R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to OSHA Docket Officer, Transmitting TBA Industrial Products Statement and Tables on English Asbestos Factory Cohort (1976)

Letter from the Asbestos Information Association to the OSHA docket officer, supplementing its 8 April 1976 comments on the proposed asbestos exposure standard. It transmits a statement and ten data tables from TBA Industrial Products Ltd. on dust counts, asbestosis and lung cancer deaths in a cohort at its UK asbestos textile plant, and says these support Dr. Hans Weill's and Johns-Manville's comments on the 'English Asbestos Factory' study.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-2: Letter from R. H. Mereness, AIA, to OSHA Docket Officer, 17 Sept 1976
• Pages 3-4: Statement by TBA Industrial Products Ltd. on the OSHA enquiry, signed N. Rhodes, dated 25/8/76
• Pages 5-7: Table 1: airborne asbestos dust survey results by plant location, 1961-1972 (fibres/ml)
• Page 8: Table 2: typical dust counts around carding machines
• Page 9: Table 3: cumulative exposure and cause of death, position at 31 Dec 1974
• Page 10: Table 4: years since first exposure relative to asbestosis and cause of death
• Page 11: Table 5: year first exposed and cumulative exposure in fibre years/ml
• Page 12: Table 6: distribution of cohort and asbestosis cases by cumulative exposure
• Page 13: Table 7: exposure history of certified asbestosis cases
• Page 14: Table 8: exposure history of lung cancer deaths
• Page 15: Table 9: Weaving Department workers exposed to low levels of dust
• Page 16: Table 10: history of workers with consistently low exposure, Weaving Department

People and organizations

From R. H. Mereness (Executive Director) to Docket Officer, Docket H-033, U.S. Department of Labor.

• Robert H. Mereness (author)
• Asbestos Information Association/North America (its organization)
• Johns-Manville (named)
• OSHA (named)
• Tulane University (named)
• Turner Brothers Asbestos Company Limited (named)
• U.S. Department of Labor (named)
• XVIII International Congress on Occupational Health (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos Textiles: Cloth, Garments, Gloves, and Blankets · Asbestos and Lung Cancer · Johns-Manville · OSHA · What is asbestosis.

About this copy

This is document UC-1345 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 16 pages. Production numbers 03145 to 03146.