Union Carbide Call Reports and Letter on Sales of Asbestos Products to General Electric (1971-1979)

Seven pages of Union Carbide sales records concerning General Electric: call reports dated 1971, 1975 and 1979, a 1975 telecon report, and a 1976 cover letter. They record GE interest in Calidria pellets (SG-100, SG-200, SG-210) and RG-600 for phenolic, polypropylene and potting uses, and GE medical and industrial hygiene staff concerns about asbestos hazards.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-2: Call report by B. L. Ingalls, 7/19/71, on a visit with Dr. Paff, Asst. Medical Director, General Electric, Pittsfield, Mass., about SG-100 pellets and asbestos hazards
• Page 3: Call report by E. J. Kleber, 10/23/75, on a telecon with Marvin Wilson of General Electric, Louisville, about supplying RG-600 and health hazards
• Pages 4-5: Customer call report, 11/13/75, on an RG-600 seminar at GE Appliance Park, Louisville, and the GE medical department's resistance to asbestos
• Page 6: Letter, Edward J. Kleber to Dr. J. Merle Nielsen of General Electric, 2/18/76, enclosing a paper on detecting chrysotile in airborne dust from thermosetting resin grinding
• Page 7: Call report by E. J. Kleber, 3/13/79, on a discussion with Charles Mulligan of General Electric, Louisville, about SG-200, SG-210 and RG-244

People and organizations

From B. L. Ingalls (Union Carbide sales representative (author of the 1971 call report)); E. J. Kleber (Sales Representative (author of the 1975 and 1979 call reports and the 1976 letter)) to R. T. Larkin (cc on the 1971 call report); T. P. Norris (cc on the 1971 call report); Dr. J. Merle Nielsen (Materials Engineer, Materials Information Services, Corporate Research & Development, General Electric Company (addressee of the 1976 letter)).

• Blair L. Ingalls (author)
• Edward J. Kleber (author)
• R. T. Larkin (copied)
• Tom P. Norris (copied)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• A. Schulman, Inc (named)
• General Electric (named)
• Metals Division (named)
• OSHA (named)
• SPE (named)
• SPI (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Calidria · California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Chrysotile: White Asbestos, the Most Common Type · Industrial Hygiene · Kentucky Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Massachusetts 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-545 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 7 pages.