286 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 2 of 15
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Company document · 1969
The Potter v. Fibreboard case file (1969-1972)
The case The judgment names twelve defendants: Fibreboard, Combustion Engineering, Johns-Manville Products, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Eagle-Picher, Pittsburgh Corning, Unarco, Philip Carey, Armstrong Contracting & Supply, Standard Asbestos, Ruberoid and Armstrong Cork. The insurer of his…
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Company document · 1962
The Tomplait v. Combustion Engineering case file (1962-1969)
The case Tomplait sued the companies whose insulation he had installed in December 1966: Combustion Engineering and R&I Refractory and Insulation, three Johns-Manville companies, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning, Gustin-Bacon, Pittsburgh Plate Glass…
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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 · Union Carbide documents · January 30, 1962
Paul L. Losse (Eagle-Picher) to W. C. Turner on Private Brand Names for Eagle-Picher Insulation Products (1962)
…Table of General Refractories Co. (Grefco) private brand names Tables of North American Refractories (Narco) and Philip Carey Mfg. Co. brand names Table of Owens-Corning Fiberglas brand names Vertical file folder label (Tell-I-Vision)
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 4, 1962
H. E. Persinger and K. J. Garska, Summary Report on Health Hazard of Insulation Material: Determination of Alpha-Quartz by X-Ray Diffraction (1962)
Summary report on X-ray diffraction testing of two thermal insulation materials used at the Institute Plant, Owens Corning's Kaylo and Johns Manville's Thermo-Bestos, to determine alpha-quartz content. It reports that both…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 21, 1962
R. J. Sexton to Plant Manager Transmitting Peele's Industrial Hygiene Survey of 'Thermobestos' and 'Kaylo' Insulation Block Dust, Plant 511/512 (1962)
…Insulation Shop, Building 511-2018, where Johns-Manville 'Thermobestos' and Owens Corning 'Kaylo' insulation blocks were sawed. The letter says the report found 'Thermobestos' dust a definite health hazard with silicosis as the ultimate outcome, that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 4, 1962
R. J. Sexton to S. C. Giambruno on the Insulation Block Dust Survey of Johns-Manville "Thermobestos" at the Institute Plant (1962)
…hygienist R. E. Peele's 3 December 1962 memo and the enclosed 1962 industrial hygiene survey of dust from sawing Johns-Manville "Thermobestos" and Owens-Corning "Kaylo" insulation blocks. The memo recounts the earlier reports, a…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · March 21, 1962
R. J. Sexton to L. N. Dickinson Enclosing Union Carbide's Thermobestos and Kaylo Dust Survey (1962)
…operators complained in November 1961 of heavy dust when cutting Johns-Manville's Thermobestos blocks, and little when cutting Owens-Corning's Kaylo. Peele concluded that cutting Thermobestos with band saws "produces a definite atmospheric hazard…
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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 · Union Carbide documents · May 16, 1963
Handwritten Desk Diary Page for Thursday, May 16, 1963, Listing Calls and Meetings (1963)
…contacts and meetings. From the image, the entries appear to include a meeting at Owens-Corning about a dust technique for air analysis, and items on an acetyl benzene unit and residues. The writer is not…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1963
Handwritten Daily Calendar Notes on Radiation Source Checks, Dust Sampling and AIHA, with Atmospheric Dust Table (1963)
…of Tank 1087, radiation sources, dust analysis and sampling techniques, a meeting with Bob Estep of Owens Corning, and a trip to AIHA. A fourth page is a typed table of atmospheric dust concentration test data.
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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 · Motley 1000 · April 30, 1969
Naval Ship Engineering Center to Ingalls Shipbuilding on Shipyard Asbestos Hazards, with Ingalls' Reply (1969)
…insulation workers. Its table lists Johns-Manville, Owens-Corning, Pittsburgh Corning and other products, with no alternative material shown for most of them and several entries reading "No precautions" or "No Safety Precautions." Ingalls' recommendations, including…
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Company document · 1962
Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)
…and density. Asbestos lines include calcium silicate "reinforced with a small amount of asbestos fibers" (Johns-Manville's Thermobestos, Owens-Corning's Kaylo, Pabco's Caltemp and others), Pittsburgh Corning's Unibestos No. 1200, Air Cell…
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Patent · July 1, 1969
Heat-curable,heat stable organosilicon elastomeric compositions of high strength and low elongation (US Patent 3,453,228, 1969)
…It was assigned to Dow Corning Corp. The patent's description opens: This invention relates to a composition consisting essentially of (a) a mixture of parts by weight of a polyorganosiloxane in which the organic substituents…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Mesothelial tumors and exposure to asbestos dust
The author, a hospital pathologist in Liverpool, England, re-examined 30 cases of cancer of the chest or abdominal lining from Liverpool and the Merseyside area, covering ten years from 1953. All had at some point been suggested to be diffuse…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Diffuse mesothelioma and exposure to asbestos dust in the Merseyside area
This 1964 report described 17 people with diffuse mesothelioma (16 pleural, one peritoneal) in Merseyside, England. Most cases came from Liverpool cancer and thoracic surgery records for 1955 to 1963. The author re-examined tissue, took work…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 11, 1968
Union Carbide Thermal Insulation Manual, Volume I (Specifications), with Transmittal Memoranda from W. G. Hammar to Manual Holders (1968)
The exhibit is a 300-page set. It opens with three transmittal memoranda (October 1968, October 1967, July 1967) sending revised pages for Union Carbide's Thermal Insulation Manual, Volume I (Specifications). It then reproduces manual…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 12, 1965
Compilation of Union Carbide Asbestos Toxicology Statements, Memos and Press Clippings, Including T. J. Hall's Memo to Sales Staff on the Asbestos Toxicology Report (1963-1970)
A 31-page set of Union Carbide papers on the health effects of asbestos. It opens with a January 1965 memo from T. J. Hall sending sales staff Dr. Dernehl's Asbestos Toxicology Report for use…
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Patent · January 19, 1960
Acoustical composition (US Patent 2,921,862, 1960)
Glenn Sucetti received US Patent No. 2,921,862 on January 19, 1960, filed August 14, 1957. The patent's description opens: This invention relates to compositions which have useful acoustical properties.