32 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 25, 1969
H. M. Jackson to Dr. John P. McCann of General Dynamics on Insulation Work at Groton (1969)
…Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Letter from Jackson to McCann of General Dynamics Corporation following a trip made by Jackson and Dr…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 3, 1962
F. H. Deeg to F. E. Henderson at Lompoc on a Lung Injury Claim and the Warning Label (1962)
What it shows A claim under the general liability policy, rather than workers' compensation, points to someone outside J-M's own workforce, and the request shows that by 1962 the company was using a warning…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 30, 1961
C. L. Sheckler to All Industrial Relations Managers on Union Requests for Dust Count Records (1961)
…no constructive purpose, could be readily misinterpreted, and adversely utilized." Recommends that if it becomes essential to discuss such information, the discussion should be kept as general as possible and specific atmospheric, hygiene, medical, workmen's…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 13, 1964
C. L. Sheckler to C. H. Grote and L. Hemerda on Trying Manville Occupational Disease Claims (1964)
A two-page confidential memo of May 13, 1964, from C. L. Sheckler at Johns-Manville's General Headquarters to C. H. Grote and L. Hemerda at the Manville, New Jersey, plant about a wave of…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 13, 1964
C. L. Sheckler to G. H. Gould on Delaying Help for a Manville Worker with Early Asbestosis (1964)
…1964, from C. L. Sheckler at Johns-Manville's General Headquarters to G. H. Gould at the Manville plant about a woman employee (her name is blank on this copy) whose X-rays Dr. Kenneth W…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 25, 1964
G. A. Wall to J. G. Moore and Others on Dryer Standards at Manville (1964)
A two-page confidential memo of June 25, 1964, from G. A. Wall at J-M's General Headquarters to J. G. Moore, C. H. Grote and R. Wyllie on a union grievance over the production…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 25, 1960
H. M. Jackson to A. R. Girardi on the Nashua Press Department Dust Collector (1960)
…from H. M. Jackson, J-M's manager of industrial health, at general headquarters to A. R. Girardi, on Nashua (New Hampshire) Appropriation 012-IR-1090, an $87,950 revision of the press department's dust…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 20, 1968
H. M. Jackson to K. V. Lindell Approving the Proposed Caution Label for Asbestos Fiber (1968)
A short memo of March 20, 1968, from H. M. Jackson at Johns-Manville's general headquarters to K. V. Lindell at the Jeffrey Mine in Quebec, copied to H. M. Ball and C. L. Sheckler…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 22, 1968
Warren Max Deutsch to K. V. Lindell on the Caution Statement for Chrysotile Fiber Bags (1968)
A two-page memo of March 22, 1968, from Warren Max Deutsch at Johns-Manville's general headquarters to K. V. Lindell of the Asbestos Fibre Division, copied to C. L. Sheckler and H. M. Jackson…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · May 8, 1968
C. L. Sheckler to Frank H. Zimmerman on Agreement over the Asbestos-Cement Health Safety Booklet (1968)
…noted "an apparent difference of opinion" among the council members, said Certain-Teed, General Aniline and Film, and Johns-Manville had tentatively approved the draft, and wrote that unanimous agreement on any publication dealing with health…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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;…
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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)
…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…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 23, 1968
Hooker Chemical Corporation and N. W. Hendry on Caution Labels for Asbestos Fiber Bags (1968–1969)
…N. W. Hendry, general sales manager of Johns-Manville Asbestos Limited in Asbestos, Quebec. J-M had sent notice a few months earlier that a caution label would become a standard part of its asbestos packaging…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 29, 1964
J. V. Miles to C. L. Sheckler on a Serious Dust Problem at the Marrero Pipe Plant (1964)
…L. Sheckler at General Headquarters on the 1964 industrial hygiene survey. Miles was "disappointed" that only two of the ten dust stations sampled in the Wet End on May 22 had supported the plant's view…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 7, 1966
Joe Goldfield to J. A. Vermeulen, Report of a Trip to Turner Brothers Asbestos Co. on Health Problems (1966)
…Co., Ltd., at Rochdale and Hindley Green in England. This part covered "general and health problems." Goldfield described Turner Brothers, part of the Turner & Newall group, and began a history of English health measures, which dated…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 17, 1968
Johns-Manville Environmental Health Task Force Policy Committee Minutes, December 1968 (1968)
…pointing up good practices in handling fibre," which president C. B. Burnett suggested be sent each year by registered mail, and Burnett asked general counsel Herbert Ball to look into other countries' rules on warning labels.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 21, 1969
R. R. Standel, Jr., Report on the Third Legal Problems Subcommittee Meeting of the Environmental Health Task Force (1969)
…B. Burnett, general counsel Herbert Morton Ball and other members of J-M's Environmental Health Task Force, on the March 18 meeting of its Legal Problems Subcommittee. Standel reported that settlement of the Tomplait asbestosis…