18 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 15, 1957
Union Complaints and J-M Correspondence on Dust in the Manville Textile "A" Building (1957)
…in "A" Building. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Edward Macko (President of a local Manville labor union) writes to M.F…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 10, 1954
Dr. Herbert K. Abrams of the International Chemical Workers Union and Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on Conditions at J-M Plants (1954)
…were reported as given and not yet checked, and that the Lompoc union delegate had praised the plant's progress in "health safeguards." Nineteen days after his first letter, Smith told the Waukegan plant to start…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 9, 1957
Ira I. Brought to Harold Boeschenstein of Owens-Corning on the Asbestos Workers Union and Asbestosis (1957)
…into the causes of asbestosis and lung disease "caused by fibrous materials." Brought's answer was a sales one: he urged that every branch sales office stay in "intimate and frequent contact" with union business agents…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 13, 1955
John W. Kane of the Asbestos Workers Union and the Industrial Hygiene Foundation on Insulation Hazards (1955)
…that he would like to discuss the matter with Jackson later. The letters show an Asbestos Workers Union official raising lung deaths among insulators in 1955, and the industry-supported foundation keeping its answer out of…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 2, 1952
C. J. O'Neill to Union Oil Company of California on Handling Hyflo Super-Cel (1952)
…Neill's October bulletin to salesmen. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Correspondence to Union Oil Company of California from C.J…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 11, 1957
J. B. Skinner of American Mutual, Dust Survey of Union Asbestos & Rubber's Marshville Plant (1957)
…on dust counts he took on September 23 to 25, 1957, at the Union Asbestos & Rubber Company (UNARCO) asbestos textile plant in Marshville, North Carolina. Its stated purposes were "to evaluate control of the asbestosis hazard…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 2, 1952
W. S. Haines of Safety & Claims Service to Robert E. Cryor of Union Asbestos & Rubber on Tracing Former Disease Claimants (1952)
…Haines (President of Safety & Claims Services, Inc.) writes to Robert E. Cryor (Union Asbestos & Rubber Company), 9/2/52, that he and Ed Hayes drafted a list of all occupational disease cases handled by their office…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 14, 1953
H. M. Jackson to O. B. Westmont on the Lompoc Housekeeping Procedures Manual (1953)
…follows: Housekeeping procedures manual has been prepared by the Lompoc plant. Jackson okays providing the Union and USPHS with copies of it on 9/14/53. Jackson suggests that notations in the manual indicating that various…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 14, 1956
B. F. Stanton to S. Lower on Dust at the No. 4 Roofing Machine in the Manville Plant (1956)
…Stanton states that "[t]he several union complaints and the suggestion by certain operators that they should walk off the job 'rather than inhale that dust' are not without justification." Stanton urges correction of the problem…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 10, 1950
M. F. Naylor to J. P. Woodard on X-Ray Follow-Up of 84 Manville Industrial Hygiene Cases (1950)
…though he "will change his mind if pushed on this score." The union president's remark suggests that being called in for special films was understood among the men as a sign that something had been…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 28, 1953
Transcript of the Massachusetts Medical Society Symposium on Occupational Diseases of the Lungs (1953)
…to educate J-M's doctors and lawyers after "poor experience" in Boston compensation courts (Smith to Eby). The transcript records the insulators' union raising the hazard of their trade, and leading doctors raising lung cancer…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 1, 1952
C. J. O'Neill to All Salesmen on Answering Customers About Diatomaceous Earth Hazards (1952)
What it shows The bulletin ends with the same advice J-M gave Union Oil in July: "we know enough to warrant our advising customers, a) to minimize so far as possible the dust created by…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 29, 1954
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to Boyd Mulder on Telling Waukegan Employees Their Examination Results (1954)
…recommends that Waukegan develop a disclosure procedure similar to Lompoc's, which he says has been successful for J-M, the union and the employees. Dr. Smith is also going to send Mulder some new forms…
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Book · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1955
Kenneth W. Smith, "Asbestosis," Chapter 2 of The Pneumoconioses (1955)
What it shows Smith objects that "The term 'asbestos worker' has been used too freely," since it often meant a member of the Asbestos Workers Union, insulators who also applied mineral wool, glass fiber and magnesia…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 2, 1955
C. H. Stevens to W. C. Seeds on Dust Collection in the Manville A Building (1955)
…building before its final cleaning, so the plant would "quite likely return air to the room which is contaminated with fine asbestos dust and fibers," the cause of a union complaint. Stevens proposes changes estimated at…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 5, 1958
Dr. Kenneth Smith to J. M. Gadway on Pulmonary Function Studies at Lompoc (1958)
…results of lung tests on Lompoc workers before they were reported, and raised the timing of the tests against the plant's coming union contract talks. Four months later Smith suggested what Lompoc employees should be…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 5, 1951
Dr. A. J. Lanza, Memorandum on the Control of Pneumoconiosis Due to Diatomaceous Earth (1951)
…done," and the industry's position would be helped. His proposed steps included presenting the program to union officials and to employees through Industrial Relations. The memo shows that by 1951 J-M had X-ray…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 15, 1959
M. W. Blackhurst's Final Report on Asbestos for Coal Mine Rock Dusting (1959)
…free and combined silica, and asbestos contains about 40 percent. With the support of the United Mine Workers Union, J-M persuaded the Bureau to test asbestos in its experimental coal mine. Both wet and dry…