The federal agency that built and regulated the U.S. merchant fleet. In World War II it ran the emergency shipbuilding program, and with the Navy it set minimum health and safety standards for the shipyards and sent industrial hygiene consultants to survey them, including the pipe covering work where shipyard insulators handled asbestos. Its functions passed to the Department of Commerce in 1950.
Reports in the Library
- 1942Industrial Health Survey of the Bath Iron Works Corporation for the Maritime Commission
- 1942Industrial Health Survey of the South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation and the Todd-Bath Iron Works
- 1943Minimum Requirements for Safety and Industrial Health in Contract Shipyards
- 1944Kenneth W. Nelson and James P. Morgan, Industrial Hygiene Survey of Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation, Chickasaw, Alabama
- 1944Re-Inspection Report on Safety and Industrial Health at Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan
- 1944W. C. Dreessen and W. E. Fleischer, Asbestosis from Amosite Pipe Covering at Bath Iron Works