24 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 3, 1969
Matthew M. Swetonic (Johns-Manville) to J. A. Riddle on Sending Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program Reports (1969)
…Riddle, Union Carbide, July 3, 1969, enclosing IIHRP reports Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports, Vol. 1 No. 1 (Spring 1969), from the Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program at Mount Sinai: program funding, advisory council, respirator, PHS cooperation…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · 1962
Johns-Manville File on William S. McKinney's Ohio Workmen's Compensation Claim (1962)
…of Ohio Bureau of Workmen's Compensation in 1962. McKinney alleged that he contracted asbestosis in both lungs while employed by J-M in removing insulation materials at Union Carbide's Bakelite Company in Marietta, Ohio…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 22, 1968
W. L. Ruff's Notes of a Manville Union-Management Meeting on Dust, Noise and Examination Results (1968)
What it shows The union's complaint, recorded in the company's own notes, concerns a practice that runs through J-M's earlier papers: not telling workers what their examinations showed (see Dr. Kenneth Smith…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 30, 1961
C. L. Sheckler to All Industrial Relations Managers on Union Requests for Dust Count Records (1961)
…M complied with state rules and had adopted the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists' Threshold Limit Values as its standard, and to report any request from a union, committee or individual to headquarters at once…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 25, 1964
J. B. Jobe to D. L. Hinmon on Labeling Asbestos Products to Lessen Claims (1964)
…25/64 states: "In view of the importance being given to the subject by the Asbestos Workers Union it is our belief that we should take advantage of any items which could lessen our exposure to…
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Company document · WARD Documents · March 11, 1969
H. M. Jackson to All Plant, Mill and Mine Managers on Explaining the Membrane Filter Technique to Unions (1969)
…that J-M would measure asbestos dust by counting fibers on a membrane filter in the worker's breathing zone. Jackson's addition was that unions and employees should be told about the new method too.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 10, 1960
C. L. Sheckler and Others on a Mandatory Respirator Program at the Manville Plant (1960)
…though there is a recognized health hazard and we may be generating additional O.D. [occupational disease] cases," because of "our vulnerable position from the Union and the State standpoint" and the added wage cost. W…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 16, 1965
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to N. W. Hendry, "Asbestos versus Cancer" (1965)
…s main problem with the report is that the men examined, who were called "asbestos workers," were men who belonged to the asbestos workers union, a group of men who are exposed to asbestos fiber along…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 25, 1964
G. A. Wall to J. G. Moore and Others on Dryer Standards at Manville (1964)
…Grote and R. Wyllie on a union grievance over the production standards for pulling dryer cars and unloading pipe covering at the Manville plant. Wall listed the changes since the standards were set in 1946 and…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 3, 1964
Kenneth W. Smith to E. W. Redd of Leed Insulator Corporation on Asbestosis (1964)
…this document as follows: Dr. K.W. Smith letter to E.W. Redd (Leed Insulator Corporation) dated 12/3/64, responding to Redd's inquiry concerning asbestosis and insulation workers. Referring to the Selikoff report, Dr…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 18, 1969
Johns-Manville Environmental Health Task Force Policy Committee Minutes, August 1969 (1969)
…Marchant's advice, J-M would not work with the labor federation's Industrial Union Department (IUD) on asbestos and health on a company-wide or industry-wide basis, but would "identify and solve these problems…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 8, 1960
A. B. Marchant to A. K. Higbee on Waukegan's Handling of a Compensation Case (1960)
…in the past year "with terms favorable to the company," with "a minimum amount of legal expense and a minimum degree of Union interest." The plant's medical department problems continued that fall (Seppala to Mulder…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 5, 1966
C. L. Hite to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on the X-Rays of Marrero Worker Steve Cedotal (1966)
…whether workers should be told of their own diagnoses, comes up again in J-M's union talks in 1968 (union-management meeting notes, 1968). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 18, 1966
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to O. A. Battista of Food Machinery Corporation on Asbestos Health Hazards (1966)
…to Hendry, 1965), now sent to an outside company: the men were "asbestos workers" only by union membership, and Smith did not believe there was "a serious health hazard associated with the use of asbestos, particularly…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 10, 1966
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith's "Health Projects" Talk at the Johns-Manville Industrial Relations Conference (1966)
…your production schedules or upset your employee relations." He also described J-M's part in a planned health research institute of the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association and his appointment to the International Union Against Cancer…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · May 19, 1969
Edmund M. Fenner, Industrial Pneumoconiosis Prevention and Control (1969)
…J-M adopted the threshold limit the Saranac scientists suggested. He described the insulators' program as jointly paid for by Johns-Manville and the asbestos workers' union, for "the men who apply and remove pipe and…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 13, 1969
H. M. Jackson, Manville Textile Plant Survey by the New Fiber-Count Method (1969)
…A "premium" for respirator work, he wrote, would have to be negotiated with the union, and "without such an approach, numerous difficulties are anticipated." At the time J-M's limit for asbestos fiber was 12…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 10, 1966
Johns-Manville Industrial Relations Conference Leaders' Reports on Working Conditions (1966)
…conditions," and one group wrote that where poor conditions existed the company should act "rather than allow the union to force the issue." One group also asked whether J-M should have "full-time people to…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 25, 1968
Manville Pipe Plant Manager's Notice on Mandatory Respirators and Ear Protection (1968)
…managers had told the union at Manville that workers who refused protective equipment would be disciplined (see the February 1968 union-management meeting). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 3, 1968
J. R. M. Hutcheson to N. W. Hendry on a Caution Label for Asbestos Fiber Bags (1968)
…asbestos customers be advised in advance of this step, "otherwise they might have union problems." Hendry and others go about drafting a letter indicating that beginning shortly, J-M will be labeling each bag of chrysotile…