12 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 19, 1983
W. C. Young to Maintenance Area Superintendents and Department Heads on OSHA Plan to Lower Asbestos Permissible Exposure Limits (1983)
A one-page internal memo from the South Charleston Plant, signed "Bill Young", forwarding to maintenance supervisors an attached article from Occupational Safety & Health Reporter dated April 14, 1983. The subject line is an OSHA plan to lower…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 18, 1983
W. C. Young to E. O. Harrah and J. E. Kidd on Asbestos Exposure Potential in Gasket Cutting Operations, South Charleston Plant (1983)
Internal correspondence dated November 18, 1983, reporting that the writer and Dr. Holland observed gasket-cutting operations in the GR Shop (Bldg. 307) and Sheet Metal Shop (Bldg. 320). It states that asbestos dust exposure potential appeared…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 16, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Stay of OSHA's Emergency Temporary Standard for Asbestos (1983)
A one-page memorandum reporting that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Asbestos Information Association's request to stay OSHA's emergency temporary standard on occupational asbestos exposure. It states that the order bars OSHA from…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 5, 1984
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on Court Ruling Disallowing the OSHA Asbestos Emergency Temporary Standard (1984)
A one-page memorandum from W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson, with copies to others, reproducing a summary from Occupational Safety and Health Reporter. The summary reports that the Fifth Circuit struck down OSHA's emergency asbestos standard. Young…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 15, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Amended OSHA Asbestos Standard at South Charleston, with OSHA Exposure Estimates and Emergency Standard Text (1983)
A December 15, 1983 memorandum from W. C. Young summarizes the points of OSHA's emergency temporary asbestos standard (effective November 4, 1983) that would affect plant operations. For each change (the 0.5 f/cc limit, employee training, respirator…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 24, 1985
W. C. Young to C. R. Gillispie, Industrial Hygiene Survey Report on Asbestos Sampling at the South Charleston Plant (1985)
A one-page industrial hygiene survey report on asbestos sampling at the South Charleston Plant on 10-22-85 and 10-23-85, in Department/Location 327, Construction. It lists handwritten air-sample results for Maintenance Dept. and Construction Dept.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 9, 1982
W. C. Young to Maintenance Area Superintendents on Asbestos Exposure Monitoring at South Charleston Plant (1982)
Internal memo stating that a plant safety procedure requires employee asbestos exposure monitoring on significant jobs handling asbestos-containing insulation. It says OSHA requires supplied-air respirators unless exposure limits are shown not to be…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 2, 1980
William C. Young to J. S. Cornell on Asbestos Screening Test for Plant Insulation, South Charleston Plant (1980)
Internal correspondence reporting that the plant laboratory had performed a NIOSH-published colorimetric test for the probable presence of asbestos on insulation samples. It says the Plant Safety Department would offer on-site field testing and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 15, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Amended OSHA Asbestos Standard (1983)
Memorandum summarizing the points of OSHA's amended emergency temporary asbestos standard, effective November 4, 1983, most likely to affect plant operations. It lists the changes (the permissible exposure limit cut from 2 to 0.5 f/cc, training, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 21, 1979
W. C. Young to J. E. Kidd on Plant Use of Asbestos-Containing Welding Blankets at South Charleston (1979)
Memo from W. C. Young to J. E. Kidd, with copies to eight others including a physician, about the plant's use of asbestos-containing welding blankets. It says the plant Environmental Protection Department endorses substitution as a health hazard…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 21, 1979
W. C. Young to J. E. Kidd on Plant Use of Asbestos-Containing Welding Blankets, South Charleston Plant (1979)
Memo from the South Charleston Plant Environmental Protection Department about plant stores and local suppliers lacking a suitable alternative to asbestos-containing welding blanket fabrics. It says the plant EPD endorses substitution but would…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 14, 1984
W. C. Young to C. R. Gillespie on the Reliability of the Asbestos Screening Test for Insulation Materials (1984)
Internal Union Carbide correspondence from the South Charleston Plant, dated February 14, 1984, on the plant's use of an 'asbestos screening test' developed by NIOSH workers to check old insulation materials. The writer lists four…