91 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 3 of 5
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 21, 1952
Plant Medical Director to Plant Manager Transmitting Industrial Hygiene Survey of 'Thermobestos' Insulation Block Dust, Plant 512 (1952)
A letter from the Plant 512 Medical Director to the Plant Manager and a distribution list, enclosing an Industrial Hygiene Department report by Mr. Poole on a dust problem in the Construction Insulation Shop. The letter says 'Thermobestos' dust was…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 28, 1954
Memo on Silica Hazard Consultation with R. B. Mosely, with API Toxicological Review of Silica (1954)
Exhibit behind a 'Toxicity Data - Silica' tab. It holds a one-page note dated October 28, 1954 on a consultation with R. B. Mosely of the Petroleum Refining Department about silica dust, and an American Petroleum Institute Toxicological Review of…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1956
Allied Services, Inc. Purchase Requisition and Commodity Cards for Foamglas Insulation Bought from Asbestos and Insulating Co. (1956)
Set of rotated stock-card and purchase requisition and commodity card forms, front and back, for Foamglas block insulation (e.g., 1-1/2" and 2" flat block, and 8" line size pipe insulation). The cards show quantities, prices, buyer initials,…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1956
Purchase Requisition and Commodity Card for 3-Inch Kaylo 20 Calcium Silicate Pipe Insulation, Charleston, W. Va. (1956-1965)
A two-page purchase requisition and commodity card, with the reverse side on page 2, for 3" pipe size x 2" thick high temperature calcium silicate pipe insulation, Kaylo 20, stocked for a building at a Charleston, W. Va. works. It has a handwritten…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 1959
ACGIH Threshold Limit Values for 1959 (Adopted April 25-28, 1959)
A 7-page list of threshold limit values adopted at the 21st Annual Meeting of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists in 1959. Page 1 states how the limits are to be used, and the following pages tabulate recommended values for…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1952
Joseph B. Singer, Plastics in Building (The Architectural Press, London, 1952)
A 1952 British book on the use of plastics in building. The title page and contents show chapters on the merits and limitations of plastics, raw materials and processing, history, and exterior work such as walls, sheet plastics, plywood and…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 1959
M. S. Badollet and N. W. Edgerton, Properties of Asbestos Fibres Imported into the United States (1959)
Technical paper reporting tests on the physical and electrical properties of long-grade asbestos fibres imported into the United States over eight years. Fibres tested included chrysotile from Rhodesia, British Columbia, Quebec and Africa, plus…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 25, 1958
Special Report from London on the Ciba Foundation Symposium "Carcinogenesis: Mechanisms of Action" (1958)
A published special report from London on a Ciba Foundation symposium on the mechanisms of carcinogenesis, held June 22 to 26 before the Seventh International Cancer Congress. It summarizes papers on plastic-film carcinogenesis (the Oppenheimer…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 1956
M. S. Badollet and M. R. Ximenez, 'The Role of Asbestos in Plastics', Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Bulletin (1956)
Published paper presented at the April 1956 Annual General Meeting in Quebec City, reviewing the use of asbestos, chiefly chrysotile, as a filler in cold-molded, thermoplastic and thermosetting plastics. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 1958
M. S. Badollet and J. P. McGourty, Identification of Minerals Associated with Asbestos by X-Ray Diffraction Patterns (1958)
Journal article reporting X-ray diffraction identification of minerals (serpentine, chrysotile, brucite, chlorite, and others) in asbestos and associated rock samples from Quebec and Ontario mines. It compares the X-ray results with H. C. Cooke's…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 1958
Braun and Truan, An Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer in Asbestos Miners, reprint from A.M.A. Archives of Industrial Health (1958)
Reprint of a 1958 journal article reporting a study of lung cancer deaths among Quebec asbestos miners, supported by a grant from the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association. The authors reviewed earlier literature, followed a cohort of 5,958 miners from…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 1956
M. S. Badollet and M. B. Ximenez, "The Role of Asbestos in Plastics," with M. S. Badollet, "Asbestos Floats" (CIM Transactions, 1956 and 1952)
Exhibit consists of two reprinted technical papers from CIM Transactions. The first reviews the use of asbestos fibre as a filler in cold-molded, thermoplastic and thermosetting plastics, including advantages and disadvantages of chrysotile. The…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Company document · Motley 1000 · October 11, 1956
W. L. Bowes to John D. Black on the Asbestos Workers Union's Lung Study (1956)
…Toledo), 10/11/56, re investigation conducted by Asbestos Workers Union in Hartford, Connecticut into the lung conditions of its members. Some results indicate that "fibrous products were detrimental." Bowes indicates that investigations are also being…
-
Company document · Motley 1000 · November 20, 1956
Ira I. Brought to M. D. Burch on Meeting the Asbestos Workers Union's International Officers (1956)
…re conference with the international officers of the Asbestos Workers Union concerning the health investigation being conducted by several of its locals in the New England area with respect to fiber glass. Related documents John D…
-
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…