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FILE NAME Allied Signal Bendix ASB DATE 0000 DOC ASB029 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Summary of Bendix Awareness of Connection Between Dusts and Pneumoconiosis Bendix Products Corporation Director of Personnel K. Selby was aware of the potential for dusts to cause pneumoconiosis and had employed the chest ray as a means of diagnosis In 1932 he wrote to Dr. Anthony Lanza at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company one of the leading experts on pneumoconiosis in the United States asking Lanza to review some workers rays and offer an opinion on whether they had silicosis Brake linings were a major market for asbestos by the 1930s and there appeared articles on asbestosis in brake manufacturing workers by Lanza and coworkers in 1935 Pennsylvania state authorities Fulton et al in 1935 and other authors reporting over 100 cases from Massachusetts in 1939-1940 Grinding of molded brake parts was recognized as capable of causing asbestosis by government authorities in Connecticut 1934 and Great Britain A General Motors industrial hygienist reported in were equipped with local exhaust dust Full references for these 1948 that brake lining and surfacing operations ventilation to protect workers from asbestos publications are provided in chapter 8 Asbestos Disease in Brake Repair Workers of my book Asbestos Modical and Legal Aspects