5,238 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 148 of 262
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 27, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. R. Guest on Asbestos Dust Monitoring at the Texas City Plant (1972)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which an industrial hygienist sent H. R. Guest the available asbestos dust study data for the Texas City plant. He listed limits on the data and said asbestos was still in…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 24, 1990
Texas City Plant Notice of Intention to Demolish or Renovate a Structure Containing Asbestos, Ethylene Glycols Unit Tank Farm (1990)
A completed Texas City Plant form (Plant Procedure SH-5.6, Attachment #1, page 3 of 3, last revised 11/09/87) giving notice of intention to renovate a facility containing asbestos material. The handwritten entries describe removing small sections of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 1985
Hazardous Condition Report No. 17-85 on Asbestos Gaskets, from W. D. Boggan to M. Collins, with Reply from W. K. Meadows, Plant 512 (1985)
A Plant 512 Hazardous Condition Report (form 512-2804E) in which an employee reported, as a health hazard, that asbestos gaskets were not stored in plastic bags or similar containers. The immediate supervisor received it on 6/18/85 and the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Calidria Asbestos Technical Report: Plasticizer Viscosity Control with RG-244 and RG-144
Calidria Asbestos technical report on using RG-244 and RG-144 chrysotile grades to thicken plasticizers. It describes the mixing and Brookfield viscometer test method and states that RG-244 outperformed Cab-O-Sil and Thixcin R. Two tables of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 25, 1977
W. F. Blythe, Jr. to A. S. Howard and Others on Asbestos Monitoring at Institute Powerhouse (1977)
Internal memo reporting air sampling on August 15, 1977 during removal of possibly asbestos-containing insulation at the Institute, West Virginia powerhouse. It reports personal sample results of 2.59 and 2.61 fibers/cc and an area sample of 0.48…
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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 · April 27, 1987
P. S. Petrunich to C. H. Pelanne on the C&P Division Asbestos Phase Out (1987)
Internal Union Carbide letter-memo dated April 27, 1987, reporting that the C&P Division had begun an effort to discontinue purchase of asbestos packings and gaskets worldwide by the end of 1988, with GRAFOIL and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 11, 1988
K. B. Purinton to W. C. Nycz on Three Year Plant Insulation Upgrade Program, Sistersville (1988)
Memo from K. B. Purinton at the Sistersville, WV plant setting out criteria for insulation to be included in a three-year plant insulation upgrade program, including asbestos insulation in areas of high mechanical disturbance. It states that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 6, 1964
G. D. Jacobs and J. A. Faucher, Status Report on Impact Modification of Asbestos-Phosphoric Acid Composition Board (1964)
Status report on Project 191G31, an effort to improve the impact strength of an asbestos-phosphoric acid-water composition board (P-38) made with Coalinga chrysotile from the Nuclear Division. It describes the background on chrysotile, the mixing,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 1986
Handwritten Note from Graham to Sal Rossi on the Plant Asbestos Program, with Jim D. Reply and Asbestos Repair Cost Estimates (1986)
A handwritten note from 'Graham' to Sal Rossi, stamped received March 11, 1986, says a maintenance person was leaving asbestos removal. It recalls that Bob Link had asked Ed Ballard to pull together the plant asbestos program and '838's, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 9, 1969
N. J. Setter to F. D. Dexter on the Asbestos Sales Report for August 1969 (1969)
Monthly asbestos sales report for August 1969 giving domestic and export sales in thousands of pounds and dollars against plan, with a breakdown by product type (paper additives, flooring, tape joint adhesives, oil well drilling, resin-grade). The…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 3, 1974
Mining and Metals Division King City Air Sample Results for November 1974, to Paul McDaniels, Medical Department (1974)
Internal correspondence from the King City Mining and Metals Division to the Medical Department in New York reporting November 1974 personal and area air sample results. Personal samples were reported for a palletizer-bagger operator, an RG-244…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 2, 1982
Customer Call Report on W. R. Grace Export Distributorship for SX14 and SX24, with T. P. Norris Letter to A. Rajala on Distributor Meeting and Asbestos Health Regulations (1982)
Page 1 is a Metals Division customer call report dated 2/2/82 on a meeting with W. R. Grace, an export distributor in New York, about Grace's exclusive contract to sell SX14 and SX24 in Mexico, Central America and South America. It records that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 15, 1979
H. H. Frazier to Peter Barna on Use of AMATEX Asbestos Tape in Plant 512 (1979)
Memo from H. H. Frazier to Peter Barna on three brands of insulating tape used at the Institute Plant. It reports that AMATEX tape contained raw asbestos fibers including dust, cites measurements of 0.03 to 1.9 fibers per cc at the Technical Center,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 10, 1975
H. B. Rhodes to Ken Campbell (Montello, Inc.) on a Mexican Asbestos Sample and Flosal Comparison Tables (1975)
Letter from H. B. Rhodes to Ken Campbell of Montello, Inc. responding to a request for comments on the source of a sample labeled a Mexican asbestos sample. Rhodes said the AEC test and wet bulk results showed the material differed from any Flosal…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Calidria Asbestos Resin Grade-144 and Resin Grade-244 Product Data Sheet
One-page Calidria Asbestos product sheet describing resin grades RG-144 and RG-244, chrysotile fiber products used as viscosity control agents and thixotropes in epoxies, sealants, adhesives, polyester resins, coatings and mastics. It includes a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 23, 1974
J. E. Walsh Call Reports on Heil Process (Houston) Dust Counts and the Loss of the Calidria 244 Account (1974)
Two Union Carbide call reports by J. E. Walsh on visits to Heil Process, a Houston maker of FRP tanks and vessels. The first (7/23/74) describes a presentation of OSHA regulations and dust count…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 16, 1976
Edward J. Kleber to Stephen Kolk (Steelcase) on Calidria RG-600/Polypropylene Concentrate Sample (1976)
Letter from Union Carbide's Midwest Sales representative to a Steelcase materials engineer saying 140 pounds of Calidria asbestos RG-600/polypropylene concentrate had been sent. It describes the resin and RG-600 loading, refers to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 3, 1979
Compilation on Shower Requirements for Asbestos Removal at the Texas City Plant, with Yalcinkaya Note to W. H. Barlow (1979)
Five-page exhibit from Union Carbide's Texas City plant. It holds a March 3, 1979 handwritten note on OSHA shower and change-room requirements for asbestos workers, a February 12, 1979 memo asking whether asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 26, 1974
E. A. Piersall to Dr. J. J. Welsh on Pulmonary Function Test Limits for Asbestos Workers (1974)
Internal letter from the Mining and Metals Division safety department to the corporate Medical Department following a phone call. It asked for guidelines on minimum pulmonary function levels for hiring and on action points for existing employees…