Batson-Cook Company (Hugh L. Cotton) to Union Carbide on Asbestos Dust Tests and News Coverage, Memorial Medical Center, Savannah (1983)

A cover letter from Batson-Cook Company to Union Carbide forwarded a Technical Services, Inc. test report on dust samples from the Memorial Medical Center addition in Savannah, plus newspaper articles on the same issue. The attached lab certificate reported 0% asbestos in four samples. A July 21, 1983 Savannah newspaper article reported asbestos was added to a floor compound at the hospital. The exhibit also includes a July 20, 1983 Union Carbide Metals Division letter to Batson-Cook about Calidria RG 244.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Letter, Batson-Cook Company (Hugh L. Cotton) to Union Carbide, attn. R. F. Wolff, July 25, 1983, forwarding test report and news releases
• Page 2: Technical Services, Inc. Certificate of Analysis, Lab No. 53605, July 15, 1983: dust samples from ORs 9 and 10 and work room, 0% asbestos
• Page 3: No text captured by OCR; possibly a blank page or a news release page (not verified)
• Page 4: Savannah newspaper article by Tom Barton, July 21, 1983, on asbestos added to the floor compound at Memorial Medical Center
• Page 5: Letter, Union Carbide Corporation Metals Division to Hugh Cotten, Batson Cook Company, July 20, 1983, about Calidria RG 244 and the lab results

People and organizations

From Hugh L. Cotton (Batson-Cook Company (signed cover letter)) to R. F. Wolff (Union Carbide Corporation, Danbury, CT); John Crane (copy recipient).

• Roger Wolff (recipient)
• John Crane (copied)
• EPA (named)
• Metals Division (named)
• OSHA (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Calidria · EPA · Georgia Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · OSHA.

About this copy

This is document UC-1413 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 5 pages. Production numbers A25654 to A25655.