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85 Magnesia (Philip Carey)

85 Magnesia was Philip Carey's 85% magnesia pipe covering and block insulation, made at Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania.1,2 In sworn answers given in two lawsuits, in 1969 and 1970, the Philip Carey Corporation listed it as made from 1906 to 1961 of basic magnesium carbonate and asbestos fiber.1,2 Elsewhere in the same answers, and again in July 1970, the company said: "We discontinued the manufacture of 85% magnesia approximately ten years ago."1,2,3 It added that the cartons its 85% magnesia products were shipped in would distinguish them from like products made at that time by Fibreboard Paper Products Corporation, John-Manville Products Corporation (as the answers print it), The Ruberoid Company, Baldwin-Ehret Hill, Inc. and Mundet Cork Corporation.3

A 1990 EPA notice that published what the Celotex Corporation reported, naming Philip Carey as its predecessor, lists 85% Magnesia among its pipe covering and block products, produced from 1906 to 1961, and says it was 85% magnesia and 11 to 15% asbestos (filter molded).4 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, lists 85 Magnesia under Philip Carey as pipe covering, block and cement, with 15 in the column read as percent asbestos and no years; it marks the name as a generic term, used by several makers.5

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Asbestos claims

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What each document says

Every statement about 85 Magnesia (Philip Carey) in the documents, in each document's own words.

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

  • Made until: “1906-1961”, p. 11
  • Made from: “1906-1961”, p. 11
  • Made until: “discontinued approximately ten years ago”, p. 151
  • Made at: “Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania” (the plant: Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania), p. 11
  • Ingredient: “Basic magnesium Carbonate and asbestos fiber”, p. 11

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

  • Made from: “1906-1961” (at Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania), p. 12
  • Made until: “discontinued the manufacture of 85% magnesia approximately ten years ago”, p. 152
  • Made until: “1906-1961” (at Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania), p. 12
  • Asbestos content: “Basic magnesium Carbonate and Asbestos fiber”, p. 12
  • Made at: “Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania” (the plant: Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania), p. 12

The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Supplemental answers to interrogatories

  • Made until: “discontinued the manufacture of 85% magnesia approximately ten years ago”, p. 93
  • Description: “shipped in cartons that distinguished it from like products of other makers”, p. 93

Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (1990)

  • Made from: “produced 1906 to 1961”, said by The Celotex Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 54
  • Made until: “produced 1906 to 1961”, said by The Celotex Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 54
  • Asbestos content: “11 to 15% asbestos (filter molded)”, said by The Celotex Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 54
  • Ingredient: “85% magnesia”, said by The Celotex Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 54
  • Form: “pipe covering and block products”, said by The Celotex Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 54

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

  • Asbestos content: “15”, p. 105
  • Form: “PIPECOVER,BLOCK,CEMENT”, p. 105
  • Description: “GENERIC TERM”, p. 105
  • Description: “15% asbestos fiber” (as of 1934), p. 1286

Kind of product

We list 85 Magnesia (Philip Carey) with pipe covering and block insulation and insulating cement and coatings, 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, Boilermakers.

Other pipe covering and block insulation by Philip Carey (26)

Careytemp · Careycel · 19 Hitemp · Aircel · Excel · Lennolite · Multi-Ply · Precision-molded · Super-light · Super-Light 85% Magnesia · Temp-check · Tempcheck · Alltemp · Asbestos Paper · Asbestos Sponge · Carey Cal-silicate · Careytemp 2000 · Carocel · Defendex · Dual Careytemp · and 6 more on the company's page

Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (250)

Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Asbestocel (Johns-Manville) · 66 (Eagle-Picher) · 7M (Crown Cork & Seal) · 85 Magnesia (Crown Cork & Seal) · 85 Magnesia (Fibreboard) · 85 Magnesia (Gaf/Ruberoid) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Keasbey & Mattison) · 85% Magnesia (Armstrong Cork) · 85% Magnesia (Eagle-Picher) · 85% Magnesia (Pabco Products) · Acoa (Asbestos Corp. of America) · Air Cell (GAF) · Air Cell (Mundet Cork) · Air-Cell (Johns-Manville) · Aircel (Nicolet) · and 230 more: all pipe covering and block insulation

Other insulating cement and coatings by Philip Carey (26)

100 · 707 · 19 Vitircel · 303 · 7M · Super-light · Super-Light Cement · Tempcheck · Vitricel · Vitricel 10 · 303 Asbestos Cement · 707 Insulating Cement · A-1 · A101 · Alumino-Hi-Temp · Btu · Btu Cement · Careytemp 2000 · Careytemp Asbestos Cement · Fibrous Adhesive · and 6 more on the company's page

Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (298)

Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · 7M Short Fiber (Mundet Cork) · 7M-90 (Celotex) · 81-27 and 81-93 (Benjamin Foster) · 85 Magnesia (Crown Cork & Seal) · 85 Magnesia (Fibreboard) · 85 Magnesia (Gaf/Ruberoid) · 85 Magnesia (Keasbey & Mattison) · 85% Magnesia Cement (Fibreboard) · 85% Magnesia Cement (Johns-Manville) · 90-07 H.I. Mastic (Benjamin Foster) · 99 (Eagle-Picher) · 99 Finishing Cement (Eagle-Picher) · A-1199 (Combustion Engineering) · A.P.Green (A. P. Green Firebrick Co.) · AF (Rock Wool Manufacturing Co.) · and 278 more: all insulating cement and coatings

See also

References

  1. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiff's interrogatories (December 23, 1969), pp. 1, 15.
  2. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories (April 2, 1970), pp. 1, 15.
  3. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Supplemental answers to interrogatories (July 7, 1970), p. 9.
  4. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 5.
  5. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 10.
  6. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 128. Not yet published in our library.

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