903 results for “General Electric”, page 41 of 46
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Company document · WARD Documents · October 6, 1972
Johns-Manville's Reprint of the IARC Advisory Committee Report on Asbestos Cancers (1972)
…risk "greatest with crocidolite, less with amosite and apparently less with chrysotile." It also found "no evidence of a risk to the general public at present" from asbestos in the air, and no evidence of risk…
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Company document · WARD Documents · October 25, 1973
W. B. Reitze, OSHA Letter No. 22, on Not Circulating NIOSH's Asbestos Booklet to Employees (1973)
…workers, the idea that significant dust was carried home "is not true" because of J-M's dust collection. On the general public, the statement that people were "in grave danger" was "absolutely false." On deaths…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 9, 1938
Bronson Batchelor to Vandiver Brown on the Public Health Service Asbestosis Study (1938)
…nothing of its findings. Related documents Dreessen and Others, A Study of Asbestosis in the Asbestos Textile Industry (1938) Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service on Dust Standards (1930)
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 14, 1971
C. L. Hite to B. Mulder on Waukegan's Red Slip Cases and the Union (1971)
…Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: C.L. Hite (Waukegan) writes to B. Mulder (General Headquarters), dated 4/14/71, regarding Waukegan's handling of red slip cases…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 25, 1969
C. L. Sheckler to J. D. Anderson on Mass Workmen's Compensation Filings at Manville (1969)
…that the agenda for a first meeting to discuss this problem include a review of the number of cases in litigation, types of cases in general categories (such as traumatic and occupational disease), claims handling procedures…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 19, 1950
Dr. J. F. Knox of Turner Brothers Asbestos, Report to the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association on Pulmonary Cancer (1950)
…which carcinoma was associated with asbestosis. Knox points out the limitations of such small studies, and advocates clinical studies comparing cancer rates of those in the general population with those of asbestos workers as a group.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 30, 1957
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to F. M. Stumpf of Columbia Acoustics and Fireproofing on Asbestos Hazards (1957)
…Smith notes the general risk but represents that among 2,000 J-M workers handling in excess of 500,000 tons of asbestos annually: "We have developed no new cases of asbestosis for many years." Smith…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 5, 1959
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to H. G. Donovan on the Bonafide Plastics Company (1959)
…The next month Smith told General Motors and Firestone that long inhalation of asbestos may cause lung changes (Smith to General Motors and Firestone). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 17, 1979
Dr. Paul Kotin to F. L. Pundsack on Waukegan's Failure to Report Occupational Disease Cases to OSHA (1979)
…cases immediately to OSHA, along with an explanation for the failure to comply." Two days later J-M's associate general counsel recommended amending the logs without telling OSHA (Markusson's memo). Waukegan's handling of…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · June 17, 1943
Ernest Muehleck to W. W. F. Shepherd Enclosing Gardner's Letter on Tuberculosis and Cancer (1943)
…asbestosis made workers prone to tuberculosis, putting the high English rates down to "more general social-economic factors." He also told Brown he could not promise the final report before January 1944. The letter reached Turner …
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 12, 1939
H. B. Meller of the Air Hygiene Foundation to Sumner Simpson on the 1939 Dues (1939)
…Expresses appreciation for contribution to the Foundation whose goals are; protecting the health of workmen, and the general advancement of industrial health. Related documents W. H. Dunn to the Air Hygiene Foundation Paying 1939 Membership Dues…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 1, 1954
H. M. Jackson to T. R. Turnbull on Fiber Counts Above J-M's Limit at Waukegan (1954)
…Cement and Magnesia Departments, March 10-15. Jackson attaches copies of Travelers' analysis report. While in general the dust counts indicated good control, there are several sampling stations, particularly at the feeding operations, in which the…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · July 31, 1978
Hilton C. Lewinsohn and Harrison B. Rhodes on Medical Surveillance in the AIA Industry Statement (1978)
…M policy except in California. A handwritten change to the draft softened the line that the general public is not at risk to say the industry considers it not at risk. It follows Marsh's June…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · May 21, 1956
Industrial Hygiene Foundation Proposal for an Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer in Asbestos Workers (1956)
…reports on some lung cancer cases. The plan was to follow a group of workers through company and insurance records and compare their lung cancer rate with the general population's. It was sent with C…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · 1968
Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health List of Research Proposals Not Recommended for Support (1968)
…entitled "List of Proposals of Research Project Processed by IOEH but not Recommended for Support by Scientific Committee." Some research projects relate to the study of asbestos disease in the general population and in insulation workers…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 2, 1935
J. P. Kottcamp to S. A. Williams on Waukegan Dust Collecting Equipment (1935)
…the company knew describes this document as follows: J.P. Kottcamp (Waukegan) asks S.A. Williams (General Headquarters), in a memorandum dated 7/2/35, what to do about certain approved budget proposals for dust control…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 16, 1936
J. P. Kottcamp to Vandiver Brown on an Illinois Manufacturers' Meeting About the New Disease Law (1936)
…should be kept on the payroll regardless of the fact that he may later become an expense to the Company." He warned that a "general house cleaning" would cause labor trouble costing more than it saved…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 21, 1966
Joe Goldfield to A. C. Smith, Observations and Recommendations from a Trip to Turner Brothers (1966)
…E. Finderne) to A.C. Smith, H.Q. General Engineer, 3/21/66. The memorandum sets forth Goldfield's observations and recommendations based on a trip he had made to Turner Brothers Asbestos Company, Ltd. in…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · June 2, 1978
John H. Marsh to T. A. Dougherty and Others on an Industry-Wide Asbestos-Health Position (1978)
…said "Asbestos workers do not seem to be more susceptible to lung cancer than other people unless they smoke," that there was "by no means general agreement" about the role of crocidolite and amosite in mesothelioma…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1970
Johns-Manville, "History of Johns-Manville Health Research" (1970)
…air (see Jackson's 1951 request). It also reports that a University of Pittsburgh study of J-M retirees found some causes of death higher than in the general population, and that in the McGill study…