6 results for “General Electric”
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Government report · 1981
The Attorney General's Asbestos Liability Report to the Congress (1981)
Excerpt from the Attorney General's report to Congress of September 21, 1981, written under the Asbestos School Hazard Detection and Control Act of 1980. It weighed whether the government could recover the cost of school…
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Government report · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1930
Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service on Dust Standards (1930)
Two pages from the Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service for the fiscal year 1930: the title page and page 49, from the section on industrial hygiene. Reporting on…
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Government report · 1939
Annual Report of the Surgeon General, U.S. Navy, Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, to the Secretary of the Navy Concerning Statistics of Diseases and Injuries in the United States Navy for the Calendar Year 1939
Excerpt from the US Navy Surgeon General's annual report for calendar year 1939: the title page and about four pages (roughly pp. 22-25) of the section on hygienic and sanitary conditions afloat and ashore…
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Government report · 1995
Toxicological Profile for Asbestos (1995)
…studies of inhalation, oral and dermal exposure, including cancer. Later chapters cover the six asbestos minerals, facilities that made or processed asbestos, releases to the environment, typical general-population and occupational exposures, testing methods, and regulations.
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Government report · JM Document Review · September 18, 1942
Industrial Health Survey of the South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation and the Todd-Bath Iron Works (1942)
What it shows The general recommendations say that "as in other yards," supervision of the departments handling asbestos pipe and breeching coverings was inadequate, and that "Asbestos dust is dangerous to breathe, but the work can…
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Government report · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1938
Dreessen and Others, A Study of Asbestosis in the Asbestos Textile Industry (1938)
…study of textile industry proposes tentative safe standard of 5 mppcf. Notes vast recent improvements by industry. Related documents Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service on Dust Standards (1930)