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NARCO Knew of Duty to Warn 10/31/00 11:04 AM 1. Member, American Ceramic Society, 1933-1963 a. Individual executives held memberships beginning in 1930. b. Received Ceramics Abstracts in the mail, with summaries of latest industry and scientific articles on asbestos related diseases and safety precautions. 2. Member, Industrial Hygiene Foundation, 1943-1946 a. Colluded to create "standards" for asbestos exposure known as threshold limit values (TLVs). b. Received Industrial Hygiene Digest with information of industrial dust diseases, including asbestosis and lung disease. 3. Member, National Safety Council a. Access to annual National Safety Congresses with presentations on industrial dust diseases and warnings programs, including asbestosis and lung disease. b. Received Proceedings from National Safety Congresses c. Received monthly magazine National Safety News, with articles such as "Fumes and Dust Control," (Vol. 57, No. 2, 1948) 4. Member, Refractories Institute a. Received letter from the Refractories Institute dated July 18, 1978, reporting asbestos as a "Category One" carcinogen 5. Articles in the General Literature a. article on health hazards of asbestos in Newsweek in 1950 http://www.egilman.com/NARCO/narcoSOA.htm Page 1 of 2 NARCO Knew of Duty to Warn 10/31/00 11:04 AM 6. Cautionary labels on Eagle-Picher and Johns-Manville Bags a. According to their answers to interrogatories, NARCO received thousands of bags from Eagle-Picher and Johns-Manville with cautionary labels that warned of asbestos exposure. b. In June of 1964, NARCO received a letter from John P. Harrington of the Eagle-Picher Company, stating that they would be putting cautionary labels on cement products containing asbestos. This note asked if NARCO wanted Eagle-Picher to put the same label on the products they made for them. 7. OSHA and EPA Regulations a. In 1971, the EPA issued regulations banning all asbestos spray insulation with asbestos content over one percent, such as Narcolite Gun Spray Product 8. Information from Ohio State Inspectors a. In the 1940s, NARCO was inspected by officials from Ohio State Board of Workers Compensation for dust exposure http://www.egilman.com/NARCO/narcoSOA.htm Page 2 of 2