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  1. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 19, 1952

    Arthur L. Fisk Jr. to Caledonia Electronics on a Skin Rash from Quinterra Type 5 Paper (1952)

    …from Arthur L. Fisk Jr. of Johns-Manville's Legal Department to Caledonia Electronics of Caledonia, New York. A woman at the customer's plant who handled J-M's Quinterra Type 5 paper had developed…

  2. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 29, 1953

    Johns-Manville Board of Directors Minutes on the Celite Dust Abatement Program at Lompoc (1953)

    …and that the California health department had issued a bulletin on diatomaceous earth pneumoconiosis in 1952. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows…

  3. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 13, 1958

    H. M. Jackson to Brush Beryllium Company on Cerafelt (1958)

    …H.M. Jackson dated 3/13/58 to Brush Beryllium Co. Advised that there is no toxic reaction involved in exposure to Cerafelt but a chemical irritation could cause discomfort to certain individuals, i.e. skin…

  4. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 10, 1937

    A. J. Lanza to McConnell, Brown and Gardner on X-Rays of J-M's Lompoc Diatomaceous Earth Workers (1937)

    …M employees were examined and a few were noted to have "an unusual type of shadow". Opinion expressed that a typical reaction of long-term employees suggests this dust (diatomaceous earth) might be potentially harmful. Dr…

  5. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 31, 1950

    George K. Foster to Kenneth W. Smith Enclosing Comments on the Saranac Asbestosis Report (1950)

    …1/31/50, in which Foster states that he has not yet received Dr. Smith's reactions to the Gardner report. The attached comments are not complimentary of the Gardner report. The author states that the…

  6. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 5, 1974

    J. A. McKinney to W. L. VanDerbeek on Informing Foreign Customers About Asbestos (1974)

    …Health." McKinney reports that the booklet "What Every Employee Should Know About Asbestos," sent to 21 J-M plants the previous November, had drawn no adverse union or employee reaction, and recommends sending it to customers…

  7. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 17, 1968

    Johns-Manville Environmental Health Task Force Policy Committee Minutes, December 1968 (1968)

    …Force, 12/17/68. In light of the UK's adverse reaction to the labelling of fiber bags, it was agreed that J-M would use a caution label only on domestic shipments (U.S. and…

  8. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 14, 1939

    Leroy Gardner, Interim Report on Experimental Asbestosis at the Saranac Laboratory (1939)

    …The experiments had set out to reproduce advanced asbestosis in animals, but guinea pigs breathing very finely ground Canadian chrysotile for 30 months showed little reaction, while a second group breathing longer fibres began to develop…

  9. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 7, 1980

    Warren W. Greene to Johns-Manville Sales Corporation on the Nix Compensation Settlement (1980)

    …Greene states "that it was his impression that Johns-Manville's reaction would be either this lady settles at the negotiated amount for everything or we will stonewall her and she'll probably never leave (sic…

  10. 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)

    …1948). Writing to an outside consultant, Hazard describes the finding as a mild reaction and compares Kaylo favorably with the asbestos dust insulators already breathed. The attached article is written up separately (Schepers, Durkan and Delahant…

  11. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 20, 1952

    Arthur L. Fisk Jr. to Mrs. R. A. Duhamel and Dr. Fred C. Brock on Rock Wool Dermatitis (1952)

    …infrequent and rare occasions has arisen in our factories in connection with the few people who are allergic to rock wool." He described four kinds of skin reaction seen from rock wool contact and their treatment.

  12. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 15, 1975

    W. B. Reitze and J. T. Vanderveen on Replacing Thermobestos with Thermo-12 in Brazil (1975)

    …in Brazil "we would be both derelict and short-sighted." Vanderveen planned to justify the project as "environmental control," citing "good corporate citizenship and the future possibility of adverse local reaction," without using Reitze's memo…

  13. Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1955

    G. W. H. Schepers, T. M. Durkan and A. B. Delahant, "Effect of Inhaled Commercial Hydrous Calcium Silicate Dust on Animal Tissues" (1955)

    …describing the finding as a "mild asbestosis reaction" (Hazard to Brought). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Schepers published article on 7…

  14. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 3, 1954

    H. M. Jackson to R. C. Smith at Waukegan on Hygienic Dust Control and Threshold Limits (1954)

    …ACGIH standard for amosite is 5 mppcf. Jackson states that J-M's clinical experience suggests that there is a considerable difference in reaction between chrysotile and amosite fibers. The amosite appears to produce asbestosis in…

  15. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 11, 1979

    J. D. McGee's Memos to File on Picketing at the Manville Plant (1979)

    …a plain-clothes detective stood nearby, and headquarters asked to be kept informed while keeping J-M's reaction "low key." The picketing was orderly and over by 12:15. Other signs asked "What is dignity…

  16. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 9, 1948

    Johns-Manville Correspondence on Describing Marinite to the American Medical Association (1948)

    …no soluble or insoluble toxic materials" and that J-M had never before met a case of allergic reaction to it. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew…

  17. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 28, 1944

    Leroy Gardner to Ivan Sabourin on Asbestosis and Tuberculosis (1944)

    …over 80%." He calls these "excessive amounts of severe asbestosis." He also writes that the dust reaction in Quebec "is very much less than it is in the fabricating plants in the United States." The letter…

  18. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 30, 1952

    Saranac Laboratory, Final Report on the Capacity of Inhaled Kaylo Dust to Injure the Lung (1952)

    …animals breathed an average of about 116 million particles per cubic foot. The report attributed the reaction to the asbestos fibers rather than the calcium silicate. Dust exposure had little effect on tuberculosis in infected animals…

  19. 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)

    …21/69, N. W. Hendry (AFD) states that due to adverse British reaction to caution labeling asbestos fiber bags, J-M has agreed not to put caution labels on bags destined for international customers. Instead, J…

  20. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 12, 1944

    Vandiver Brown Memorandum on Dust Problems Discussed with Leroy Gardner (1944)

    …absurd". Gardner objected to the word "poison" being applied to asbestos dust, because the injury produced by asbestos is caused by a mechanical irritation rather than by chemical reaction. Also on 10/12/44, V. Brown…