24 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 12, 1956
W. G. Hazard of Owens-Illinois to Ira I. Brought on Kaylo and the Saranac Experiments (1956)
What it shows Saranac had told Owens-Illinois in 1948 that every animal exposed to Kaylo dust developed "unmistakable evidence of asbestosis" and that Kaylo "should be handled as a hazardous industrial dust" (Vorwald's letter…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 14, 1948
W. G. Hazard of Owens-Illinois to the Industrial Hygiene Foundation on Studying Kaylo Dust (1948)
…grinding. The letter came four weeks after Saranac's Arthur Vorwald had told Owens-Illinois that Kaylo produced asbestosis in animals and that this conclusion was "final rather than tentative" (Vorwald's letter of November 16…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 16, 1948
Arthur J. Vorwald to Owens-Illinois on Kaylo Causing Asbestosis in Animals (1948)
What it shows To help Owens-Illinois plan a safety program, the report also drew on Saranac's unpublished asbestos experiments, which it said had been reported "to certain other supporting companies, but not as yet…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 29, 1951
Saranac Laboratory, Report of Industrial Hygiene Survey of the Owens-Illinois Kaylo Division Plant (1951)
…to the management." Saranac's animal work on Kaylo dust is in Vorwald's 1948 letter to Owens-Illinois and the final report of January 1952. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 30, 1952
Saranac Laboratory, Final Report on the Capacity of Inhaled Kaylo Dust to Injure the Lung (1952)
…apart from a slightly unfavorable effect when exposure came first. The final report confirmed what Saranac had told Owens-Illinois in 1948. The company's plant survey is in Saranac's May 1951 industrial hygiene report…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 25, 1950
Arthur J. Vorwald and J. P. Woodard on Shipping Asbestos in Burlap Bags (1950)
…suggested the use of paper containers for asbestos fiber, comparable to those used for diatomaceous earth, as an improvement from a hygiene perspective. Problem was brought to Vorwald's attention by medical director of Owens-Illinois.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 21, 1933
Vandiver Brown to C. B. Belknap on the New Jersey Rock Wool Silicosis Transcripts (1933)
…Owens-Illinois. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: On 6/21/33, Vandiver Brown sent to C.B. Belknap, Esq. (Owens-Illinois…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 22, 1956
H. M. Jackson to Dr. R. E. Joyner of Carbide and Carbon Chemicals on Superex and Thermobestos Insulation (1956)
…particles. That letter is not in this file, which holds only the first letter, the one saying Thermobestos contained expanded perlite. Related documents Arthur J. Vorwald to Owens-Illinois on Kaylo Causing Asbestosis in Animals (1948)
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 14, 1952
H. M. Jackson to All Plant Managers on Caution Labels for Celite (1952)
…and its wording matches the asbestos label debated in the 1952 Illinois labeling memos. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Hugh Jackson…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 21, 1944
Physician's Letter to Edward Ames of Owens-Corning Fiberglas on a Pipe Coverer with Asbestosis (1944)
…It follows an earlier letter to Owens-Corning about the same worker. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: An unsigned letter to…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 9, 1957
Ira I. Brought to Harold Boeschenstein of Owens-Corning on the Asbestos Workers Union and Asbestosis (1957)
…remedial steps" could be taken. By 1957 the insulators themselves were raising asbestosis as a cause of death among their members. About this copy This is an Owens-Corning Fiberglas paper, not a Johns-Manville one…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1944
Unsigned Draft Letter to Edward C. Ames of Owens-Corning Fiberglas on Albert Baumgardner (1944)
…of what the company knew describes this document as follows: In an unsigned letter from a physician to E.C. Ames (P.R. Manager, Owens-Corning), Albert Baumgardner, a 55-year old insulation worker, is discussed…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 8, 1969
Henry C. Puetz v. C. F. Braun and Others, California Asbestosis Findings and Award (1966–1969)
…findings list more than 30 employers over those years, among them Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1949–1953 and 1957), Fibreboard, Owens Corning Fiberglas and many insulation contractors, and award him disability payments and further medical treatment.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 14, 1964
National Insulation Manufacturers Association Board Minutes on J-M's Caution Statement (1964)
…1964, with M. W. Burleson of Johns-Manville Sales Corp. in the chair and directors from Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning, Fibreboard and other companies present. Most of the business was routine. Under other business it…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 13, 1960
National Insulation Manufacturers Association Winter Meeting Minutes (1960)
…J. B. Jobe), along with Eagle-Picher, Keasbey & Mattison, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning, Union Asbestos & Rubber and others, plus the association's legal and publicity counsel. The business recorded is commercial and technical: product specifications…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 21, 1962
Union Carbide Institute Plant Dust Surveys of J-M Thermobestos Insulation Blocks (1962)
…Robert E. Peele surveyed the plant's insulation shop and found that cutting J-M's "Thermobestos" blocks "produces a definite atmospheric hazard to health," while cutting Owens-Corning's "Kaylo" blocks did not. The plant…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 3, 1961
California Industrial Accident Commission Award in Riley v. Johns-Manville (1961)
…named first among the defendants, who also included Armstrong Cork Company, Philip Carey Manufacturing, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Fibreboard Paper Products and many insulation contractors, and J-M was among the parties served. An earlier award in…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 1961
Supplemental and Amended Petition in Faciane v. Travelers Insurance Company (1961)
…groups: Faciane's insulation contractors (sued for failing to warn him and to give him a safe place to work), the makers of the materials he installed (J-M, Owens Corning Fiberglas, Keasbey & Mattison, Eagle-Picher…
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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)
…He pointed to an Owens-Corning study of 1,400 workers as an example of "a strong and convincing piece of evidence in their favor." The memo shows that J-M's repeated assurances of low…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 1976
Handwritten Note from "Betty" to "Jim" on Owen Hall's Disability Retirement (1976)
…and that page 2 mentions "avoidance behavior" toward Myron Janke, a foreman who died of lung cancer. No such passage is in this file, whose three pages concern only Owen Hall's application for disability retirement.