47 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 3
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Company document · 1943
Saranac Laboratory Letter to Owens-Illinois on Synthetic Insulation (1943)
…was introduced. The animal studies that followed confirmed in 1948 that Kaylo dust caused asbestosis. Owens-Illinois kept making and selling Kaylo without warnings, and Owens-Corning, which bought the product line in 1958, sold it…
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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What it shows To help Owens-Illinois plan a safety program, the report also drew on Saranac's unpublished asbestos experiments, which it said had been reported "to certain other supporting companies, but not as yet…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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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · April 26, 1999
Greenleaf v. Garlock, Inc. (1999)
…so judgment for the Greenleafs against Garlock and Owens Corning must be entered at the state amount. It also ordered a new trial on Garlock's and Owens Corning's crossclaims against the non-appearing defendants…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · November 23, 1994 · in the opinion
Adcock v. Brakegate, Ltd. (1994)
…Jayant W. Tambe, Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Chicago, for amicus curiae Owens-Illinois, Inc. Chief Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court: The plaintiff, Samuel Adcock, as executor of Hubert Adcock, Jr.'s estate, brought an…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · March 28, 2001 · in the opinion
Abadie v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. (2001)
…Fibreboard Corporation, Flexitallic, GAF Corporation/Ruberoid, Garlock, Johns Manville, National Gypsum Corporation, Owens Illinois, Rapid American, Rock Wool Manufacturing, Uniroyal, and UNR (UNARCO); for a total of 26 virile shares. We subtract two shares for Kelmell…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 16, 1948
Arthur J. Vorwald to U. E. Bowes on Kaylo Producing Asbestosis in Animals (1948)
…The same letter with its report is already published from Johns-Manville's chronology as Vorwald to Owens-Illinois on Kaylo causing asbestosis. In Johns-Manville's index Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · February 7, 1952
Arthur J. Vorwald to W. G. Hazard Sending the Final Kaylo Report (1952)
What it shows Vorwald told Owens-Illinois plainly that its product could cause asbestosis, and also offered to keep the product's name out of print and to send the manuscript "for review before being released…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · May 31, 1944
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes on Animal Tests of Hydrous Calcium Silicate (1944)
What it shows Gardner left it to Owens-Illinois to judge whether the samples matched the dust in the air of its plant, since the company was "in a better position than we to know." The…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · March 12, 1943
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes on Asbestos in the Synthetic Insulation (1943)
What it shows The letter shows that the asbestos in the material that became Kaylo was known to Owens-Illinois and to Saranac in 1943, before any animal tests, and that Saranac's first reaction was…
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Person · People and organizations
Arthur J. Vorwald
Director of the Saranac Laboratory, 1948–1952; reported to Owens-Illinois that its Kaylo insulation produced asbestosis in animals, corresponded with Johns-Manville on asbestosis studies, and proposed asbestos lung-cancer research to the Quebec Asbestos…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 27, 1944
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes Proposing an Inhalation Study of K-Lo Dust (1944)
…Gardner wrote that he hoped the results would be such that Owens-Illinois "might wish to have us publish our findings but it is understood that nothing will be published without your authorization." He also proposed…
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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 · Motley 1000 · October 30, 1948
Saranac Laboratory, Interim Report on the Biological Activity of Kaylo Dust (1948)
A nine-page interim report of October 30, 1948, to the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, submitted by Dr. Arthur J. Vorwald of the Saranac Laboratory with Philip C. Pratt, Thomas M. Durkan and Anthony B. Delahant…
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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 · Motley 1000 · December 18, 1950
Arthur J. Vorwald to W. G. Hazard on Waiting for the Final Kaylo Report (1950)
…director of the Saranac Laboratory, to W. G. Hazard of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, answering his letter of December 12. On the planned brochure about Kaylo dust, Vorwald thought it "advisable to wait until all…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · June 1, 1950
Arthur J. Vorwald to W. G. Hazard on X-Ray Readings and Kaylo Findings (1950)
…G. Hazard of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company's Industrial Relations Division. Vorwald agreed to put Saranac's reading of chest X-rays of Owens-Illinois employees on a contract basis, at $4.00 per case…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · February 23, 1943
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes on First Tests of the Calcium Silicate Samples (1943)
…to U. E. Bowes of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, written the day the calcium silicate samples arrived. Gardner said he "would suspect that they might be a source of respiratory difficulty" but needed more information…
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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)