John L. Myers to Distribution List Transmitting Union Carbide Testimony on Spraying of Asbestos-Containing Materials, California Standards Board Hearing, with Enclosures (1978)

Cover letters dated November 21, 1978 from Marketing Manager John L. Myers sent copies of Union Carbide's oral and supplemental testimony to the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board. The testimony concerned SB-1591 and the spraying of asbestos-containing products with wetted and encapsulated fibers. The package includes Dr. Harrison Rhodes's November 8, 1978 oral presentation, sandblasting and spray-test exposure data, a California Department of Health report, a January 1978 Rhodes letter and test protocol, H. B. Fuller's response to an EPA proposal, and a 1976 Rhodes memo on a Denver drywall OSHA citation.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-2: Cover letter, J. L. Myers to distribution list, Nov. 21, 1978, enclosing Rhodes oral testimony and additional testimony; distribution list on p. 2
• Pages 3-4: Second Myers cover letter, Nov. 21, 1978, on additional testimony for SB-1591 hearing, listing three enclosures; continuation of distribution list
• Pages 5-8: Oral presentation by Harrison Rhodes, Union Carbide, to the Cal. OSH Standards Board, Nov. 8, 1978
• Pages 9-13: Union Carbide supplemental information: Cal/OSHA and Union Carbide sandblasting comparison, with comparison table
• Page 14: Letter from Jerome A. Lackner, M.D., Director of Health, to Assemblyman Jack R. Fenton transmitting exposure report (OCR poor)
• Pages 15-17: California Department of Health report of employee exposure to asbestos during destruction of spray coatings, May 1977, with summary table
• Pages 18-23: Union Carbide report, Airborne Asbestos Counts for Textured Coatings of America (Corona, CA, sampled Dec. 17, 1976; reported Apr. 1, 1977), with Table 1 and Figure 1
• Pages 24-27: Letter, H. B. Rhodes to James Heacock, Cal. Dept. of Health, Jan. 13, 1978, with proposed sandblasting test protocol
• Pages 28-30: Union Carbide supplemental information: summary of airborne fiber concentrations from spraying of mastics (chart and table)
• Pages 31-36: Response of the H. B. Fuller Company to proposed EPA asbestos emission standards, Apr. 29, 1977, with cover letter
• Pages 37-40: Stewart-Todd Associates, evaluation of airborne asbestos exposure from H. B. Fuller weather-barrier mastics, May 1977 (title page, contents, introduction, start of summary)
• Pages 164-165: Pages 3-4 of the Rhodes oral presentation (repeat of pages 7-8)
• Pages 166-167: Memo, H. B. Rhodes to J. L. Myers, Nov. 30, 1976, Status of Denver Drywall Asbestos Problem
• Page 168: Blank or no text

People and organizations

From John L. Myers (Marketing Manager) to Attached distribution list (industry, trade association and California government contacts).

• John L. Myers (author)
• Metals Division (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Associated Roofing Contractors of the Bay Area Counties, Inc (named)
• Calaveras Asbestos Ltd (named)
• California State Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (named)
• Carboline Company (named)
• Chevron Research Company (named)
• Flintkote (named)
• General Motors (named)
• H. B. Fuller Company (named)
• Johns-Manville (named)
• Mortell Company (named)
• Riverside Cement (named)
• Standard Brands Paint (named)
• Supradur Manufacturing Corporation (named)
• Texas Refinery (named)
• Textured Coatings of America (named)
• The W. W. Henry Company (named)
• W.R. Grace (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos Exposure in Drywall Finishers, Plasterers, and Painters · California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Johns-Manville · New York Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · W.R. Grace.

About this copy

This is document UC-3896 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 168 pages. Production numbers A08387 to UCC 014026.