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  1. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 4, 1980

    A. Mayer-Pareyn to R. B. Von Wald and J. A. Brown on the Health and Safety History of J-M do Brazil (1980)

    …insulation workers at the Rio shipyards wearing respirators when applying material in confined spaces. However, this is not the general practice on insulation jobs." On page 11, the author states that W.B. Reitze pointed out…

  2. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 23, 1952

    Arthur L. Fisk Jr. and Glenn A. Coughlan of Idaho on a Rock Wool Lung Fibrosis Claim (1952)

    …an assistant attorney general of Idaho handling a claim against the State Insurance Fund for total disability "allegedly arising from fibrosis of the lungs due to breathing rock wool dust." Fisk enclosed a 1935 article by…

  3. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 1, 1952

    Arthur L. Fisk Jr. to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway on Skin Irritation from Stonefelt Rock Wool (1952)

    …s Legal Department to E. M. Hudgins, general claim agent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company in Richmond, Virginia, about complaints of rashes from J-M's Type A Stonefelt insulation, which Fisk describes as…

  4. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 7, 1955

    Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on the Quebec Mining Association's Report (1955)

    …earlier the textile makers had turned down an autopsy study because of its implications about cancer (June 1955 general meeting). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes…

  5. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 3, 1941

    Bowers & Rinehart and Vandiver Brown on Joseph Kopicki's Silicosis Claim (1941)

    …J-M wished to settle without litigation. On January 6 Vandiver Brown, J-M's general attorney, replied that he had asked the Manville plant for "complete information concerning Mr. Kopicki as revealed by our records…

  6. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 15, 1968

    C. L. Sheckler to H. M. Ball on the Resale of Used Fiber Bags (1968)

    …L. Sheckler of Johns-Manville's Environmental Control Department to H. M. Ball, the company's general counsel, with a copy to H. M. Jackson. Sheckler reports that many J-M locations were selling empty used…

  7. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 10, 1948

    Canadian Johns-Manville Mine Division Industrial Hygiene Committee Minutes on Mill Dust Control (1948)

    …Hygiene Meeting, Mine Division 7/10/48. "Failure of General Headquarters to approve this appropriation is difficult to understand, in view of the fact that it would reduce dust within the mill about 50%. The Industrial…

  8. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 1, 1968

    Correspondence on Canadian Johns-Manville's Caution Label for Asbestos Fiber Bags and the British Objections (1968–1969)

    …Hendry, general sales manager of Canadian Johns-Manville's Asbestos Fibre Division in Quebec, told customers that "each bag of chrysotile asbestos fibre shipped by this Company will carry a label" warning that inhaling it "over…

  9. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 3, 1954

    Dr. David T. DuBow and Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on Warning Fibrocel Installers About Perlite (1954)

    …DuBow tells Dr. Smith that it has been suggested that "the general sales force be alerted with respect to the potential health hazards in the use of expanded perlite." Dr. Smith responds (8/16/54) that…

  10. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 7, 1961

    Dr. David T. DuBow, Dr. Kenneth W. Smith and C. H. Grote on Releasing Medical Records to Insurance Companies (1961)

    …the Johns-Manville Corporation," and asked Dr. Kenneth W. Smith whether J-M had a general policy. Smith replied on July 19 that with proper authorization the records could be revealed, but "only when the employee…

  11. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 26, 1959

    Dr. David T. DuBow to M. F. Naylor on Releasing Employees' X-Rays to Their Doctors (1959)

    …L. Sheckler about how the Medical Department should answer treating physicians who asked to see employees' X-rays. DuBow put the question to the medical departments of six companies: General Motors at Linden, New Jersey, Squibb…

  12. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 20, 1968

    Dr. George W. Wright to Herbert M. Ball on the Asbestosis Defense Task Force (1968)

    …in Cleveland and a medical adviser to Johns-Manville, to Herbert M. Ball, J-M's vice president and general counsel. Wright comments point by point on R. R. Standel's plan for an "asbestosis defense…

  13. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 25, 1954

    Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to A. J. Maahs on a Warning for Ring-Tite Lubricant (1954)

    …lubricant, used with J-M's Ring-Tite pipe coupling. "In general," Smith wrote, "when a toxic hazard associated with one of our products has been established all employees working in the fields of research, production…

  14. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 6, 1950

    Dr. Paul Cartier to A. L. Penhale of Asbestos Corporation on the New York Lung Cancer Conference (1950)

    …Gloyne (pathologist) as source material. He states that these researchers have found a tenfold increase in the incidence of lung cancer in the asbestotic group when compared with the general population. Cartier points out that conference…

  15. 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…

  16. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 10, 1969

    E. M. Fenner to All Plant, Mill and Mine Managers on the Membrane Filter Technique (1969)

    …all plant, mill, mine, production and division general managers, announcing that J-M would begin measuring asbestos dust by the membrane filter technique. "The British asbestos industry has used this method for many years," Fenner writes;…

  17. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 14, 1943

    Elliott DeForest of the Northwest Magnesia Association to Washington State on Deleting Its Asbestosis Rule (1943)

    …of Labor, 6/14/43, requesting on behalf of the Magnesia Association that proposed General Safety Standard 49, Article A-5, re asbestosis "be deleted." DeForest indicates that in the 40-year experience of the Association…

  18. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 28, 1966

    F. J. Solon Jr. to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith Asking for Records on Cancer Among J-M Workers (1966)

    …lung cancer and other forms of cancer among employees at J-M's asbestos mines, mills and asbestos-processing plants has been as low or lower than would be expected among the general population. To date…

  19. 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…

  20. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 18, 1956

    H. M. Jackson to Schilling on the Travelers Dust Survey of the Manville Pipe Department (1956)

    …to Schilling at the Manville plant on a survey of the pipe department in "P" Building made by the Travelers insurance company's laboratory. Jackson writes that the counts "in general" showed adequate control, with exceptions…