Documents in our library describe Train Pipe Covering (Johns-Manville) as “johns-manville asbesto-sponge felted train pipe insulation”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Asbestos claims
If you or a family member worked with or around Train Pipe Covering (Johns-Manville) and later developed mesothelioma or another asbestos disease, a claim may be paid by the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust. Free case review.
What each document says
Every statement about Train Pipe Covering (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Johns-Manville Service to Railroads (1923)
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “railroad train steam pipe insulation”, p. 1192
Kind of product
We list Train Pipe Covering (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Johns-Manville (60)
Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestocel · 85 Magnesia · Thermobestos pipe covering · Superex 2000 · Superex-1900 · Superex-m · Superex-sg · Therm-o-bestos · Thermo Fire Felt · Thermowrap · Vitribestos · Vitro Fire Felt · White Surface Asbestos Jacket · Zerogloss · Air-Cell · Anti-sweat · Asbesto-metallic · Asbesto-sponge · 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) · Therm-O-Flake (Illinois Clay Products) · Thermalite (Keene) · Thermalite 85% Magnesia (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Thermalite 85% Magnesia (Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing Co.) · Thermasil (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Thermasil (Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing Co.) · Thermasil (Keene) · Tri-calite (Crown Cork & Seal) · Trica-mag (Crown Cork & Seal) · Tricalite (Mundet Cork) · Type 19 (Crown Cork & Seal) · Type 19 Block (Mundet Cork) · Type M (Crown Cork & Seal) · Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Unibestos (Pittsburgh Corning) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
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
- Johns-Manville Service to Railroads (January 1, 1923), p. 13.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 119. Not yet published in our library.
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