J. David McMahon, Maintenance Facilities Team: Maintenance Facilities Survey of the Brownsville Plant (1975)

Report of a November 1975 survey of the maintenance shops and facilities at the Brownsville Plant, prepared by the Maintenance Facilities Team (J. David McMahon). It gives recommendations on shop utilization, personnel facilities, storage and housekeeping, building-by-building descriptions, shop detail charts, and a questionnaire summary of maintenance supervisors and engineers (Union Carbide and Brown & Root). Building descriptions list asbestos wall and ceiling construction in several shops.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-2: Cover and title page, Maintenance Facilities, Brownsville Plant, November 1975
• Pages 3-4: Survey results summary and five recommendations
• Page 5: Table of contents/introduction to the compilation
• Pages 6-7: Narrative summary of Central, Field and Zone Shops
• Pages 8-11: Major maintenance shops charts (poorly legible OCR, upside-down or rotated pages)
• Pages 12-28: Maintenance facilities descriptions by building (construction, function, personnel facilities, inadequacies)
• Pages 29-33: Maintenance shop details charts: heating, ventilation, lighting, insulation, utilities, material handling (rotated, OCR largely garbled)
• Pages 34-38: Maintenance Survey Questionnaire Summary, facilities section (Bonner & Moore Associates)

People and organizations

From J. David McMahon (Maintenance Facilities Team).

• J. David McMahon (author)
• Brownsville Plant (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Bonner & Moore Associates (named)
• Brown & Root (named)
• Maintenance Operations Team (named)

Related pages

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

About this copy

This is document UC-1306 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 38 pages. Production numbers DE 005127 to DE 005164.