Kirk E. Martin to A. L. Welch on Asbestos Exposure Monitoring at Texas City, with Attached OSHA Appendix A and Related Correspondence (1987)

Compilation led by a January 26, 1987 memo in which Kirk E. Martin responded to a contractor's complaint that Union Carbide's Texas City laboratory air-sample results for asbestos were inaccurate, stating the results stood and citing the OSHA counting rules. It is followed by the attached Federal Register OSHA asbestos Appendix A, a Welch internal note, a Kimmins Industrial Service letter, and the A & A Insulation-Contractors letter of complaint.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Memo, Kirk E. Martin to A. L. Welch, Jan. 26, 1987, defending Texas City asbestos exposure monitoring results
• Pages 2-3: Federal Register excerpt (June 20, 1986), OSHA asbestos standard, Appendix A reference method and sampling/counting procedures
• Page 4: Internal correspondence, A. L. Welch, Jan. 21, 1987, asking for a response to A & A Insulation concerns about asbestos sampling at Number Two Olefins
• Page 5: Letter, Patrick R. Elliott, Kimmins Industrial Service Corp., to A. L. Welch, Jan. 15, 1987, forwarding A & A's letter
• Pages 6-7: Letter, A & A Insulation-Contractors, Inc. (signed MDA) to Pat Elliott at Kimmins, Jan. 14, 1987, disputing high fiber counts and requesting a retraction

People and organizations

From Kirk E. Martin, CIH (Health & Environmental Affairs, Solvents & Coatings Materials, Union Carbide, Texas City) to A. L. Welch; J. B. Leverton (copy recipient); A. P. Yalcinkaya (copy recipient).

• Kirk E. Martin (author)
• A. L. Welch (recipient)
• J. B. Leverton (copied)
• A. Perihan Yalcinkaya (copied)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• A & A Insulation-Contractors, Inc (named)
• American Industrial Hygiene Association (named)
• Kimmins Industrial Service Corporation (named)
• NIOSH (named)
• OSHA (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Air Sampling · NIOSH · OSHA · Texas Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-1097 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 7 pages. Production numbers UCTC 07680 to UCTC 07686.