14 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 25, 1983
Batson-Cook Company (Hugh L. Cotton) to Union Carbide on Asbestos Dust Tests and News Coverage, Memorial Medical Center, Savannah (1983)
…article by Tom Barton, July 21, 1983, on asbestos added to the floor compound at Memorial Medical Center Letter, Union Carbide Corporation Metals Division to Hugh Cotten, Batson Cook Company, July 20, 1983, about Calidria RG…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 15, 1983
John Crane to Roger Wolff: Marked-Up Draft Press Statement on Calidria RG-244 and the Savannah Hospital Incident (1983)
Two copies of a short draft press statement, 'if needed', about a Savannah hospital incident. The statement describes Calidria asbestos RG-244 as a short-fiber chrysotile used where it is embedded in resin. Both copies carry handwritten cross-outs…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 22, 1983
H. C. Lewinsohn to H. B. Rhodes on Asbestos Toxicology and the IRDA Genotoxicity Item (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which the Assistant Corporate Medical Director comments on an IRDA item, "Further Evidence that Asbestos is not Genotoxic." He says the in vitro findings cannot be related to human exposure, that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 15, 1983
R. W. Rebholz to W. C. Thurber on Substituting a Revised Asbestos Label for the OSHA Label (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo from R. W. Rebholz to W. C. Thurber proposing that a different attached label replace the OSHA-mandated asbestos label on UCC asbestos products shipped to U.S. users, subject to OSHA…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 22, 1983
H. C. Lewinsohn to H. B. Rhodes on Asbestos Toxicology and the IRDA Note on Genotoxicity (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Assistant Corporate Medical Director commenting on an IRDA item, "Further Evidence that Asbestos is not Genotoxic." He wrote that the in vitro findings could not be related to human exposure…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 29, 1982
H. B. Rhodes to D. L. Haywood on Reporting Health and Safety Studies to EPA under TSCA Section 8(d), with Attached Mellon Institute Covers and King City Sputum Cytology Papers (1982)
Internal Metals Division memo from H. B. Rhodes listing the items the division had identified as potentially reportable under TSCA Section 8(d): two Mellon Institute asbestos reports, King City mill sputum cytology summaries, and a deposition by Dr.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 22, 1983
L. A. Crisorio to T. W. Carmody et al. Transmitting Minutes of April 7, 1983 Meeting on the Financial Impact of the Miller Bill (1983)
Internal memo transmitting minutes of an April 7, 1983 ad hoc meeting that reviewed the financial impact on the Metals Division of a proposed Miller Bill to fund compensation for asbestos and other toxic substance claims. The attachments include…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 21, 1982
R. W. Rebholz to W. C. Kuryla on Asbestos Labeling and Cigarette Smoking (1982)
Internal Union Carbide memo following up on an October 20 memorandum. It reports a suggestion that a new asbestos label warn that cancer risk from asbestos exposure is increased by cigarette smoking, summarizes Dr. Selikoff's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 2, 1984
T. Guy Fortney, M.D. to J. L. Myers on the May 1984 King City Site Visit and Medical Program Recommendations (1984)
Internal correspondence from Union Carbide's western regional medical director to the King City plant manager following a site visit, praising the medical program and enclosing recommendations. The enclosures review the results of the 1982 recommendations…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 16, 1982
H. B. Rhodes to N. B. Haubold on the 1982 Industrial Hygiene Sampling Program for Plateau Mining Operations (1982)
Cover memo from H. B. Rhodes transmitting the revised 1982 Industrial Hygiene Sampling Program for Plateau Mining Operations, followed by the program text and tables. The program discusses 1981 respirable dust and silica results at the Plateau…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 21, 1982
R. W. Rebholz to Dr. W. C. Kuryla on Asbestos Labeling and Cigarette Smoking (1982)
Internal Union Carbide memo following up on an October 20 memorandum, noting a suggestion that a new asbestos label warn that cancer risk from asbestos exposure is increased by cigarette smoking. It summarizes Dr. Selikoff's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 9, 1983
R. W. Rebholz to R. A. Butler and Others Circulating Proposed Asbestos Product Label Text (1983)
A one-paragraph internal memo from R. W. Rebholz, dated March 9, 1983, said that Dr. Lewinsohn developed a "consensus" asbestos product label text after a March 7 meeting and asked for early comments. The attached text is a warning headed "Cancer…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 3, 1983
Ed Van Den Ameele to S. L. Baye, W. F. McClure and R. F. Wolff on a Proposed Press Statement About the OSHA Emergency Asbestos Standard (1983)
Memorandum sending the Law Department and Metals Division a draft press statement, prepared by John Meyers at King City, responding to OSHA's emergency temporary asbestos standard. The draft says the company did not expect short-term adverse effects…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 29, 1984
H. B. Rhodes to J. L. Myers Enclosing Final Artwork for the Calidria Asbestos Product Label (1984)
…product label was enclosed and that this completed the label revision for the present. The enclosed label (page 2) is headed 'Chrysotile Asbestos, Warning, Cancer Hazard' and carries the Calidria Corporation name and King City address.