Documents in our library describe Shake Shield (Philip Carey) as “a new asbestos felt, underlayment and interlayment membrane for wood shingle and shake roofs”.1 They give it as sold from 1968.1 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 Shake Shield (Philip Carey) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1968, December 1968
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “asbestos felt” (as of 1968), p. 1082
Kind of product
We list Shake Shield (Philip Carey) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet and paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers, Roofers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Philip Carey (26)
Careytemp · Careycel · Aircel · Careystone · Thermo-board · Firefoil · Formboard · Industrial A-c Board · Marine Panel · No. 1 Hard · Roll Board · Rustic Shakes · Shasta Snow · Tri-Tone · Vitricel · 4.2 Careystone · AC Board · Asbestos millboard · Asbestos Rollboard · Carey · 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) · Ruco (maker not given) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Salem (Johns-Manville) · Sbr (Nicolet) · Scotstone (Marinite) · Servicised (Albert C. Fischer) · Shado-Shake (Supradur) · Shake-Tex (maker not given) · Sheetflextos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Sheetrock (U.S. Gypsum) · Sheetrock RH Fillers (U.S. Gypsum) · Siding Shingles (U.S. Gypsum) · Sponge Felt (GAF) · Stoneglow (GAF) · Stonewall (Ruberoid) · 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 · Grosscell · No. 15 Fiberock · No. 15 Tar Fiberock · No. 30 Fiberock · No. 35 Fiberock · No. 45 Fiberock · No. 55 Fiberock · White Top Asbestos Jacket · Asbestos · Asbestos Felt (Asphalt Saturated) · Asbestos Felt · Asbestos Felt Jacket, Asphalt Saturated · Asbestos Grapevine Finish Felt · Asbestos Paper · Asbestos Paper Tape · 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) · Roofinsul (Johns-Manville) · Ru-ber-oid Watson (Ruberoid) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Sal-Mo (Sall Mountain) · Salamander (Johns-Manville) · Scapa-Hall (Morey Paper & Mill Supply) · Servicised (Albert C. Fischer) · Siluminite (Turners Asbestos Cement) · So Good That Only The Dealers Sell It (Lehon) · Sofilia (Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha) · Sound Barrier (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Spauldite (Spaulding Fibre) · Spec Ira-440-C (Celotex) · Spec Ira-440-SW (Celotex) · Spec Ira-440-W (Celotex) · and 248 more: all paper, felt and millboard
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
- Asbestos Magazine, 1968, December 1968 (December 1, 1968), p. 14.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 108. Not yet published in our library.
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