M. Wayne Bosserman's Industrial Hygiene Monitoring Reports on Asbestos Insulation Removal at the Sistersville Plant (1984)

Set of industrial hygiene monitoring reports from Union Carbide's Sistersville Plant on airborne asbestos fiber exposure during removal of old insulation in the Steam Plant on May 9, 1984, and in contractor cleanup of insulators' trailers on May 23, 1984. The June 28, 1984 summary reported 0.13 fibers/cc and less than 0.11 fibers/cc for the two insulators, against a stated permissible limit of 2 fibers/cc, with full protective clothing and air-supplied respirators.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Industrial Hygiene Monitoring summary, June 28, 1984, on two Maintenance Department insulators (samples May 9, 1984), with a handwritten routing note and the exhibit stamp
• Page 2: Personal Monitoring Report for one insulator (name not shown): 0.13 fibers/cc over 1.67 hours
• Page 3: Personal Monitoring Report for the second insulator (name not shown): less than 0.11 fibers/cc over 1.68 hours
• Page 4: Second copy of the June 28, 1984 summary, without the exhibit stamp or handwriting
• Page 5: Industrial Hygiene Monitoring report on contractor employees (C. Brown) removing debris from the old insulators' trailers, May 23, 1984, less than 0.33 fibers/cc over 34 minutes

People and organizations

From M. Wayne Bosserman (Industrial hygiene, Sistersville Plant (signer of all reports)); H. G. Kuntz (Data and report by (with Bosserman)) to J. E. Boley, F. E. Dailey, J. E. Heilman, C. A. McNeill, W. V. Summers, K. E. Williams, G. W. Wulfert (copy-to list on the June 28, 1984 summary).

• M. Wayne Bosserman (author)
• H. G. Kuntz (author)
• Sistersville Plant (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Kemron Environmental Services (named)
• Maintenance Department (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos Exposure in Insulators and Insulation Workers · Industrial Hygiene · Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) · West Virginia Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-2927 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 5 pages. Production numbers UCC 016199 to UCC 016203.