27 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 11, 1977
D. H. Smuul to B. L. Kotyuk on Delays in Protective Clothing at the Manville Plant (1977)
…On October 18, 1976, Dr. Paul Kotin told all corporate officers and division general managers that J-M would furnish head covering, full body covering and safety shoes, laundered at plant expense, and two lockers each…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 19, 1979
Dennis H. Markusson to R. B. Von Wald on Amending Waukegan's OSHA Logs (1979)
An eight-page memo of April 19, 1979, marked attorney's work product, from Dennis H. Markusson, Johns-Manville's associate general counsel, to R. B. Von Wald, copied to G. Earl Parker, on the Waukegan…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 18, 1970
H. M. Jackson to Dr. T. H. Davison Asking for a Survey of Plant Physical Examination Programs (1970)
A confidential one-page memo of February 18, 1970, from H. M. Jackson at J-M's general headquarters to Dr. T. H. Davison at Waukegan, asking him to survey all plant locations before the Policy…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 1, 1970
M. W. Burleson's Notice to the Industrial Insulations Division on Health Hazard Caution Labels (1970)
…W. Burleson, general manager of Johns-Manville's Industrial Insulations Division, with two attached sheets. It orders caution warnings on "certain packages and products" sold by the division that contain asbestos fiber and free crystalline silica…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 27, 1976
W. B. Reitze, OSHA Letter No. 34 on the 2-Fiber Asbestos Standard (1976)
In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: W.B. Reitze memorandum to Senior Officers and Division General Managers, 7/27/76, stating that…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 16, 1979
W. B. Reitze to Plant Managers on Posting Industrial Hygiene Survey Reports (1979)
…1979, from W. B. Reitze of Johns-Manville's headquarters health and safety staff to plant, production and general managers, copied to Dr. Paul Kotin. "Once again, it has been brought to my attention that certain…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 24, 1979
E. D. Marcucci to J. H. Swensen on Not Labeling Transite Pipe (1979)
…Swensen of Johns-Manville, reporting on a September 20 meeting with Dennis Markusson, J-M's associate general counsel, about labeling Transite pipe. "Since we are firm in our conviction that installers will not be exposed…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 17, 1971
H. M. Jackson to Dr. G. W. Wright and Dr. T. H. Davison on Dr. Enterline's Retiree Study Findings (1971)
…Dr. Enterline commented that in the "non-exposure" plants, maintenance and service personnel had a higher incidence of bronchogenic cancer, whereas production personnel had general population equivalent rates. He also said that at the Asbestos, Quebec…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 29, 1975
J. R. D. Wilson's Notice to Toronto Plant Employees on Smoking and Asbestos (1975)
…cites a study by Dr. Irving Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine indicating that without smoking, lung cancer among asbestos workers would be no higher than in the general population. From June 2, 1975…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 8, 1970
John C. Settle of Travelers to Richard R. Standel, Jr. on Settling the Frances T. Rogers Claim (1970)
…Company, to Richard R. Standel, Jr., J-M's associate general counsel, on a claim against J-M by Frances T. Rogers. Settle notes Standel's plans to discuss a possible compromise and says that, since…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 25, 1979
Johns-Manville Chairman of the Board's Bulletin on Smoking and Health at World Headquarters (1979)
…McKinney, setting a smoking policy at Johns-Manville's World Headquarters. Citing "the strong direct link between smoking and several disabling or fatal diseases" and the Surgeon General's report of January 11, 1979, it extended…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 5, 1970
Minutes of the Formation and First Board Meetings of the Asbestos Information Association/North America (1970)
…Asbestos Information Association/North America "to inform the public concerning the facts about the asbestos/health problem." They named Harold McNabb of Certain-Teed chairman and Raines secretary, had J-M's general counsel H. M…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 2, 1978
Notes of Dennis Markusson and Barbara Diemer's Interview of Hugh Jackson on J-M Health and Safety History (1978)
…by Dennis H. Markusson, J-M's associate general counsel, and Barbara Diemer (joined on the second day by a Claudette P.). Jackson summarized the company's past health and safety practice: respirators "were not mandatory…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 20, 1979
Philip G. Peters to Dennis H. Markusson on the J-M Medical Library Bibliography (1979)
…Peters to Dennis H. Markusson, Johns-Manville's associate general counsel, on the "J-M Medical Library Bibliography." Answering Markusson's letter of April 5, Peters writes: "I understand your comments completely and I will make…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 10, 1977
W. B. Reitze to H. B. Moreno on Visits to MEISA, Almeria and Asbestos de Mexico (1977)
…best. J-M was a 40% minority stockholder, but he wrote that continuing in the venture "without insisting upon a general overall cleanup is immoral, if not criminal," and that after J-M's U.S…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 11, 1975
W. B. Reitze's OSHA Letter No. 31 Making Respirators Mandatory Above the Limit (1975)
…from W. B. Reitze of Johns-Manville's Health, Safety & Environment Department to all J-M senior officers, division general managers and plant, mine and employee relations managers, on respirators and hearing protection. "Almost daily, instances…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 23, 1970
M. W. Burleson to W. D. Gaches and Others on Routing Customer Health Inquiries to C. L. Sheckler (1970)
What it shows Burleson was general manager of the Industrial Insulations Division, and the memo came three weeks after his order to put caution labels on the division's asbestos products. It placed the company's…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 1, 1971
Johns-Manville Employee Relations Department Health Research Report, July 1971 (1971)
What it shows The report notes that the retiree study had found "certain types of causes of death which are higher than those found in the general population" (see Jackson's memo on the Enterline study)…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 14, 1971
C. L. Hite to B. Mulder on Waukegan's Red Slip Cases and the Union (1971)
…Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: C.L. Hite (Waukegan) writes to B. Mulder (General Headquarters), dated 4/14/71, regarding Waukegan's handling of red slip cases…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 17, 1979
Dr. Paul Kotin to F. L. Pundsack on Waukegan's Failure to Report Occupational Disease Cases to OSHA (1979)
…cases immediately to OSHA, along with an explanation for the failure to comply." Two days later J-M's associate general counsel recommended amending the logs without telling OSHA (Markusson's memo). Waukegan's handling of…