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Fred L. Smith to Rocco Sergi (Kentile Floors) Transmitting Airborne Asbestos Counts from the Chicago Kentile Plant (1980)

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Cover letter from Fred L. Smith to Rocco Sergi of Kentile Floors, enclosing a report on airborne asbestos fiber counts taken on April 30, 1980 at Kentile's Chicago plant, where Calidria SG-104 was used in vinyl asbestos floor tile. The letter says the time-weighted averages were within the OSHA limit of 2.0 fibers/cc, and that the scrap scale operator on Line #7 had a higher value of 1.1. The report describes the sampling method, the operations and the results table.

Author
Fred L. Smith (Union Carbide Corporation, Metals Division (signed the cover letter; collected, analyzed and reported the samples))
Published by
Union Carbide Corporation, Metals Division, Niagara Falls, New York
Series
Union Carbide documents, UC-4871
Date
May 20, 1980
Number
Bates X418889 to X418893
Library no.
ACL Doc 19383 · asbestosclaims.law/library/19383
Rights
A document from asbestos litigation, published for research and historical study.

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What the document holds

  • Page 1: Letter of May 20, 1980 from Fred L. Smith to Rocco Sergi transmitting the monitoring results, with handwritten routing note at top
  • Page 2: Title page: Airborne Asbestos Counts for Kentile Floors, Inc., Chicago (sampled April 30, 1980; reported May 9, 1980)
  • Page 3: Sampling equipment, test procedures and comments on OSHA limits
  • Page 4: Objective, operation description and remarks on the Line #7 scrap scale operator
  • Page 5: Figure I: production line floor plan
  • Page 6: Summary of fiber counts by sample, operator and line, with TWA calculations

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From Fred L. Smith (Union Carbide Corporation, Metals Division (signed the cover letter; collected, analyzed and reported the samples)) to Rocco Sergi (Kentile Floors, Inc., Brooklyn, NY).

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos Floor Tile, Sheet Flooring, and Black Mastic · Calidria · Fiber Counting · Illinois Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · NIOSH · New York Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · OSHA.

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This is document UC-4871 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 6 pages. Production numbers X418889 to X418893.

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Fred L. Smith (Union Carbide Corporation, Metals Division (signed the cover letter, collected, analyzed and reported the samples)). “Fred L. Smith to Rocco Sergi (Kentile Floors) Transmitting Airborne Asbestos Counts from the Chicago Kentile Plant.” May 20, 1980. Union Carbide documents, UC-4871, Bates X418889 to X418893. Union Carbide Corporation, Metals Division, Niagara Falls, New York. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 19383. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/19383.

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