Union Carbide documents

Internal memos, letters, sales call reports, price lists, test reports and correspondence that lawyers for asbestos victims collected from Union Carbide and used as trial exhibits. Union Carbide mined and sold Calidria chrysotile asbestos from its King City and Coalinga, California, operations from the early 1960s; these papers show what it sold, to whom, and what it knew. 5,238 documents are published here, each with its scanned pages and a catalog record.

Preview. These catalog records were drafted from the documents and have not yet been reviewed by a person.

By year

1909 (1) · 1926 (1) · 1930 (1) · 1931 (1) · 1932 (2) · 1933 (3) · 1935 (4) · 1938 (5) · 1939 (1) · 1940 (2) · 1943 (2) · 1945 (2) · 1946 (1) · 1947 (1) · 1949 (2) · 1950 (1) · 1951 (4) · 1952 (2) · 1953 (2) · 1954 (3) · 1955 (5) · 1956 (11) · 1957 (5) · 1958 (6) · 1959 (11) · 1960 (8) · 1961 (3) · 1962 (28) · 1963 (62) · 1964 (34) · 1965 (23) · 1966 (37) · 1967 (70) · 1968 (92) · 1969 (100) · 1970 (65) · 1971 (148) · 1972 (236) · 1973 (255) · 1974 (235) · 1975 (288) · 1976 (200) · 1977 (223) · 1978 (198) · 1979 (347) · 1980 (265) · 1981 (145) · 1982 (166) · 1983 (175) · 1984 (225) · 1985 (144) · 1986 (211) · 1987 (260) · 1988 (34) · 1989 (36) · 1990 (38) · 1991 (17) · 1992 (18) · 1993 (9) · 1994 (4) · 1995 (8) · 1996 (7) · 1997 (7) · 1998 (8) · 1999 (8) · 2000 (18) · 2001 (42) · 2002 (10) · 2003 (5)

And 647 undated documents.

About the documents

The documents come from two numbered exhibit series: the "UC" series (UC-0 to UC-5490) and a second series numbered "Union Carbide 1" onward, of which we have the first box. A number is the exhibit's, not ours; the same document sometimes appears under more than one number, and each page says so. Documents that name workers' medical records or other private details are held back until we have reviewed them. A journal article, someone else's to publish, has its catalog record and a link to the article, not its pages.