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J-M R&D Center, Sawing of Marinite 36A with a Black & Decker Circular Saw (1973)

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A one-page Johns-Manville internal memo of December 14, 1973, a memo from D. R. Christensen to P. L. Earle, both of J-M's Research and Development Center in Manville, New Jersey, with copies to D. E. Hillier and G. L. Swallow at headquarters. Prepared by K. J. Williams; the samples were taken December 11.

Author
D. R. Christensen
Published by
Johns-Manville
Date
December 14, 1973
Number
Bates S420-428
Library no.
ACL Doc 25549 · asbestosclaims.law/library/25549
Rights
From the Johns-Manville archive (file S420, industrial hygiene surveys and dust counts), produced in litigation (stamped "PRODUCED JM-83"). An internal company test report, republished for research and health-and-safety purposes.

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What it shows

The R&D Center cut ¾-inch Marinite 36A with a 9¼-inch Black & Decker portable circular saw, exhausting both the saw's hood and an open-face vacuum table under the sheet to a Spencer portable baghouse. The operator's samples were 2.2 and 1.8 fibers/cc against the 2.0 limit; area samples five feet away were 1.0 and 0.7.

It is one of a series of 1973–74 sawing tests at the R&D Center that tried to bring Marinite cutting under the new 2.0 fibers/cc limit; see Marinite for the series.

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D. R. Christensen. “J-M R&D Center, Sawing of Marinite 36A with a Black & Decker Circular Saw.” December 14, 1973. Bates S420-428. Johns-Manville. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 25549. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/25549.

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