Compilation Including Sistersville Plant Asbestos Procedure, Asbestos Institute Transmittal, Union Carbide Library Index Cards, and ATS Asbestosis Diagnosis Statement (1982-1987)

A 22-page exhibit that combines several unrelated documents: a Sistersville Plant safety procedure for handling asbestos-containing material, guidelines for asbestos removal, an Asbestos Institute letter listing archive documents, and two library index cards for 1968 reports. It also holds a removed-document placeholder, an American Thoracic Society memo and law-journal article about its asbestosis diagnosis statement, the statement itself, and a 1982 letter from the University of Sydney to Dr. H. C. Lewinsohn.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-5: Safety and Health Procedures Manual, Section II-13, on handling, installing, removing and disposing of asbestos-containing material (dated 9-14-82, revised 6-1-85), with audit checklist on page 5
• Pages 6-8: Guidelines for Asbestos Removal (glove bag, encapsulation, negative pressure enclosure), dated 1/12/87, ending with the name John K. Kyle
• Page 9: Letter from The Asbestos Institute, Montreal, June 19, 1986, sending a shipment of asbestos-and-health documents from AI archives
• Page 10: Index/tracing card for 'Asbestos as a Health Hazard in the United Kingdom', Union Carbide U.K. Ltd., 1968, marked confidential, not circulated
• Page 11: Index/tracing card for Gross and deTreville, 'The Pulmonary Response to Coalinga Asbestos Dust: A Preliminary Evaluation' (Ind. Hy. Foundation, July 1968), with a summary of the rat study
• Page 12: Placeholder sheet: 'Document(s) intentionally removed'
• Page 13: American Thoracic Society memo, August 18, 1987, from Marilyn Hansen to the ad hoc committee on the statement 'Diagnosis of Non-Malignant Asbestos-Related Disease', reporting a subpoena
• Pages 14-15: Law-journal newspaper article on the ATS diagnostic report and defense use of it (OCR largely unreadable; page 15 appears upside down)
• Pages 16-21: American Thoracic Society official statement, 'The Diagnosis of Nonmalignant Diseases Related to Asbestos', Am Rev Respir Dis 1986; 134:362-368, with references (opening page is page 21)
• Page 22: Letter, July 12, 1982, from the Commonwealth Institute of Health, University of Sydney, to Dr. H. C. Lewinsohn at Perkin-Elmer, on mesothelioma projections by Nicholson and the Schneiderman paper

People and organizations

• American Thoracic Society (named)
• EPA (named)
• Industrial Hygiene Foundation (named)
• Maintenance Department (named)
• OSHA (named)
• Safety and Health Department (named)
• Sistersville Plant (named)
• The Asbestos Institute (named)
• The Perkin-Elmer Corporation (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · EPA · OSHA · West Virginia Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · What is asbestosis.

About this copy

This is document UC-1618 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 22 pages.