Union Carbide Sistersville Plant Capital Work Order 380-564, Safety & Health – Insulation (Asbestos Insulation Replacement), with Handwritten Notes (1983)

Capital work order package for a $500,000 project to repair or replace exposed asbestos insulation in the Steam Plant and Monomers Area of the Sistersville, WV plant, replacing it with calcium silicate insulation. It includes the work order form, an addendum with objective, justification and safety guidelines, an audit-review page and a cost estimate. Two handwritten notes and a blank capital project request form precede it.

What the document holds

• Page 1: 514 Safety Dept. note pad sheet with handwritten notes about an asbestos replacement project (mostly legible only in the image)
• Page 2: 'From the desk of W. E. Ballard' handwritten note about asbestos information (legible only in the image)
• Page 3: Blank SUI Division Working Budget Capital Project Request (CPR) form, South Charleston Plant
• Page 4: Capital Work Order, Request 380-564, Safety & Health – Insulation, Sistersville Plant, $500,000
• Pages 5-6: Addendum dated December 15, 1983: objective, justification, alternatives, risk, safety and health considerations, project team
• Page 7: Basis of Audit Review for Request 380-564
• Page 8: Engineering Department estimate summary and expenditure forecast
• Page 9: No text recorded; appears blank

People and organizations

From J. F. Dodd (Project sponsor); C. A. Eddy/O. L. Estep (Cost estimators (Engineering Department)); W. E. Ballard (Author of handwritten note on 'From the desk of' slip, Bldg 82-324).

• W. E. Ballard (author)
• Joseph F. Dodd (author)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• 514 Safety Department (named)
• Engineering Department (named)
• Environmental Protection Department (named)
• Maintenance Department (named)
• Sistersville Plant (named)
• South Charleston Plant (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: West Virginia Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-4245 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 9 pages. Production numbers UCC 011522 to UCC 011528.