • Ingredient: “Sodium Silicate 25”, p. 17
  • Ingredient: “Silica Sand 50”, p. 17
  • Asbestos content: “2”, p. 17

Kind of product

We list Fireite (Johns-Manville) with insulating cement and coatings, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Boilermakers.

Other insulating cement and coatings by Johns-Manville (51)

Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestile · 85 Magnesia · 302 · 678 Semi-Refractory Cement · 85% Magnesia Cement · Asbestoment · Asbestos Fire Felt · Fibrofil · Fibrous Adhesive · Fil-insul · Firetite Furnace Cement · Heat Treating Cement · Insulkote ET · Insulkote ST · Johns-Manville Jm · Laptite · Laptite Cement · Mx-3808 Asb Filler · and 31 more on the company's page

Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (273)

Prasco (Fibreboard) · Calsilite (GAF) · Caltemp (Fibreboard) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Super 66 (Eagle-Picher) · Fibrekote (Keene/Ehret) · Fibrous Adhesive (Celotex) · Fibrous Adhesive (Keasbey & Mattison) · Fibrous Adhesive (M. H. Detrick) · Fibrous Adhesive (Pabco) · Fibrous Adhesive (Philip Carey) · Fibrous Adhesive (Ruberoid) · Fireproofing (Eagle-Picher) · Fitch (Fitch Recuperator) · Flexigum Roof (Celotex) · Forty-eight & Eight (Forty-Eight Insulations) · Fr-100 (Flintkote) · Fr-200 (Flintkote) · Fr-300 (Flintkote) · Fuller Lagging (H. P. Fuller) · and 253 more: all insulating cement and coatings

See also

References

  1. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories with exhibits (March 27, 1970), p. 24.
  2. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiff's interrogatories with exhibits (December 29, 1969), p. 24.
  3. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 5.
  4. Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 111.
  5. Celanese Memo Forwarding NIOSH's List of Trade-Name Products Containing Regulated Carcinogens (August 26, 1977), p. 5.
  6. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 28.
  7. Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for FIREITE Furnace Cement, p. 1.

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