19 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 18, 1967
Union Carbide Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology Documents, Including D. E. Deese on Sandblasting (1967)
The exhibit is a compilation of Union Carbide industrial hygiene papers from a records-center folder labeled 'Industrial Hygiene Reports'. It includes a December 1967 memo on sandblasting and silicosis with respirator and air-supply recommendations…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 17, 1974
D. E. Deese to Thomas T. Curry (OSHA) Requesting Personnel Monitoring Data from Vinyl Resins Plant Inspection (1974)
…from a Union Carbide senior industrial hygienist to the OSHA Area Director in Houston requesting a copy of personnel monitoring data collected by OSHA compliance officers during their June 1974 inspection of Union Carbide's vinyl…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 17, 1972
D. E. Deese to Gran Townsend on Providing Asbestos Fiber Counts for Brown and Root Samples (1972)
Internal correspondence in which industrial hygienist D. E. Deese confirmed a telephone request from the Brownsville Plant about counting asbestos fibers on samples collected by Brown and Root personnel. He said the department was willing to provide…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 12, 1972
D. E. Deese to J. Scannell (OSHA) on Interpretation of Asbestos Standards (1972), with Plant 510 Asbestos Dust Study Sheets (1973)
…September 12, 1972 letter from Union Carbide's Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to OSHA's Office of Standards asking how to interpret the personal monitoring and medical examination sections of the June 7, 1972…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 4, 1971
D. E. Deese to L. T. Windel Transmitting Walsh-Healey Act Materials, with Attached Walsh-Healey Safety Checklists and NAM Analysis (1971)
A February 1971 internal Union Carbide letter from an industrial hygienist to the Brownsville Plant enclosing 1970 Threshold Limit Values, an abstract of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, and a noise paper, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 18, 1967
D. E. Deese on Sandblasting Hazards and Respirator Recommendations at Gulf Coast Plants (1967)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Gulf Coast industrial hygienist, written after industrial hygiene studies of sandblasting at two Gulf Coast plants. It describes silicosis, states that air-supplied abrasive-blasting hoods can protect operators, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 9, 1973
D. E. Deese to T. L. Rapp on the Asbestos Training Film, with Attached Pages on Chrysotile Structure (1973)
Page 1 is an internal letter in which an industrial hygienist complains to T. L. Rapp that he was not consulted on the content of a video tape to train craftsmen to protect themselves from asbestos exposure. Pages 2-4 are an undated, unsigned…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1972
D. E. Deese to Distribution on OSHA Respiratory Protection Requirement for Asbestos Tear-Out (1972)
Memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to a list of Union Carbide recipients reporting OSHA's interpretation of respiratory protection for asbestos tear-out or removal. It states that OSHA's Delbert Flowers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 27, 1976
J. H. Rapp to J. P. Alexander and Others on Coveralls for Insulators, with D. E. Deese Memo on Asbestos Strip Job Monitoring (1976)
Two Texas City memos on asbestos. The first, dated February 27, 1976, from J. H. Rapp to plant personnel, announced that coveralls would be issued to insulators who might be exposed to asbestos fibers above the ceiling level, and gave laundering and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 2, 1973
Industrial Hygiene Preliminary Report on Asbestos Exposure During Kaylo-10 Insulation Clean-up at Oxide II, Plant 510, to P. A. Walden and A. W. Boyd (1973)
Preliminary industrial hygiene report on two air samples taken 9-28-73 in the breath zone of a Brown & Root laborer cleaning up Kaylo-10 insulation torn off a flange on the BOU at Oxide II. Reported results were 2.1 and 1.5 fibers/cc >5 microns,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 27, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. R. Guest on Asbestos Dust Monitoring at the Texas City Plant (1972)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which an industrial hygienist sent H. R. Guest the available asbestos dust study data for the Texas City plant. He listed limits on the data and said asbestos was still in…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 11, 1976
D. E. Deese to D. L. Engle on the OSHA Inspection of the Oxo-Syn Gas Control Room, Texas City (1976)
Letter marked Confidential reporting an OSHA inspection on November 4, 1976 of the Oxo-Syn Gas Control Room (Bldg. 138) at the Texas City plant, made after an employee complaint. It describes the inspectors' air sampling for carbon monoxide, their…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 14, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. B. Coons and Others on the OSHA Permanent Asbestos Standard (1972)
A June 14, 1972 memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to Texas City managers and a physician. It summarizes 18 requirements of OSHA's first permanent asbestos standard, including exposure limits, monitoring, medical examinations…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 30, 1972
D. E. Deese Texas City Industrial Hygiene Memos and Letters on Asbestos Sampling and Monitoring (1972-1973)
Compilation of Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics industrial hygiene papers, mostly by D. E. Deese of the Gulf Coast Area. It holds a June 1972 memo transmitting an equipment list for personal asbestos dust sampling under…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 3, 1973
D. E. Deese to G. Townsend on Brownsville Plant Industrial Hygiene Visit of July 11-12, 1973 (1973)
Internal correspondence following a July 11-12, 1973 industrial hygiene visit to the Brownsville Plant, listing 14 industrial hygiene projects and monitoring frequencies. Item 1 states that asbestos sampling is required at least every six months,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 14, 1973
Industrial Hygiene Department Preliminary Report on Asbestos Gasket Cutting in Salvage Stores, Bldg. 281, Plant 515, with Dust Study Sheets (1973)
A preliminary industrial hygiene report dated 11/14/73 on monitoring asbestos gasket cutting operations in Salvage Stores, Bldg. 281, Plant 515. It reports that personnel and general area samples were all below one fiber per cc longer than five…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 31, 1972
L. G. McMullen Preliminary Report to M. G. Collins on Asbestos Dust Exposure During Castelite Insulation Tear-Out at No. 1 Olefins (1972)
Preliminary industrial hygiene report and attached asbestos dust study sheet for one breath-zone air sample taken on 10-19-72 from a Brown & Root insulator tearing out Castelite insulation at No. 1 Olefins. The sample counted 11 fibers per cubic…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 14, 1973
Industrial Hygiene Department Preliminary Report on Monitoring Asbestos Insulation Removal from a Heat Exchanger, Bldg. 215, with Asbestos Dust Study Sheet (1973)
A one-page preliminary report dated 11/14/73 on monitoring the removal of insulation from a heat exchanger in Bldg. 215 at Plant 515. It states that the personnel sample was below one fiber per cc longer than five microns and cites the Threshold…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 15, 1973
L. G. McMullen Industrial Hygiene Preliminary Report to A. W. Boyd on Asbestos Exposures During Kaylo Insulation Tear-Out at Oxide I Converter (1973)
A preliminary industrial hygiene report on five breath-zone air samples taken on June 8, 1973 while workers tore out Kaylo-10 and 20 insulation from the flanges of No. 27-2 converter at Oxide I. Results ranged from 1.0 to 4.1 fibers per cubic…