Union Carbide Report on Airborne Asbestos Dust Counts at Conwed Corporation, Cloquet, Minnesota, with Consent Letter and Handwritten Count Sheets (1972)

Report of microscope fiber counts on air samples collected at Conwed Corporation's Cloquet, Minnesota plant on August 9-10, 1972, with the apparatus and procedure and a summary table of asbestos fiber, total fiber and total dust counts by plant area. The exhibit also includes a September 1, 1972 Union Carbide letter asking Conwed's permission to use the test data without identifying the facility, and handwritten sample and count sheets.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-2: Cover page and text of 'Airborne Dust Counts for Conwed Corporation, Cloquet, Minnesota' (Aug. 28, 1972): personnel present, apparatus, procedure and definitions of test results
• Pages 3-4: Summary of dust counts by area (board and pulp mill, coating make-up, finishing, Tuflex, Conwed Fabrics, Lo-Tone): asbestos fiber, total fiber and total dust
• Page 5: Letter of September 1, 1972 from Union Carbide Customer Service Representative to Conwed asking permission to use test data without identifying the facility, with signed acceptance by Conwed's Director of Manufacturing-Cloquet
• Pages 6-24: Handwritten field sample lists and microscope count sheets for the Conwed dust sampling (largely illegible in OCR)

People and organizations

From E. J. Kleber (Customer Service Representative, Union Carbide Corporation) to Conwed Corporation, Cloquet, Minnesota.

• Edward J. Kleber (author)
• Mining and Metals Division (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Conwed Corporation (named)
• Leitz (named)
• Millipore (named)
• OSHA (named)
• Unico (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Air Sampling · Calidria · Fiber Counting · Minnesota Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · New York Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · OSHA.

About this copy

This is document UC-4486 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 24 pages. Production numbers X416888 to X416908.