81 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 3 of 5
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 4, 1962
H. E. Persinger and K. J. Garska, Summary Report on Health Hazard of Insulation Material: Determination of Alpha-Quartz by X-Ray Diffraction (1962)
Summary report on X-ray diffraction testing of two thermal insulation materials used at the Institute Plant, Owens Corning's Kaylo and Johns Manville's Thermo-Bestos, to determine alpha-quartz content. It reports that both…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 21, 1962
R. J. Sexton to Plant Manager Transmitting Peele's Industrial Hygiene Survey of 'Thermobestos' and 'Kaylo' Insulation Block Dust, Plant 511/512 (1962)
…Insulation Shop, Building 511-2018, where Johns-Manville 'Thermobestos' and Owens Corning 'Kaylo' insulation blocks were sawed. The letter says the report found 'Thermobestos' dust a definite health hazard with silicosis as the ultimate outcome, that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 4, 1962
R. J. Sexton to S. C. Giambruno on the Insulation Block Dust Survey of Johns-Manville "Thermobestos" at the Institute Plant (1962)
…hygienist R. E. Peele's 3 December 1962 memo and the enclosed 1962 industrial hygiene survey of dust from sawing Johns-Manville "Thermobestos" and Owens-Corning "Kaylo" insulation blocks. The memo recounts the earlier reports, a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 16, 1963
Handwritten Desk Diary Page for Thursday, May 16, 1963, Listing Calls and Meetings (1963)
…contacts and meetings. From the image, the entries appear to include a meeting at Owens-Corning about a dust technique for air analysis, and items on an acetyl benzene unit and residues. The writer is not…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 3, 1972
Handwritten Note to R. F. Hunt on Asbestos-Free Substitutes for Calcium Silicate Pipe Insulation, with Cover Note to Fred (1972)
…Ceramospray is asbestos-free but suited mainly to large surfaces, that the only major piping insulations containing asbestos are calcium silicates (Owens-Corning Kaylo and Johns-Manville Thermobestos), and listing asbestos-free substitutes by temperature range…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1963
Handwritten Daily Calendar Notes on Radiation Source Checks, Dust Sampling and AIHA, with Atmospheric Dust Table (1963)
…of Tank 1087, radiation sources, dust analysis and sampling techniques, a meeting with Bob Estep of Owens Corning, and a trip to AIHA. A fourth page is a typed table of atmospheric dust concentration test data.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 4, 1979
Michael London, 'Insurers Set for Asbestos Claims,' Hartford Courant (1979)
…preparing for asbestos-related claims, citing reserve amounts, claim counts, settlement averages and insurance arrangements of manufacturers such as Johns-Manville and Owens-Corning. Page 2 carries a handwritten marginal note that is only partly legible.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 21, 1935
Owens-Illinois Glass Company letter to Dr. L. R. Thompson, U.S. Public Health Service, Forwarding Temporary Organization Committee Reports on an Industrial Dust Study Organization (1935)
National Archives certification, signed by Milton O. Gustafson, 06-15-93 Owens-Illinois Glass Company letter, March 21, 1935, to Dr. L. R. Thompson, U.S. Public Health Service Temporary Organization Committee letter of February 6…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 5, 1986
G. B. Elder to C&P Plant Distribution on Proposed Policy Banning Purchase of Asbestos-Containing Materials After 1989, with Attachments (1986)
Cover memo from G. B. Elder to plant and department contacts transmitting a proposed Chemicals and Plastics policy that no asbestos-containing materials be purchased after January 1, 1989, with background on the EPA exposure limit change and cost…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 15, 1983
Owen L. Campbell (Brown & Root) to B. F. Brittain (Union Carbide) Proposing Changes to Plant Maintenance Services Contracts, with Wage Schedules and Internal Transmittal (1983)
Letter from Owen L. Campbell, Brown & Root, to B. F. Brittain, Union Carbide, September 15, 1983, proposing changes to maintenance services contracts Exhibit B wage rate schedules for Brownsville and Seadrift, Texas (Contract No. 100-87860…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 19, 1972
John L. Myers to Rawlings Forwarding Degussa Letter on Withdrawal of Asbestos Thickeners A-14 and A-28, with Translations (1972)
A Union Carbide inter-company reply memo with a handwritten note from John L. Myers, subject "Calidria" Asbestos, forwarding a German Degussa customer letter and an English translation. The attachments include Degussa's November 1971 letter…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Comments on EPA Draft Form 'Reporting Industrial and Commercial Use of Asbestos Fiber', with EPA Test Memo and Completed Test Form
The exhibit opens with four pages of unsigned general comments on an EPA draft form for reporting industrial and commercial use of asbestos fiber. The comments cover the form's instructions for a miner and miller…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 21, 1986
E. D. DeLoughy to T. P. Raby on Continental Insurance Company Inspections, with South Charleston Plant Asbestos Removal Procedure (1986)
The exhibit opens with a Union Carbide internal letter from the Insurance Department to T. P. Raby. The letter explains that Continental Insurance Company replaced the earlier NATLSCO program for workers compensation and would inspect Union…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 11, 1985
Asbestos International Association Memo Circulating Gross Brake Dust Abstract, with Lewinsohn, Meigs and Teta Drafts on Connecticut Mesothelioma (1985)
The exhibit opens with an Asbestos International Association memorandum dated 11 September 1985. In it the Director General circulated the abstract of a paper by Dr. Paul Gross on asbestos-related disease from brake dust and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 24, 1982
List of Available Speech Copies and Programme with Speaker Biographies and Abstracts, World Symposium on Asbestos, Montreal (1982)
The exhibit opens with a two-page list of 32 speakers whose speech copies were available from the World Symposium on Asbestos (May 24-27, 1982). It is followed by the symposium's printed programme for…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 11, 1979
Union Carbide High-Purity Asbestos Paperboard Information Sheet, with J. L. Myers's History of the 'Calidria' Asbestos Business and Attachments (1979)
The exhibit opens with a Union Carbide "Asbestos Information" sheet promoting its high-purity asbestos as a filler and retention aid for paperboard, with two mill-trial summaries. It continues with J. L. Myers's 1979…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 6, 1982
Customer Call Report on International Building Products Inc. (Asbestos-Cement Sheet) with Prescott Letter, Ontario Research Foundation Reports on Atlas Fibre, and a September 1982 Follow-up Call Report (1982)
The exhibit opens with a Calidria customer call report dated April 6, 1982, on a visit to International Building Products Inc. of New Orleans, an asbestos-cement sheet maker interested in buying the King City plant…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Hazard-by-Medical-Requirements Tables and OSHA Asbestos and Lead Standard Reference File Pages (undated)
The exhibit opens with a two-page table (shown twice) listing workplace hazards (asbestos, inorganic lead, noise, respirator users, silica, air contaminants, hot environments, fork lift drivers, welding fumes) against required medical and monitoring items, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 1, 1973
Asbestos Information Association Memorandum to Members on FDA Proposed Rulemaking 'Asbestos Particles in Food and Drugs', with Federal Register Notice and Union Carbide Asbestos Correspondence (1973)
A 12-page exhibit that opens with an October 1, 1973 Asbestos Information Association memorandum to members about the FDA's proposed rulemaking on asbestos particles in food and drugs. The memorandum says the Association plans…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Gilmour Heavy Duty Wash Gun and Foam Gun Parts/Price List and Operating Instructions, with Attached Price Table and Form (undated)
Four-page exhibit. It opens with a Gilmour parts/price list and exploded diagram for sprayer models 73QG wash gun and 75QGF foam gun, followed by operating instructions for the same guns. Two rotated pages follow…