J. E. Walsh Customer Call Reports on Anvil Paint, Largo, Florida, Regarding Calidria HPO Samples and Worker Resistance to Asbestos (1978-1981)

Four Customer Call Reports by salesman J. E. Walsh on calls to Anvil Paint (Largo, Florida), a maker of mobile-home roof coatings, about sampling Calidria HPO. They record the customer's use of non-fibrous talc (Nyad 2) and other substitutes, concerns about OSHA, and worker objections to using asbestos. A fifth page has no legible content in the OCR.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Call report, Anvil Paint, 8-2-78: HPO evaluated against International Talc #1; customer chose a wollastonite material because of problems with the local OSHA inspector; follow-up: drop.
• Page 2: Call report, Anvil Paint, 7-22-81: customer had not touched the HPO bag sample and cited worker objections to the word asbestos; Nyad 2 supply discussed.
• Page 3: Call report, Anvil Paint, date unclear (OCR '27-8!'), HPO prospect: customer had switched from Vanderbilt fibrous talc to Nyad 2 after negative asbestos publicity and requested a lab sample of HPO.
• Page 4: Call report, Anvil Paint, 2-15-79: two plant workers refused to work with HPO because of the asbestos logo on the bags; follow-up: check health-issue climate once a year.
• Page 5: Nearly blank page; OCR shows only noise and no image was provided.

People and organizations

From J. E. Walsh (Salesman, Southern Region) to JRL, TPN, WCT, REB (copy recipients, shown by initials only), KC-FILE, NF-FILE (copies to).

• Jack E. Walsh (author)
• Metals Division (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Anvil Paint (named)
• OSHA (named)
• Vanderbilt (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Calidria · Florida Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · OSHA.

About this copy

This is document UC-335 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 5 pages.