903 results for “General Electric”, page 45 of 46
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 9, 1944
Bell Asbestos Mines to Canadian Johns-Manville Enclosing Union and Company Briefs to the National War Labour Board (1944)
…Commission, and since the presentation of the union's brief, 28 workers have been forced to stop work because of their health. In general, insurance covers a portion of the wages lost, due to illness, but…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 12, 1979
C. G. Linke to John A. McKinney on J-M's Asbestos Positions and the Facts (1979)
…acting like the Wronged Woman and begin communicating and demonstrating what I believe to be your genuine concern for the general well-being and health of our own and our customers' employees and the general public."
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 22, 1968
C. W. Hite to N. J. Gray on C. B. Burnett's Dust Control Orders at the Senior Officers' Meeting (1968)
…Burnett at a Senior Officers' meeting. Burnett stated the following: (1) Environmental Control, General Plant Engineering, and Industrial Relations are not forceful enough in following standards, (2) No progress has been made regarding the use of…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 6, 1956
Dr. Daniel C. Braun to H. M. Jackson Sending Lung Cancer Literature for the Asbestos Textile Industry (1956)
…pulmonary asbestosis and is not merely a possible sequel of exposure to asbestos dust" and states that "claims for compensation will become of increasing frequency due to the general increase of carcinoma of the lung." Dr…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 29, 1963
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith and C. L. Sheckler at the J-M Industrial Relations Managers' Meeting (1963)
…mechanical exhaust systems, and general low grade health standards exists." Sheckler also stated that a major reason for industrial hygiene surveys is to have documented evidence for presentation to governmental agencies when required, as well as…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 17, 1961
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith's Industrial Health Talk at the J-M Management Information Session (1961)
…Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: During a presentation given on 10/17/61 to J-M General Headquarters and Division management personnel…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 30, 1980
Dr. Paul Kotin to J. A. McKinney on the Lack of a Corporate Asbestos Policy (1980)
…. Another grave aspect of the present predicament .is the general uncertainty and the depressing effect on morale that goes with our vacillation. And not less discouraging is the fact that in the absence of any firm…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 27, 1949
E. M. Fuller to the Building Products Division on Contract Insurance Coverage (1949)
…s General Attorney. With respect to product liability claims, if a customer claims subsequent to an installation that insulation caused injury or damage, the claim is to be referred to J-M's Insurance Manager, General…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · April 17, 1968
Frank H. Zimmerman of National Gypsum to C. L. Sheckler Opposing the Asbestos-Cement Health Safety Booklet (1968)
…distribution of the booklet. The reasons given are: 1) No risk has been shown to the general public from exposure to asbestos-cement products manufactured for use in the building and construction industry. 2) The proposed…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · September 29, 1975
H. B. Rhodes of Union Carbide on Asbestos Papers at the International Congress on Occupational Health (1975)
…particulate materials such as silica or talc. The Congress was attended by over 2,000 delegates. Rhodes reports that, in general, the Congress produced only one bombshell in the asbestos area, a paper by Dr. M…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 21, 1956
Industrial Hygiene Foundation, Proposed Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer in Asbestos Workers for the Asbestos Textile Institute (1956)
…is anticipated that the field work, analysis of the data and preparation of the report would take one year. Related documents Asbestos Textile Institute General Meeting Minutes Rejecting an Autopsy Study, with the Asbestosis Research Proposal…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 6, 1975
J. G. Cole's Memos to R. E. Sampson Transcribing CBC Reports on the Advocate Mine (1975)
…local medical school. Interviewees discussed the extremely dusty conditions at the mines and surrounding area, J-M non-disclosure practices regarding x-ray results and asbestos hazards in general, non-enforcement of respirator usage, and inadequate…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 15, 1944
Joan Ross, Survey of Female Employees in the Canadian Johns-Manville Textile Department (1944)
…ventilation; (2) fatigue; and (3) higher absentee rate among women in general as opposed to men. Ross notes that the dust situation in the Textile Department is worse than in any other department in the factory…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 12, 1961
Leon B. Horowitz's Report to A. W. Spedding on Dr. Kenneth Smith's Asbestosis and Cancer Talk at the Asbestos Textile Institute (June 1961)
…proportion to those that might normally be expected (that is, 50% more abdominal cancers than in the general population). Smith had also visited the U.S. Public Health Service to discuss a study which they proposed…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 2, 1947
Letters on the Sixth Saranac Symposium, with Its Compensation Program and Participant List (1947)
…Smith's letter shows that the doctor running J-M's clinic at its largest mine had general safety and accident duties rather than a focus on dust disease (compare his plan with Cartier to review…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 26, 1973
Robert W. Whitt to C. B. Allen on Waukegan Transite Pipe Dust Stations Over the TLV (1973)
…are these government shipments, too?" Related documents J-M General Engineering Report on the Waukegan Transite Pipe Dust System (1949) L. Seppala to Boyd Mulder on the Waukegan Medical Schedule (1960) Arthur J. Vorwald to J…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 12, 1975
Transcript of Dr. Kenneth W. Smith's Taped Message to Kent Wise on Who Decided What J-M Employees Were Told (1975)
…might have been seen. He was not considered competent by non-medical people in general headquarters at the New York office." This document was offered as an exhibit in the trial of Speake v. J-M.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 7, 1950
Vandiver Brown to J. P. Woodard on Dr. Vorwald's Aluminum Hydroxide Proposal and Publication Rights (1950)
…Dr. Gardner's undertaking proved ineffective because he let the matter dribble out at symposia or as paragraphs or footnotes in articles dealing with the general subject of pneumoconiosis." Related documents Saranac Laboratory, Proposal on Asbestosis…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Union Carbide Calidria Sales Files on Armstrong Cork Company: 1970 Call Report, 1977 California Asbestos Letter, 1978 Supply Papers, 1981 Call Report
…8, 1977, on California's Occupational Cancer Control Act reporting requirement Union Carbide-typed copy of California General Industry Safety Orders Section 5208, Asbestos (enclosure to the August 1977 letter) Handwritten 'Armstrong Cor Co.' label page
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 2003
Affidavit of John L. Myers in Support of Union Carbide's Motion for Summary Judgment, Kavanaugh v. AcandS, Inc., with Attached Toxicology Reports and Customer Literature (2003)
…February 18, 1972, requesting corporate approval of an interim toxicology report for general mailing Undated notice 'To Our Customers' signed by J. L. Myers listing literature available from the Niagara Falls office Start of Research and…