Documents in our library describe Precision-molded (Philip Carey) as “pipecover,block”.1 They give it as made from 1948.1 They put its asbestos content at 15%.1,2 The list marks “Precision-molded” 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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Asbestos claims
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What each document says
Every statement about Precision-molded (Philip Carey) in the documents, in each document's own words.
The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)
Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (1990)
- Asbestos content: “Super Light 85% Magnesia ... contained normal carbonate magnesium, 15% asbestos (precision molded)”, said by Celotex Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 52
Kind of product
We list Precision-molded (Philip Carey) with pipe covering and block insulation, 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, Pipefitters and Plumbers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Philip Carey (26)
Careytemp · Careycel · 19 Hitemp · Aircel · 85 Magnesia · Grosscell · Hightemp #12 · Hightemp #15 · Impervo · Insulation Seal 820 · Lennolite · Multi-Ply · Super-light · Super-Light 85% Magnesia · Temp-check · Tempcheck · Alltemp · Asbestos Paper · Asbestos Sponge · Carey Cal-silicate · 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) · Pipecoverings (U.S. Gypsum) · Plisulate (Plibrico Jointless Firebrick) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · Precision Molded Pipe Covering (Fibreboard) · Precision-molded (Ehret/Keene) · Precision-molded (Fibreboard) · Precision-molded (Mundet Cork) · PV Supertemp Block (Eagle-Picher) · Pyro-bestos (U.S. Gypsum) · Pyrocal (Fibreboard) · Pyrocal (PPG Industries) · Rigid Block Insulation (U.S. Gypsum) · Ring-Tite (Johns-Manville) · Ru-ber-oid Watson (Ruberoid) · Rutland Repair Products Ricky Rutland (Rutland Fire Clay Co.) · and 230 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
See also
- 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
- The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 7.
- Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 5.
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