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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 · Motley 1000 · February 27, 1937

    Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on Dr. Gardner's Asbestos Dust Experiments (1937–1940)

    …reaction, while longer fibers caused significant changes in guinea pig lungs, and Gardner concluded that the irritation from asbestos was "not chemical but mechanical in nature." In Johns-Manville's index Johns-Manville's legal department…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. 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…

  7. 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.

  8. 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…

  9. 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…

  10. 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…

  11. 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…

  12. Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · September 23, 1937

    Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson Enclosing Dr. Gardner's Report on Five Months of Asbestos Experiments (1937)

    …He said the absence of fibrosis was expected this early, since in his earlier experiment the reaction had appeared only after eighteen months, and that "It is too soon to speculate as to the significance of…

  13. 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…

  14. 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…

  15. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 14, 1935

    Vandiver Brown's Memorandum on the Illinois Dust Situation: Legislative and Legal Aspects (1935)

    …etc. This meant that the definition included pneumoconiosis, since the current thinking is that this injury is caused by a chemical or toxic reaction rather than a physical one. As a consequence of this ruling, insurance…

  16. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 5, 1957

    A. R. Fisher's President's Bulletin on External and Internal Aspects of Dust and Fume Abatement (1957)

    …and air pollution" showed the need for a solution "that safeguards our external position along with a practical solution for our own operations," and that managers should recognize "the potential cost of unfavorable reactions" from federal…

  17. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 12, 1953

    Arthur Elsenbast to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on an Industrial Hygiene Literature File (1953)

    …told Elsenbast of a hazard of diatomite he had not known. The memo says the article concerned the solubility of J-M's diatomite and its reactions with aluminum powder; it does not describe a hazard.