169 results for “General Electric”, page 7 of 9
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 16, 1969
Johns-Manville Executive Bulletin 312-3 on Environmental Control Standards, Revised (1969)
What it shows The bulletin was reviewed by J-M's Environmental Control Subcommittee and the general managers in September 1969 (Fenner's report of the subcommittee meeting). Its 2 fibers/cc design figure was far…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1939
Johns-Manville Release on the Hospital and Accident Prevention at Asbestos, Quebec (1939)
What it shows The release reasons that because the hospital found less tuberculosis among the workmen than in the general population, "Dust is, therefore, not a serious hazard to health." It names Dr. R. H. Stevenson…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 30, 1957
Dr. Kenneth Smith to Ivan Sabourin on the Condensed Industrial Hygiene Foundation Survey (1957)
…stressing that "the hypothesis that asbestos miners do not have a higher mortality from lung cancer than does the general population cannot be rejected." He also agreed with Doctors Cartier and Braun that some workers "probably…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 18, 1957
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to A. J. Stenari on a Customer's Silicosis Question about Steam-Cured Asbestos Cement (1957)
…such inquiries should be handled one at a time, and "it is the responsibility of the General Attorney to approve all written or oral representations to customers in the field of occupational health." In 1957, then…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 27, 1948
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to W. A. Young on Asbestos and Silica Hazards at the Toronto Plant (1948)
…"but not for general publication," that men there sometimes developed "rather obstinate cases of pneumonia." He advised taking dust counts so that good counts would help "dispel any rumors which may arise," and suggested telling the…
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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 · October 24, 1966
Johns-Manville "Position Paper on the Health Aspects of Asbestos" (1966)
…positive tendency to develop asbestosis, are no more likely to develop lung cancer than the general population," relying on Anthony Lanza (1952) and the Braun and Truan study of Quebec miners (1958), while acknowledging that no…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 19, 1944
Sumner Simpson to Leroy Gardner on Reviewing Raybestos-Manhattan's Manheim X-Ray Films (1944)
…company was "alright" in Gardner's records and for "the Metropolitan Insurance Company," "but I mean general publication." The letter answers the request Gardner raised with Brown earlier that month (Gardner and Brown on the X…
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Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1955
Kenneth W. Smith, "Pulmonary Disability in Asbestos Workers" (1955)
…It also states as a general finding that "no cases of asbestosis were found who had worked less than 20 years in the dust." In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what…
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Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1968
R. Belleau and E. A. Gaensler, Mesothelioma and Asbestosis (1968)
…group had attributed 17 of 325 deaths among insulation workers to mesothelioma, "a rate of 1:20 compared to 1:10000" in the general population; the tumor could occur without asbestosis and took 20 to 40…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 6, 1954
Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee and Board of Governors Minutes on Insurance Forms, Autopsies and Lung Cancer (1954)
…representative of Asten-Hill advocates calling asbestosis "pulmonary fibrosis" on insurance claim forms and answering questions from insurers re occupational nexus in the negative, so that indemnity can be obtained from general insurance companies. K.W…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 11, 1935
Association of Casualty and Surety Executives Pamphlets on Occupational Disease Compensation (1935)
…F. Robertson Jones, the Association's general manager, had spoken at the January Mellon Institute symposium Brown attended (Brown's memorandum). The pamphlets show that insurers already expected long-delayed dust disease claims and wanted them…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 9, 1938
Bronson Batchelor to Vandiver Brown on the Public Health Service Asbestosis Study (1938)
…nothing of its findings. Related documents Dreessen and Others, A Study of Asbestosis in the Asbestos Textile Industry (1938) Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service on Dust Standards (1930)
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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 · July 25, 1969
C. L. Sheckler to J. D. Anderson on Mass Workmen's Compensation Filings at Manville (1969)
…that the agenda for a first meeting to discuss this problem include a review of the number of cases in litigation, types of cases in general categories (such as traumatic and occupational disease), claims handling procedures…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 19, 1950
Dr. J. F. Knox of Turner Brothers Asbestos, Report to the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association on Pulmonary Cancer (1950)
…which carcinoma was associated with asbestosis. Knox points out the limitations of such small studies, and advocates clinical studies comparing cancer rates of those in the general population with those of asbestos workers as a group.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 30, 1957
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to F. M. Stumpf of Columbia Acoustics and Fireproofing on Asbestos Hazards (1957)
…Smith notes the general risk but represents that among 2,000 J-M workers handling in excess of 500,000 tons of asbestos annually: "We have developed no new cases of asbestosis for many years." Smith…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 5, 1959
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to H. G. Donovan on the Bonafide Plastics Company (1959)
…The next month Smith told General Motors and Firestone that long inhalation of asbestos may cause lung changes (Smith to General Motors and Firestone). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what…
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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…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 1, 1954
H. M. Jackson to T. R. Turnbull on Fiber Counts Above J-M's Limit at Waukegan (1954)
…Cement and Magnesia Departments, March 10-15. Jackson attaches copies of Travelers' analysis report. While in general the dust counts indicated good control, there are several sampling stations, particularly at the feeding operations, in which the…