23 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 12, 1973
W. C. Thurber to V. D. Holt on Implementation of Tuck-In Sleeve Packaging for Asbestos Bags (1973)
Internal memo from W. C. Thurber to V. D. Holt saying the present asbestos bags let small quantities of material dribble from the fill hole, creating dust and clean-up problems in customers' plants. It reports preliminary work on tuck-in sleeves and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 28, 1974
W. C. Thurber to E. A. Piersall: Miscellaneous Notes on King City Management Safety Audit (1974)
Memo dated October 28, 1974 with notes on a management safety audit of the King City plant. It covers general action items, comments from interviews with plant employees (mostly about slippery floors and safety meetings), and a dust sampling…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 23, 1974
W. C. Thurber to Distribution on Current Status of Plans for Expanding the King City Asbestos Plant, with Attached Earlier Memos (1974)
A December 23, 1974 memo updating a June 19, 1974 memo on plans to expand the King City asbestos plant to 60,000 T/yr. It reports cost estimates, two financial cases, land acquisition efforts for tailings disposal, and a decision to defer…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 7, 1975
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison and J. L. Myers on Packaging SG-103 for Kentile in 100 lb. Polyethylene Bags (1975)
Short memo in which W. C. Thurber stated his understanding that SG-103 for Kentile was planned to be packed in 50 lb. Valeron cross-layered plastic bags and called that packaging very costly. He asked whether, if the pellet cooler were working, a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 29, 1974
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison and Others on Housekeeping Test in the King City Bagging Area to Meet OSHA Fiber Limit (1974)
Memo from W. C. Thurber stating that OSHA regulations require the dust level at the King City operation to be below two fibers per cc after July 1, 1976, and that recent dust counts showed the main circuit bagging area as the principal problem. He…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 14, 1974
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison and Others Confirming RG-244 Packaging Changes (1974)
Memo from W. C. Thurber confirming discussions of January 11, 1974 on packaging of RG-244. It says cardboard shrouds will be dropped once inventory is used up and that 3-ply bags will give way to slightly larger two-ply bags. It also covers gluing…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 4, 1974
W. C. Thurber to V. D. Holt, R. J. Klotzbach, F. H. Larrison and J. L. Myers on Shrink Wrapping Bags to Control Fill-Valve Leakage (1974)
Memo from W. C. Thurber, with a copy line for O. J. Malocarne of Niagara Falls, New York, to four recipients. It says leakage from the fill valve is a major problem in packaging asbestos. It asks for an individual bag shrink film oven and a bag…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 24, 1973
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison, Jr. on Deferring Coverall Service for King City Employees (1973)
Letter from W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison, Jr., with J. F. Emerson and J. W. Rawlings also listed, about a coverall service for all employees at an annual cost of $5,000 that was discussed during his visit the previous week. Thurber suggested…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 13, 1974
J. L. Myers to F. H. Larrison on Packaging Concepts, Transmitting W. C. Thurber's Memo on King City Main Circuit Packaging (1974)
A March 13, 1974 internal note from John L. Myers to F. H. Larrison commenting on item 3(b) of W. C. Thurber's February 21, 1974 memo on packaging concepts for the King City main circuit. Myers said the wooden pallet top should be solid to retain…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 11, 1974
G. J. Weihs, Chrysotile Asbestos Markets and Forecasts for Group 7, with W. C. Thurber Cover Note and Related Memos (1974)
…7', March 1974: summary, conclusions, tables and end-use sections Partial Union Carbide internal form (Berkshire Business Forms) with little legible content; apparently not part of the report Commercial Intelligence memo to William Thurber, May 9…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 1975
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison on High June Air Sample Results in the Bagging Areas (1975)
Short memo from W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison at King City about a July 7 report on June air samples. Thurber wrote that he was surprised at the high levels in both bagging areas, especially the RG-244 area, and asked what the problem was and what…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 4, 1976
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison on the King City Smoking Ban and Sputum Cytology Testing (1976)
Internal correspondence from W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison, with copies to nine others, recommending a smoking ban at the King City facility, to be introduced after showing the AIA film "Working with Asbestos". It also states that it was agreed…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 4, 1974
W. C. Thurber to O. J. Malocarne et al. on Bag Spout Leakage and Shrink Wrapping, with Earlier J. L. Myers Memo to Thurber on Packaging (1974)
Exhibit of two pages. Page 1 is a November 4, 1974 letter from W. C. Thurber to O. J. Malocarne and four others stating that leakage from the bag fill valve was a major packaging problem and requesting a bag shrink film oven and a bag cleaning…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 20, 1974
W. C. Thurber to King City Managers Requesting a Plan to Link Personal Dust Monitoring Results to Individual Employees, with Law Department Reply (1974)
A May 20, 1974 cover memo from W. C. Thurber asks recipients to review procedures and find the simplest way to correlate personal monitoring results with particular employees at King City, with a plan by July 1st. It attaches a May 13, 1974 Law…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 1975
Draft Safety Audit Letter to F. H. Larrison on the King City Operation, October 15-16 Audit (1975)
A draft letter from the Safety department to the King City manager reporting the results of an October 15-16, 1975 safety audit of the King City operation. It said key situations were well controlled and listed recommendations on mobile equipment,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 8, 1976
W. C. Thurber to R. E. Byrne and Others Transmitting Revision I of the 1977-1981 Five Year Forecast, with Asbestos Planning Data and Sales Forecast Sheets (1976)
Four pages from Union Carbide Metals Division long-range planning files: a handwritten cost assessment worksheet for asbestos plant products, a Long Range Plan data sheet for the Asbestos strategic planning unit, a June 8, 1976…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 6, 1976
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison on Product Packaging: Individually Shrink-Wrapped Bags for RG-144 (1976)
Internal correspondence from W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison at King City directing that all future RG-144 production be packaged in individually shrink-wrapped bags rather than on shrink-filmed pallets. It states that improved package integrity…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 17, 1974
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison on Distributing the Johns-Manville Asbestos Booklet to King City Employees, with Draft Cover Letter and Dr. Welsh's Comments (1974)
A January 17, 1974 memo from W. C. Thurber proposed giving all King City employees a Johns-Manville booklet, "What Every Employee Should Know About Asbestos," with an attached cover letter. The exhibit also holds a draft cover letter for F. H.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 23, 1974
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison on King City Dust Counts and the Dust Sweeper, with Attached March 1974 Air Sample Report (1974)
A short April 23, 1974 letter from W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison at King City comments on the dust counts in the March 22 report and says the dust sweeper counts were higher than desired. Attached are a March 22, 1974 internal memo to Paul…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 12, 1973
W. C. Thurber to V. D. Holt on Implementation of Tuck-In Sleeve Packaging for Asbestos Bags (1973)
Internal memo of June 12, 1973 in which W. C. Thurber asked V. D. Holt to investigate with the plant a tuck-in sleeve design for asbestos bags. It says material dribbled from the fill hole of the present bags, creating dust and clean-up problems in…