Selikoff: Appearance Before Senate Subcommittee (1970)

This document is not a research study. It is a Johns-Manville Corporation internal memorandum dated May 6, 1970, recapping Dr. Irving J. Selikoff's appearance before a Senate labor subcommittee hearing on occupational safety and health legislation. A hearing transcript follows, badly damaged by scanning. The memo reported that Selikoff came with insulation workers' union officials and that Johns-Manville counsel Sabourin sat at the witness table. It said Selikoff praised the company's role, said industry was not to blame, and did not mention threshold levels. In the transcript, Selikoff described following union insulation workers in New York and Newark who were members on January 1, 1943. Selikoff reported 32 asbestosis deaths among 405 total deaths in this group up to the time of testimony. For data collected through an earlier cutoff date that cannot be read in the scan, 346 men had died where 251 deaths would have been expected had their experience matched all other U.S. males. Of almost 400 insulation workers examined more than 20 years after starting work, more than half had abnormal X-rays of asbestosis. Sabourin endorsed stringent controls. Some key figures cannot be read.

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From J-M's medical library

This copy comes from the Johns-Manville medical library. It was among the papers J-M kept in its medical library without an index entry.