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FILE NAME: Philip Carey (PC) DATE: 0000 DOC#: PC052 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: BC Book Excerpt Company Knowledge I 5 0 7 ----- PHILIP CAREY MANUFACTURING COMPANY (later Celotex, ftnacon, Jim Walter Corp.) The Philip Carey C om pany of C incinnati, O h io , boasted that it had been supplying asbestos and asbestos products for over 50 years in an ad appearing in Asbestos, in M arch, 1930 (this issue also carried an article about asbestosis). C arey got into the insulation contracting business as w ell. Publicity over as bestosis am ong Carey's Q uebec m ine em ployees led to a historic asbestos strike in the Province. (See "Companies M ining Asbestos in Quebec, C anada," th is chapter.) The follow ing docum entation relates d irectly to Carey: 1. Heating and Ventilating magazine, June, 1944. Contained an article by Hutchinson ("Dust as an Industrial Health Hazard") noting the asbestosis hazard to insulation workers and others; also an advertisement by Philip Carey Manufacturing Company for all-asbestos "Careyduct. (See 'Trade Journals," in Chapter 10.) 2. In late 1944, a Carey plant worker in Ohio died, and Dr. Robert Ritterhoff diagnosed asbestosis at autopsy. This was patholog ically confirmed by Dr. Gardner at the Saranac Laboratory. When Gardner requested details about the man's exposure to dusts, Ritterhoff replied that the company had been "uncooperative." He explained, 'They have not permitted me to visit the plant, nor have they given in detail his occupational history." (letter dated Dec. 23,1944) Dr. Ritterhoff eventually did visit the company and discuss this case with a company official. "The purpose of the visit was to tell someone at Philip Carey that their employee, Mr. Scobie, died of asbestosis," Dr. Ritterhoff recalls. He was in formed by his co-worker. Dr. John Skavlem, that the company , had "privately" compensated Mr. Scobie's widow. (Deposition of Dr. Ritterhoff, State of Maryland v. Keene Corp. et al.. Civ. -No. 1108600. Circuit Court Anne Arundel Co., MD, taken Jan. 30, 1986; and Vorwald Patient File No. P-44-326, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC.) 3. Following the death of Carey employee Len R. Hope in 1953, a workers' compensation claim was filed in Ohio by his widow. This went through various appeals and was ultimately resolved ! \ r ' M -T' --.'t I vnch's report in 1956, to the effect 1508 Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects " __ that the.man's death was Caused by asbestosis. Com pensation ^ was awarded on Jan. 24, 1957 (Len Hope file from archives of K.M. Lynch, Ohio Industrial Commission No. OD 79998). 4. Contracting Division Compensation Claims by Insulation Workers. Carey was named as a defendant in claims brought by Swartout, Riley, Strethorst, Gilivich, and Onofrio, w ith notice to Carey dated from 1956-1963 (see "Claims by Insulators against Contracting Divisions of Asbestos Product M anufacturers," in Chapter 3); and Latto in 1961-1962. (See 'T h e M ancuso Docu ments," in Chapter 3.) 5. Carey was named as a defendant in 1961 in the product liability suit brought against insulation manufacturers by G. Fadane. (See "Lawsuits by Product Users Against Asbestos Manufac turers," in Chapter 3.) 6. The Mancuso Documents, 1962-1963 At the direction of actuaries, Carey hired Dr. Thom as M ancuso as Consulting Medical Director for the entire company. M ancuso reported directly to top management about the urgent need for measures to protect employees, customers for Carey asbestos products, and neighbors of Carey fadlities exposed to asbestos air pollution. (See "The Mancuso Documents," in Chapter 3.) ASBESTOS CORPORATION LIMITED (ACL) This com pany was nationalized w ithin the last few years and incorporated into the Q uebec government com pany, Socit N ationale de l'A m iante. A dust survey of the firm 's K ing m ine and m ill was conducted in 1944 by M etropolitan Life In su rance Com pany, and the brief report of the findings was on file (D ocum ent No. 1178) at the Institute of O ccupational and E n v iron m en tal Health, in M ontreal (I.O .E.H . was a part of the Q uebec Asbestos M ining A ssodation until its library w as m erged into the Canadian A sbestos Inform ation Centre in 1982). T he report notes that a sim ilar survey had been conducted in 1930.