93 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 3 of 5
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 6, 1975
J. G. Cole's Memos to R. E. Sampson Transcribing CBC Reports on the Advocate Mine (1975)
…the Advocate mines. The program included interviews with employees, government officials, union officials, and a doctor from the local medical school. Interviewees discussed the extremely dusty conditions at the mines and surrounding area, J-M non…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 3, 1949
J-M Production Engineering Report on Equipment for Thermobestos Pipe Covering and Thermoflex Felts (1949)
…document as follows: J-M's Sales Department contends that, because of J-M's inability to furnish insulation comparable and competitive with Union Asbestos ("Unibestos"), J-M lost applied insulation contracts in 1948 in excess…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 16, 1936
J. P. Kottcamp to Vandiver Brown on an Illinois Manufacturers' Meeting About the New Disease Law (1936)
…Brown, J-M's attorney. At Brown's request Kottcamp had attended a luncheon of Illinois industry at Chicago's Union League Club on the new Occupational Diseases Act and the Health, Comfort and Safety Act…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 3, 1964
Kenneth W. Smith to E. W. Redd of Leed Insulator Corporation on Asbestosis (1964)
…this document as follows: Dr. K.W. Smith letter to E.W. Redd (Leed Insulator Corporation) dated 12/3/64, responding to Redd's inquiry concerning asbestosis and insulation workers. Referring to the Selikoff report, Dr…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 17, 1974
L. J. Greco to G. L. Swallow on the Nashua Industrial Hygiene Survey (1974)
…where they were required. "During the survey we had three personnel who would not wear a sampler," all on the sanding line; two were union stewards, and "This incident has occured for the last three years."
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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 · November 16, 1944
Minutes of the Organization Meeting of the Asbestos Textile Institute (1944)
…makers attended, including Johns-Manville, Raybestos-Manhattan, Keasbey & Mattison, Union Asbestos & Rubber, and Thomas Gatke's Asbestos Textile Company. The members adopted a constitution and by-laws, elected a board of governors and officers (C. H…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 13, 1960
National Insulation Manufacturers Association Winter Meeting Minutes (1960)
…17 insulation makers attended, among them five men from Johns-Manville Sales Corporation (including J. B. Jobe), along with Eagle-Picher, Keasbey & Mattison, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning, Union Asbestos & Rubber and others, plus the association…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 18, 1982
Robert W. Neirynck to Robert Batson on Hugh Jackson's Testimony About the Celite Warning Label (1982)
…man named William against J-M. Plaintiffs in the Bloomington cases claimed lung fibrosis from diatomaceous earth that J-M sold to the Union Asbestos and Rubber Company (Unarco) without warnings. Neirynck had read Hugh Jackson…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1969
Selikoff, Pundsack and Hammond, "Fibrous Dust Respirator Protection: Designing for Workman Acceptance and Effectiveness" (1969)
…against chrysotile, but noted that amosite and crocidolite had not been tested. In two-day field trials with union members and an insulation contractor, men wearing a J-M prototype with an exhalation valve, the same…
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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 27, 1948
Vandiver Brown to the Saranac Sponsors Calling a Meeting on the Asbestos Dust Report (1948)
…Russell Manufacturing, Thermoid (Southern Asbestos), Union Asbestos & Rubber and United States Gypsum. He sends "Part I" of the Saranac Laboratory report "Asbestos Pneumoconiosis" with his own memorandum, asking that it be treated "with the utmost confidence…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 3, 1949
Vandiver Brown to the Saranac Sponsors Enclosing the Revised Report, Asbestos Pneumoconiosis (1949)
…Keasbey & Mattison, Raybestos-Manhattan, Russell Manufacturing, Thermoid (Southern Asbestos), Union Asbestos & Rubber and United States Gypsum), a four-page memorandum by Brown on the laboratory's September 30, 1948, draft, and the revised report of January…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 14, 1980
W. B. Reitze to M. A. Tappin on Not Violating OSHA's Records Access Rule (1980)
…executive of the company, not "instruct a plant to violate a federal regulation." Reitze would not endorse such an action. Related documents M. A. Tappin to W. B. Reitze on Refusing Unions Retirees' Medical Records (1980)
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 12, 1971
C. L. Sheckler to J. D. Anderson and L. H. Hemerda on Reporting Cancer Cases at Manville (1971)
…cancer, including mesothelioma," with everything except the X-ray films. Reports were to be made as soon as the plant learned of a possible case, whether from outside doctors, disability retirement requests, the union or supervisors.
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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…