5,238 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 173 of 262
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 28, 1972
Airborne Dust Counts for Welco Manufacturing Company, Dallas, Texas (1972)
Union Carbide Mining and Metals Division report on airborne asbestos fiber and total dust counts taken on October 20, 1972 at Welco Manufacturing Company's tape joint compound plant in Dallas. It describes the sampling method…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 24, 1971
B. L. Ingalls to J. W. Rawlings Transmitting Draft Section on Asbestos Handling Procedures for the 'Information Package on Asbestos Safety and Control' (1971)
A September 24, 1971 internal letter from B. L. Ingalls to J. W. Rawlings, copied to seven others, sending the draft of his assigned portion of an 'Information Package on Asbestos Safety and Control.' The attached draft covers handling of CALIDRIA…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 16, 1977
H. B. Rhodes to C. R. Allenbach on Toxic Substances Control Act Listings for Calidria Asbestos Products (1977)
Internal Metals Division memo from H. B. Rhodes to Dr. C. R. Allenbach responding to a request for data to prepare Toxic Substances Control Act listings. It lists additional Calidria chrysotile products and their approximate compositions, lists…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 4, 1968
D. Varoli to F. D. Dexter on Carve-Out Transaction, with Attached Workshop Presentation on Divesting the Asbestos Business (1968)
A one-page internal memo from D. Varoli to F. D. Dexter explains how a "carve-out" (selling next year's production in advance) works and why it is undesirable if the business is to be sold. It is followed by an undated, unsigned workshop talk and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 11, 1986
Asbestos Chronology for the Texas City Plant, OSHA Rule Compliance Steps (1986)
A one-page typed chronology of 13 numbered entries for the Texas City Plant, running from a May 1985 asbestos insulation action plan to a January 17, 1987 mandatory compliance date. It lists steps taken after publication of the OSHA asbestos rule,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 17, 1963
Memorandum on Noise and Other Industrial Hygiene Problems at the Seadrift, Texas City and Brownsville Plants (1963)
A 1963 memorandum in two parts. Part A discusses noise exposure and hearing impairment at the Seadrift, Texas City and Brownsville plants and the California noise-control law, and recommends voluntary compliance supported by an industrial hygienist.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 9, 1981
H. B. Rhodes to EPA's Stanley T. Cuffe Agreeing to a Calidria Mill Visit by EPA Contractors, with EPA's Request Letter and Enclosures (1981)
Letter, H. B. Rhodes (Union Carbide Metals Division) to Stanley T. Cuffe (EPA), March 9, 1981, agreeing to the King City mill visit and limiting information provided Letter, Stanley T. Cuffe (EPA) to Dr. Harry Rhodes…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 21, 1983
Manhar A. Patel to R. C. Proffitt on Asbestos Monitoring in the Storeroom, 511 Construction Department (1983)
Internal Union Carbide correspondence reporting a May 9, 1983 industrial hygiene monitoring survey of asbestos dust exposure while an employee handled asbestos spiral-wound gaskets in the 512 Construction Department storeroom. It reports that exposure above…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 18, 1965
E. F. Cox and W. C. Kuryla Status Report on "Hydrophobic" Asbestos as a Rigid Foam Filler (1965)
Status report on tests of "hydrophobic" asbestos (treated with about 10 wt.% stearic acid, supplied by N. J. Setter of the Mining and Metals Division) as a filler in NIAX T-248/T-600 rigid polyurethane foam. The authors reported degraded compression…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 22, 1989
J. B. Richard's Notice of Intention to Renovate Asbestos-Containing Lights Column, Building 94, Texas City Plant (1989)
Handwritten-in form (Attachment #1 to Plant Procedure SH-5.6, last revised 11/09/87) giving notice of intent to remove and dispose of friable asbestos material from a lights column and piping in Building 94 at the Texas City Plant. It lists the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 1986
L. R. Noble, South Charleston Technical Center Personnel Safety Department Highlights for October 1986 (1986)
Monthly safety highlights for the South Charleston Technical Center and its Construction Department, October 1986. It reports on-the-job and off-the-job injury and illness counts and gives notices on cold weather safety, fork lift training and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Handwritten Notes and Summary Table of Fiber Measurements for Dumping, Sanding, Spraying and Box Car Unloading (undated)
Handwritten notes and a handwritten summary table of numerical results for operations including dumping fiber and pellets, sanding (tape joint, painted surfaces, boat sections, furniture), spraying of resin, feeding a Banbury mixer and unloading a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 22, 1966
Memorandum to Sales Staff on Asbestos Toxicology and Newspaper Reports of the Mt. Sinai Laboratory (1966)
…It directs recipients to give customers Dr. Dernehl's 'Asbestos Toxicology Report' and to point to Union Carbide pellets as a low-dust way of handling asbestos. The text on the page is cut off at…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 1, 1987
T. L. Grittie, Industrial Hygiene Results for Area Monitoring Near Exposed Asbestos on Silanes Rectification Tower (1987)
One-page industrial hygiene report dated July 1, 1987, on an area air sample taken on 4/29/87 near exposed asbestos on a vertical line on the fourth deck of the Silanes Rectification tower. The single 386-minute sample was reported at
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 8, 1971
Research and Development Department (Niagara Falls) to F. H. Larrison on Product Specifications for Calidria SG-130 (1971)
Internal correspondence from the Calidria Research and Development Department to F. H. Larrison at King City reporting that Sherwin-Williams had included SG-130 asbestos in a new exterior texture paint formulation and requested purchase…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 8, 1976
Gordon L. Dickson Call Report on Westinghouse Research Labs' Asbestos Ban and Thixotrope Replacement for RG-144 (1976)
Customer call report of a 4/8/76 telephone contact with Gordon Gainer of Westinghouse Research Labs, Pittsburgh, about thixotropes for cyclo-aliphatic epoxy resins. It records that Westinghouse had apparently banned asbestos in its products and was…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 12, 1976
E. J. Kleber Call Report on Thermofil, Inc. (Brighton, MI) Meeting About RG-600 Asbestos-Filled Polypropylene (1976)
Customer call report on a 2/12/76 meeting with Don Pinkston, Technical Director of Thermofil, Inc., a custom thermoplastic compounder in Brighton, Michigan, to explore a use for RG-600 asbestos. It says Thermofil had an unnamed customer interested…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 11, 1963
J. A. Faucher, G. M. Bryant and J. V. Koleske, Polypropylene Resiliency Studies: Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Polypropylene, Asbestos-Filled Polypropylene, and Nylon 66 (1963)
Status report on torsion-pendulum tests of the mechanical loss and shear modulus of polypropylene, dyeable polypropylene, polypropylene filled with 10, 20 or 30% chrysotile asbestos, and nylon 66, studied as measures of carpet resiliency. It reports…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 5, 1986
Tom Reynolds to A.J. Caglione on Asbestos Pipe Insulation Removal in Lab 77L, Tarrytown (1986)
Internal memo summarizing the status of suspected asbestos pipe insulation in Lab 77L of the Linde building at Tarrytown, from its identification in September 1984 through removal by Allied maintenance personnel in January 1986. It reports that a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 17, 1970
R. E. Byrne, Jr. to L. Crowe on R-G244 and A-28 Test Results, pH and Viscosity Control, and Coarse Particles (1970)
Internal correspondence from the Niagara Falls office to the King City plant transmitting accumulated Niagara Falls test results for R-G244 and A-28 pallets. The memo discusses samples with high pH and low viscosity, a viscosity bias between King…