Quote – J.B. Jobe, Executive vice president of Johns-Manville Corporation, the largest asbestos mining company in the world.

To destroy or seriously cripple the asbestos industry in this country through hastily developed or unnecessarily severe regulations will benefit neither the employee, the industry, nor the country as a whole, and could quite possibly have serious economic, social, and other consequences both now and in the future.

OSHA hearings: “Standard For Exposure to Asbestos Dust, Proposed Rulemaking.”

Thursday, March 16, 1972
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