California Division of Industrial Safety Accident Prevention Report and Dust Survey Memo on the Union Carbide Asbestos Mill, King City (1971)

A November 30, 1971 Accident Prevention Report from the California Division of Industrial Safety to the Union Carbide King City asbestos mill manager, based on an October 5, 1971 survey. It cites bagging-area fiber counts as high as eight times the TLV and calls for local exhaust ventilation or air-supplied hoods. It is attached to an October 21, 1971 internal state memo with the fiber-count table and recommendations, and to a fourth page of tabular data.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Accident Prevention Report, Division of Industrial Safety, to Union Carbide King City, dated Nov. 30, 1971 (bagging area requirement)
• Page 2: State memo of Oct. 21, 1971, Van Sandt to McCune, with Oct. 5, 1971 fiber-count table by mill location
• Page 3: Second page of the memo: comments on bagging-area dust, respirator use, ventilation recommendations and consultants; signed by an Environmental Engineering Unit engineer
• Page 4: Page of tabular data, rotated and illegible in OCR

People and organizations

From Frank Warren (Senior Safety Engineer, Industrial Section, Division of Industrial Safety); T. E. Davies (Safety Engineer who made the 10-5-71 survey); W. Van Sandt (DIS-SF, Department of Industrial Relations (memo of Oct. 21, 1971)) to Larry Larrison (Manager, Union Carbide, King City); L. McCune (DIS-SF (recipient of the Oct. 21, 1971 memo)).

• Frank Warren (author)
• Larry Larrison (recipient)
• State of California (its organization)
• Division of Industrial Safety (named)
• State of California Human Relations Agency (named)
• U. S. Department of Health Service (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Fiber Counting · Threshold Limit Value (TLV).

About this copy

This is document UC-2452 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 4 pages. Production numbers UCC 015386 to UCC 015389.