C. A. Gorrell to Maintenance First Line Supervisors on Mandatory Asbestos Hazard Training, with Sistersville Plant Asbestos Script, Slides and MSA Respirator Statement (1984)

A November 29, 1984 memo from C. A. Gorrell told maintenance first-line supervisors that an asbestos hazards program was mandatory and had to be presented to their work groups before January 1, 1985. The exhibit also holds typed and handwritten drafts of the Sistersville Plant asbestos script and slide narration, which cover OSHA exposure limits, medical exams, handling and disposal practices, respirators, and warning signs and bag labels. A final page reproduces an MSA statement on high-efficiency respirator filters for asbestos.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Memo from C. A. Gorrell, Nov. 29, 1984, to maintenance first line supervisors on mandatory asbestos training (WV-0236 #29)
• Page 2: Typed 'ASBESTOS' script page with handwritten note about a final copy, slide numbers and delivery of the script and slides on 11/13 (WV-0236 #30)
• Pages 3-6: Typed script 'ASBESTOS' for the Sistersville Plant: OSHA limits, EPA notice, medical exams, safe handling practices, monitoring
• Pages 7-17: Handwritten draft or notes of the asbestos script, with a photograph list on pages 7-8; largely illegible in OCR
• Pages 18-21: Slide program draft 'ASBESTOS' (slides 1-13 and following) with handwritten edits, covering health hazards, lung effects and asbestosis
• Pages 22-30: Typed slide program narration with handwritten edits (slides on hazards, lung effects, OSHA limits, medical exams, respirators, clothing, waste bags, housekeeping)
• Page 31: Handwritten note on cleanup methods (sweeper, ground cloth, dirty room, vacuum)
• Page 32: Reproduced MSA statement on use of high-efficiency respirators for airborne asbestos fibers, signed by Wayde B. Miller, Jr., dated MSA 7-20-84

People and organizations

From C. A. Gorrell (Maintenance Department, Silicones and Urethane Intermediates, Sistersville, WV (title not shown)) to All Maintenance First Line Supervisors (memo addressees); W. V. Summers (copy recipient); G. W. Wulfert (copy recipient).

• C. A. Gorrell (author)
• W. V. Summers, Jr. (copied)
• George W. Wulfert (copied)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• EPA (named)
• M.S.A (named)
• Maintenance Department (named)
• OSHA (named)

Related pages

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

About this copy

This is document UC-2961 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 32 pages. Production numbers UCC 016330 to UCC 016361.