M. A. Patel to J. W. Karn on Asbestos Monitoring of Construction Employees at the Sistersville Plant (1984)

Memo reporting personal exposure monitoring for asbestos on January 12, 1984, while Construction Department employees stripped asbestos-containing pipe insulation at the Sistersville Plant steam plant. It states all monitored results were below the 0.5 fibers/cc OSHA standard and lists protective measures used. An attached table gives results for five workers (0.08 to 0.27 fibers/cc).

People and organizations

From M. A. Patel (Technical Center Industrial Hygiene group) to J. W. Karn (Sistersville Plant); J. W. Barna (cc); M. E. Bell (cc); M. W. Bosserman (cc); C. P. Maxwell (cc); M. L. Mills (cc); R. L. Noble (cc); D. R. Paugh (cc); R. E. Peele (cc); H. H. Price (cc); B. H. Avashia, M.D. (cc); R. G. Rowe, M.D. (cc).

• Manhar A. Patel (author)
• J. W. Karn (recipient)
• Bipin H. Avashia (copied)
• J. W. Barna (copied)
• Mark E. Bell (copied)
• M. Wayne Bosserman (copied)
• Charles P. Maxwell (copied)
• M. L. Mills (copied)
• Randy Noble (copied)
• D. R. Paugh (copied)
• Robert Eugene Peele (copied)
• H. H. Price (copied)
• Richard G. Rowe (copied)
• Construction Department (named)
• Engineering and Technology Services (named)
• OSHA (named)
• Sistersville Plant (named)
• Technical Center Industrial Hygiene Group (named)
• Technical Center Services (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)

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Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos insulation: pipe covering, block, and insulating cement · Fiber Counting · OSHA · OSHA Asbestos Standard · West Virginia Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-3054 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 2 pages. Production numbers UCC 001982 to UCC 001983.