93 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 5
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 21, 1962
Union Carbide Institute Plant Dust Surveys of J-M Thermobestos Insulation Blocks (1962)
…M's Manville, New Jersey laboratory. Sexton wrote on December 4 that J-M was "extremely interested" in having Union Carbide use Thermobestos, and that he did not favor Peele accepting the invitation. The papers show…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 15, 1975
W. B. Reitze and J. T. Vanderveen on Replacing Thermobestos with Thermo-12 in Brazil (1975)
…Thermobestos was J-M's asbestos calcium silicate pipe and block insulation; its dustiness was documented in the 1960s (Union Carbide's 1962 dust surveys). In 1977 Reitze found Thermobestos still being made and installed in…
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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 9, 1944
Bell Asbestos Mines to Canadian Johns-Manville Enclosing Union and Company Briefs to the National War Labour Board (1944)
What it shows The union pointed out that thirty claims had been made to the Workmen's Compensation Commission in two years and only five accepted, that twenty-eight miners (eighteen at Johnson's and ten…
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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 · May 11, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Union Asbestos & Rubber Enclosing Gardner's First Progress Report (1937)
What it shows Union Asbestos & Rubber was one of the companies that signed the November 1936 agreement to pay for Gardner's work at the Saranac Laboratory, under which the results belonged to the sponsors and…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 22, 1968
W. L. Ruff's Notes of a Manville Union-Management Meeting on Dust, Noise and Examination Results (1968)
What it shows The union's complaint, recorded in the company's own notes, concerns a practice that runs through J-M's earlier papers: not telling workers what their examinations showed (see Dr. Kenneth Smith…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 14, 1971
C. L. Hite to B. Mulder on Waukegan's Red Slip Cases and the Union (1971)
What it shows Hite reports that union official Ben Foust expected a proposal that any worker moved to a lower-paying job because of a lung problem caused by asbestos or silica at work should keep…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 17, 1936
Vandiver Brown to Lewis Silverman of Union Asbestos & Rubber on the Air Hygiene Foundation (1936)
…Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: In a letter to L.J. Silverman (Union Asbestos and Rubber Company) dated 12/17/36, V…
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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 · February 12, 1982
Lawrence S. Falter to the International Chemical Workers Union on Access to Long Beach Exposure and Medical Records (1982)
…He tells the union that monitoring data is kept in each worker's medical file and that the company's policy was "to ask all individual employees to review his own medical file." The plant had…
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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 · November 30, 1961
C. L. Sheckler to All Industrial Relations Managers on Union Requests for Dust Count Records (1961)
…M complied with state rules and had adopted the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists' Threshold Limit Values as its standard, and to report any request from a union, committee or individual to headquarters at once…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 9, 1949
George K. Foster to A. R. Fisher on a Union Dust Clause in Quebec Arbitration (1949)
…in the alleviation of any nuisance arising from the existence of dust," through measures the company might "from time to time deem to be practical." Where the union's clause committed the company to remove dust…
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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 · December 25, 1981
K. G. Gulley Memo on Workers' Compensation Occupational Disease Files in Commercial Union v. Johns-Manville (1981)
…company knew describes this document as follows: In a memorandum to Robert S. Venning, Esq. of Heller Erman, White & McAuliffe re Commercial Union v. Johns-Manville, dated 12/25/81, regarding Workers' Compensation Files, K.G…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 27, 1949
Ontario Division of Industrial Hygiene to W. A. Young on Dust Counts at the Port Union Plant (1949)
…of the Division of Industrial Hygiene at the Parliament Buildings in Toronto to W. A. Young of Canadian Johns-Manville at Port Union, Ontario, reporting samples from five places in the plant's Transite pipe operations…
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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 · December 11, 1980
M. A. Tappin to W. B. Reitze on Refusing Unions Retirees' Medical Records (1980)
…The question came up again at Long Beach in 1982 (Falter to the International Chemical Workers Union). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as…