J. W. Reeder to D. B. Wingerter on Which Waukegan Asbestos Products Need OSHA Labels (1972)

A two-page memo of July 25, 1972, from J. W. Reeder of J-M's Industrial Products Division at Waukegan to D. B. Wingerter in Denver, "New OSHA Regulations," answering Wingerter's letter of July 17. Following Wingerter's guidelines, Reeder listed the Waukegan products that would need labels as shipped: "non-locked in" asbestos products (asbestos papers, tapes, rollboard, millboard, Superex blocks, #352 cement and cut gaskets) and "locked-in" products "designed for further processing or handling and are capable of producing asbestos fiber levels in excess of the published limits," chiefly semi-finished friction materials such as coil lining, brake block slab stocks and undrilled friction material. "The estimated added cost due to these changes is $2,000 annually."

What it shows

The memo shows J-M sorting its Waukegan line into products that must carry the caution label required by the new federal asbestos standard of June 1972 and products that need not. A month earlier the packing and friction materials division had reported that it had labeled none of its products so far (Wingerter to Jackson). Copies went to W. B. Reitze and others.