Occupational Safety and Health: Hearings Before the Select Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, on H.R. 14816 (1968)

Excerpt from the printed 1968 House hearings on H.R. 14816, a bill to let the Secretary of Labor set workplace safety and health standards and a forerunner of the 1970 OSH Act. After the title and contents pages, it reproduces the March 7, 1968 testimony and prepared statement of Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine on six years of research among asbestos insulation workers: excess deaths among 632 union members, lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis, the long delay between exposure and disease, and asbestos bodies found in many New York City autopsies. It ends with the start of the Manufacturing Chemists Association's testimony.