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Manual of Hazards to Health From Chemicals Used at the Plants and Laboratories of Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp., First Edition, with Foreword by Henry F. Smyth Jr. (1949)

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Excerpt from the first edition of a manual on health hazards of chemicals used at Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. plants and laboratories, copyrighted 1949. It includes the title page, a foreword by Henry F. Smyth Jr. describing the manual's purpose and limits, a key of symbols for relative hazard, and a table page of hazard ratings for chemicals beginning with V (vanadium through vinyl methyl ether).

Author
Henry F. Smyth, Jr. (Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh 13, Penna. (signs the foreword as 'the undersigned')); Medical Department, C & C C C (co-preparer); Industrial Toxicology Department, U.C.C. (co-preparer); Works Laboratory, C & C C C, South Charleston (co-preparer); Chemical Hygiene Fellowship, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. (co-preparer)
Published by
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. (Union Carbide)
Series
Union Carbide documents, UC-5219
Date
May 1, 1949
Number
Bates UCC 100487 to UCC100487-4
Library no.
ACL Doc 19700 · asbestosclaims.law/library/19700
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From Henry F. Smyth, Jr. (Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh 13, Penna. (signs the foreword as 'the undersigned')); Medical Department, C & C C C (co-preparer); Industrial Toxicology Department, U.C.C. (co-preparer); Works Laboratory, C & C C C, South Charleston (co-preparer); Chemical Hygiene Fellowship, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. (co-preparer).

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This is document UC-5219 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 5 pages. Production numbers UCC 100487 to UCC100487-4.

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Henry F. Smyth, Jr. (Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh 13, Penna. (signs the foreword as 'the undersigned')), Medical Department, C & C C C (co-preparer), Industrial Toxicology Department, U.C.C. (co-preparer), Works Laboratory, C & C C C, South Charleston (co-preparer), Chemical Hygiene Fellowship, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. (co-preparer). “Manual of Hazards to Health From Chemicals Used at the Plants and Laboratories of Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp., First Edition, with Foreword by Henry F. Smyth Jr.” May 1, 1949. Union Carbide documents, UC-5219, Bates UCC 100487 to UCC100487-4. Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. (Union Carbide). AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 19700. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/19700.

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