Documents in our library describe Carey (Philip Carey) as “adhesive”.1 They give it as made 1873–1972.1,2 They put its asbestos content at 85%.1 The list marks “Carey” as a generic term: a name several companies used for this kind of product, not one company's brand.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Carey (Philip Carey) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981
Asbestos Magazine, 1955, April 1955
- Made from: “Since 1873 Carey has been manufacturing products of which asbestos is an integral part.”, p. 112
- Description: “THE CAREY LINE INCLUDES: Asbestos Corrugated Roofing and Siding, Asbestos Fiber and Specialties, Asbestos Flat Sheathing, Asbestos Heat Insulations and Cements, Asbestos Packing, Asbestos Roofing Felts, Asbestos Paper and Millboard, Asbestos Prefabricated Ducts, Asbestos Shingles and Siding, Asbestos Wallboard” (as of 1955), p. 112
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “roofing felts” (as of 1951), p. 653
Kind of product
We list Carey (Philip Carey) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, paper, felt and millboard, cloth, tape and other textiles and gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics, Carpenters and Construction Workers, Roofers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Philip Carey (26)
Careytemp · Careycel · Aircel · Careystone · Thermo-board · Shasta Snow · Tri-Tone · Vitricel · 4.2 Careystone · AC Board · Asbestos millboard · Asbestos Rollboard · Careybesto-Board · Careyflex · Careysote · Careystone Colonial Clapboard Siding · Coverall Board · Fire-chex 325 · Firefoil · Formboard · and 6 more on the company's page
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (357)
Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Asbestocel (Johns-Manville) · Aslac (UBE Ceycon) · Atco (American Tar) · Best-Side (DeWitt Products) · Birdsboard (Mirawal, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical) · Bromley's Honor Pledge (George W. Bromley) · C Asbestos Millboard (Johns-Manville) · C Millboard (Johns-Manville) · Carinsul (Johns-Manville) · Cedargrain (Johns-Manville) · Cemesto (Celotex) · Cemesto Board (Celotex) · Cemesto Structural Insulating Panels (Celotex) · Century (Keasbey & Mattison) · Certa-Seal (CertainTeed) · Chemstone (Johns-Manville) · and 337 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
Other paper, felt and millboard by Philip Carey (31)
Aircel · Excel · Carey Duct · Defendex · Fireclad · Asbestos Felt Jacket, Asphalt Saturated · Asbestos Grapevine Finish Felt · Asbestos Paper · Asbestos Paper Tape · Asbestoseal · Base Sheet · Black Top Asbestos · Carocel · Double Sanded Asbestos · Fiberock · Fiberock Asbestos Felt · Fiberock Cap Sheet · Fireguard · Fireguard Jacketing · Grosscell · and 11 more on the company's page
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (268)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Barrett Series 400 (Celotex) · Best Felt (Armstrong Cork) · Bird Metal Gravel Stops Type Gs-2 (Bird & Son) · Blue Chip Asbestos Finishing Felt (Johns-Manville) · Bromley's Honor Pledge (George W. Bromley) · Buca Adhesive (Bird & Son) · Cafco-Asbestos (Cafco) · Carey Foil (Celotex) · Ceilinite (Johns-Manville) · Cel-lux (Nicolet) · Cellamite (Johns-Manville) · Cellotone (Nicolet) · Centurian Base Felt (Johns-Manville) · Cleangard (H. K. Porter) · Coated Asbestos Base Felt (Johns-Manville) · and 248 more: all paper, felt and millboard
See also
- Philip Carey Manufacturing Company in the Lexicon
- Philip Carey: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Philip Carey on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981 (July 1, 1981), p. 18.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1955, April 1955 (April 1, 1955), p. 11.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 65. Not yet published in our library.
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