93 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 5 of 5
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 14, 1943
Elliott DeForest of the Northwest Magnesia Association to Washington State on Deleting Its Asbestosis Rule (1943)
…ripe old age, which is significant or the Pipe Coverers Union as compared with the other trades." DeForest states that when there is the slightest amount of dust which might arise from any sawing, the Association…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 3, 1968
J. R. M. Hutcheson to N. W. Hendry on a Caution Label for Asbestos Fiber Bags (1968)
…asbestos customers be advised in advance of this step, "otherwise they might have union problems." Hendry and others go about drafting a letter indicating that beginning shortly, J-M will be labeling each bag of chrysotile…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 21, 1971
Johns-Manville Environmental Health Task Force Policy Committee Minutes, May 1971 (1971)
…Dr. T. H. Davison noted that under the new federal safety law Selikoff, through the union, might get them anyway. Other items: Dr. Wright advised replacing crocidolite in J-M products wherever possible, a manager proposed…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 1, 1937
The Employers' Group Engineering Manual on Occupational Disease Hazards (1937)
…does not show how J-M came to have it. J-M's own chronology describes a workers' compensation policy for 1937 to 1938 that the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, one of The Employers' Group companies…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 30, 1966
W. P. Raines Confidential Memo on a Dinner with Dr. Irving Selikoff (1966)
…Sinai. He will continue to be the doctor for the Asbestos Workers Union. Dr. Selikoff expressed great interest in the QAMA Scientific Committee and Raines speculates that Selikoff wants to have "his ego flattered" by the…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1940
Johns-Manville Report, Industrial Relations Activities During 1938 and 1939 and Their Results (1940)
…cover labeled for Enders M. Voorhees, a J-M director. It reviews the Industrial Relations Department set up in 1937: labor policy, unions and strikes, labor turnover, wages and hours, and community relations. Under "Safety and…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 12, 1961
Leon B. Horowitz's Report to A. W. Spedding on the Asbestos Textile Institute Meeting of September 1961
…erroneous thinking and irresponsible reporting" on asbestosis and cancer, the need to "avoid studies by State agencies (and Labor Unions)," and: "Because of the stigma of 'cancer', irresponsible reporting must be eliminated to avoid the high…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 12, 1974
Ward Burleson to J-M Attorney Andrea M. Guyer on What J-M Knew About Asbestosis Among Insulators (1974)
What it shows Burleson gives three reasons he thought the danger was not widely known: unions opposed physical examinations by employers, most deaths were probably not diagnosed as asbestosis, and claims were handled through workers' compensation…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1945
A. W. Garrett, British Chief Inspector of Factories, on Asbestos Insulation Aboard Ships (1945)
…workers under 18 in dusty asbestos work; and supervision of respirator care and use. He reports that the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation and the unions had accepted these arrangements. By 1945, the British government was treating shipboard…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 29, 1963
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith and C. L. Sheckler at the J-M Industrial Relations Managers' Meeting (1963)
…or possibly customer liability claims." He warned that unions were pressing for "review of our J-M dust counts or other Industrial Hygiene records," and that poor conditions lead to "incurable and often fatal occupational diseases…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 3, 1985
G. Earl Parker to The New Yorker on Paul Brodeur's Asbestos Articles and Senator Hart (1985)
…was compensating the injured and "controlling the litigation epidemic." He objects to large awards for pleural thickening without impairment, and argues that blame is shared by the medical community, unions, the U.S. Public Health Service…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 12, 1961
Leon B. Horowitz's Report to A. W. Spedding on Dr. Kenneth Smith's Asbestosis and Cancer Talk at the Asbestos Textile Institute (June 1961)
…the more costly Customer Liability cases in Common Law Court." The members also agreed that spending on dust counts and X-rays was worthwhile because it had reduced asbestosis cases and claims and problems with unions…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 8, 1961
Dr. Joseph A. Smith to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on Dr. Selikoff's Proposed Passaic County Asbestosis Study (1961)
…and (3) other lab studies. Dr. Selikoff said that he would approach unions and the asbestos industry for support. He hopes the NJTHA and SHD will offer support, but he plans to proceed with the project…