Charge against earnings for asbestos related payments.

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- Definition

Represents accrual of asbestos related liability.

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- Definition

Amount of cash payments per claim disposed including legal costs.

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- Definition

The approximate aggregate number of plaintiffs and claimants settled, dismissed and otherwise disposed of, as of the balance sheet date.

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- Definition

Represents the period of time for claims to be reported as estimated by the reporting entity. This period of time serves as an estimate during an annual comprehensive legal review of the reporting entity's accrued liability.

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This element represents the approximate number of asbestos claims of the plaintiffs and claimants which were disposed in the period.

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- Definition

This element represents the approximate number of asbestos claims of the plaintiffs and claimants which were filed in the period.

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- Definition

The approximate amount of plaintiffs and claimants in asbestos lawsuits and claims in which the entity is a named defendant.

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- Definition

The average indemnity payment per disposed claim.

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- Definition

Payments for Asbestos-Related Liabilities.

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- Definition

The approximate percentage of all the asbestos-related plaintiffs and claimants for which the entity is a named defendant.

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- Definition

The approximate amount of previous sales of goods containing asbestos.

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- Definition

Carrying amount as of the balance sheet date of reserves for the costs of settling insured claims and costs incurred in the claims settlement process attributable to asbestos and environmental claims, before estimated recoveries from reinsurers.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 944
-SubTopic 40
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Reflects the estimated amount of loss from the specified contingency as of the balance sheet date.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 450
-SubTopic 20
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Contingencies - Asbestos (Details)	12 Months Ended
Contingencies - Asbestos (Details)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($) item	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($) item plaintiff	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($) item	Dec. 31, 2014 item	Dec. 31, 1993 USD ($)
Asbestos
Sale of goods containing asbestos from 1948 to 1958	$ 40,000,000
Number of pending plaintiffs and claimants \| item	1,330	1,400	2,080	2,260
Approximate number of claims disposed of to date \| plaintiff		399,000
Average indemnity payment per claim		$ 9,600
Payments for Asbestos-Related Liabilities	$ 110,000,000	125,000,000	$ 138,000,000
Cash payments per claim disposed including legal costs	$ 83,000	71,000	95,000
Asbestos-related liability, total amount accrued beginning in 1993 through 2016 before insurance recoveries		4,900,000,000			$ 975,000,000
Number of years, estimate of accrued liability	10 years
Accrual of asbestos related liability	$ 582,000,000	692,000,000
Asbestos related charges	$ 0	$ 0	$ 16,000,000
Approximate number of plaintiffs and claimants asbestos claims pending against the entity
Disposed (in number of litigants) \| item	1,320	1,750	1,460
Filed (in number of litigants) \| item	1,250	1,070	1,280
Maximum
Asbestos
Loss contingency, plaintiffs damages	$ 725,000,000
Damages unspecified or sufficient to invoke jurisdictional minimum
Asbestos
Percentage of asbestos plaintiffs, approximate percentage		89.00%
Damages of $15 million or less
Asbestos
Percentage of asbestos plaintiffs, approximate percentage		8.00%
Damages of $15 million or less \| Minimum
Asbestos
Loss contingency, plaintiffs damages		$ 15,000,000
Damages greater than $15 million but less than $100 million
Asbestos
Percentage of asbestos plaintiffs, approximate percentage		3.00%
Damages greater than $15 million but less than $100 million \| Minimum
Asbestos
Loss contingency, plaintiffs damages		$ 15,000,000
Damages greater than $15 million but less than $100 million \| Maximum
Asbestos
Loss contingency, plaintiffs damages		$ 100,000,000