9 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Affidavit of Dr. Arthur M. Langer on Calidria Chrysotile Exposure of Conwed's Cloquet Plant Workers, Conwed Corp. v. Union Carbide
…in Conwed Corporation v. Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Company, Inc. It states his qualifications and his opinion that Conwed workers at the Cloquet, Minnesota ceiling tile plant were substantially exposed to airborne Union Carbide Calidria…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1978
A. M. Langer et al., Variation of Properties of Chrysotile Asbestos Subjected to Milling, Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health (1978)
…Environ. Health 4:173-188) reporting laboratory tests on Calidria RG-144 chrysotile, supplied by Union Carbide, that was impact-milled for 60 to 3600 seconds. The authors report that milling reduced fiber length and crystallinity…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1975
Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports, Vol. 7 No. 2: "Asbestos Disease Can Spread to Workers' Families" (1975)
Summer 1975 issue of a newsletter from the Mount Sinai insulation industry hygiene program. The lead article reports a study of 326 family contacts of former asbestos factory workers, 35% of whom had X-ray abnormalities, plus mesothelioma cases…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1972
Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports, Vol. 4, No. 4, Convention Issue: Insulators' Health Problem and the IIHRP Panel Exhibit (Winter 1972)
…panels: key to local unions, territorial map, and a page printed mirrored/inverted (apparently a panel on lung cancer or mesothelioma) Exhibit panels: mortality statistics tables for Locals 12 and 32 and for all union members…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 7, 1984
A. M. Langer (Mount Sinai) to J. A. Moore (EPA) Critiquing the NRDC Petition to Prohibit Asbestos in Automobile Brakes (1984)
Letter from a Mount Sinai Environmental Sciences Laboratory scientist to the EPA's Assistant Administrator for Pesticides and Toxic Substances, asking that it replace his October 11, 1984 remarks as a formal critique of the NRDC petition to prohibit…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 7, 1985
Darrell K. Mattheis to ORC Asbestos Task Force Forwarding Dr. Arthur Langer's Letters to EPA on the NRDC Asbestos Brake Petition (1985)
A February 1985 Organization Resources Counselors memorandum forwarded to its Asbestos Task Force a copy of Dr. Arthur Langer's letter to EPA's Dr. John A. Moore about the NRDC petition to prohibit asbestos in auto and truck brakes. An unsigned…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1975
Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports, Vol. 7 No. 2: Asbestos Disease Can Spread to Workers' Families (1975)
Summer 1975 issue of a newsletter from the Mount Sinai Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program. It reports a study of 326 family contacts of former asbestos factory workers, a supplied-air respirator, a conference on occupational cancer, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Nicholson, "Asbestos—The TLV Approach," p. 163, on Asbestos Dust Concentrations in Insulation Work and Shipyards (journal page, undated)
A single journal page (p. 163) from an article by Nicholson titled 'Asbestos—The TLV Approach'. It discusses peak and average asbestos fiber concentrations in insulation work, including the 1945 Fleisher shipyard study and a 1965 Murphy shipyard…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 15, 1975
Rohl, Langer, Selikoff and Nicholson, 'Exposure to Asbestos in the Use of Consumer Spackling, Patching, and Taping Compounds,' Science (1975)
Article from Science reporting analysis of 15 consumer spackling and patching compounds bought in the New York City area, plus industrial drywall taping compounds, for asbestos and other minerals. It also reports airborne fiber measurements during…