J. E. Walsh and Other Call Reports on Alpha Chemical (Polyester Resins) and Its Use of Calidria RG-244 Asbestos (1973-1984)

Compilation of Union Carbide customer call reports, mostly by salesman J. E. Walsh, on Alpha Chemical Company, a polyester resin maker with plants in Colliersville, Tennessee and Lakeland, Florida. The reports cover Alpha's use of RG-244 asbestos as a thixotropic agent, price and carload discussions, OSHA and EPA concerns, dust sampling, and Alpha's decision in 1975 to stop using RG-244 at Colliersville. Many reports appear two or three times. The exhibit also includes a 1975 report on a different customer, Alpha Ink & Chemical Corp.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-2: Walsh call report, Alpha Chemical, Lakeland FL, 4-22-75: OSHA regulation after the Colliersville stop; medical exams and dust monitoring discussed
• Page 3: Walsh call report, Alpha Chemical, Colliersville TN, 10-10-74: RG-244 supply, price increase, carload pricing, OSHA concerns
• Page 4: Walsh call report, Alpha Chemical, Colliersville: dust sampler demonstration and one environmental air sample; date illegible in OCR
• Page 5: Walsh call report, Alpha Chemical, Colliersville, 4/5/74: 4/15 price increase, raw material shortages, OSHA inspection-warning bill
• Page 6: Walsh call report, Alpha Chemical, Colliersville, 1/15/74: growth in RG-244 use, OSHA impact, new purchasing agent
• Page 7: Walsh call report, Alpha Chemical, Colliersville, 7/7/73: objections to more RG-244 use, OSHA/EPA concerns, wetted 244 idea
• Page 8: Walsh call report, Alpha Chemical, Colliersville, dated 3/29/73 here: quality and toxicology objections, terrazzo and boat putty uses
• Page 9: Walsh call report, Alpha Chemical, Lakeland FL, 2/27/73: gel problem, rail siding, TV toxicology remark, dust survey
• Page 10: Repeat of the 4/5/74 report (page 5)
• Page 11: Walsh call report, Alpha Chemical, Colliersville, 6-26-75: dust sampling results at Lakeland, effort to get RG-244 into the Perris, CA plant
• Page 12: Repeat of the 10-10-74 report (page 3)
• Page 13: Repeat of the 1/15/74 report (page 6)
• Page 14: Repeat of the 7/7/73 report (page 7)
• Page 15: Repeat of the 2/27/73 report (page 9)
• Page 16: Repeat of the dust sampler report (page 4)
• Page 17: Repeat of the March 1973 report (page 8), dated 3/19/73 here
• Page 18: Walsh call report, Alpha Chemical, Colliersville, early 1975: carload stop-off, mask list, economics of RG-244 versus Cab-O-Sil
• Page 19: Walsh call report, Alpha Chemical, 6-17-75: dust sampling results within TLV, TWA formula discussed
• Page 20: Customer call report, Walsh, Alpha Chemical, Colliersville: new buildings, temporary injunction on silica, OSHA/EPA fears; date handwritten and unclear
• Pages 21-22: T. P. Norris customer call report, Alpha Chemical, 05/29/84: follow-up on RG-244 evaluation, Superfund listing of the Florida plant (two copies)
• Page 23: Partial page of a trip or call report covering Alpha Resins and Delta Industrial Coatings; Holtzendorf asked for an RG-244 sample for emulsified polyesters; undated
• Page 24: Customer call report, Walsh, Alpha Chemical, 3-1-77: four years of calls without increased RG-244 use, OSHA, silica restraining order
• Pages 25-26: Repeat of the 4-22-75 report (pages 1-2), with a RECEIVED May 2 1975 stamp
• Page 27: Repeat of the 3-1-77 call report (page 24)
• Pages 28-29: Another copy of the 4-22-75 report
• Page 30: G. L. Dickson call report, Alpha Ink & Chemical Corp., Carlstadt NJ, 10/2/75: decided not to switch to RG-244 because of OSHA concerns
• Page 31: Another copy of the customer call report on pages 20
• Page 32: Repeat of the 6-26-75 report (page 11)
• Page 33: Repeat of the 6-17-75 report (page 19)
• Pages 34-35: Another copy of the 4-22-75 report
• Page 36: Repeat of the early-1975 report (page 18), dated 1-30-75 and stamped February 1975

People and organizations

From J. E. Walsh (Union Carbide salesman (call report author)); T. P. Norris (salesman, Metals Division (author of the 05/29/84 call report)); G. L. Dickson (author of the 10/2/75 call report on Alpha Ink & Chemical Corp.) to R. E. Byrne (Niagara Falls); T. P. Norris (Chicago); W. C. Thurber (NY 38).

• Gordon L. Dickson (author)
• Tom P. Norris (author, recipient)
• Jack E. Walsh (author)
• Robert E. Byrne, Jr. (recipient)
• William C. Thurber (recipient)
• Calidria Asbestos (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Alpha Chemical (named)
• OSHA (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Calidria · Florida Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · New York Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · OSHA · Tennessee Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-702 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 36 pages.