532 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 26 of 27
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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 · September 19, 1968
Dr. Leonard J. Bristol to H. M. Jackson on the Billerica Plant Chest X-Rays (1968)
…reading a series of chest X-rays from J-M's Billerica Plant in Massachusetts and sent 59 reports and 12 forms using the new classification of the Cincinnati and International Union Against Cancer (UICC) committee…
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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 · January 13, 1960
National Insulation Manufacturers Association Winter Meeting Minutes (1960)
…17 insulation makers attended, among them five men from Johns-Manville Sales Corporation (including J. B. Jobe), along with Eagle-Picher, Keasbey & Mattison, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning, Union Asbestos & Rubber and others, plus the association…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1969
Selikoff, Pundsack and Hammond, "Fibrous Dust Respirator Protection: Designing for Workman Acceptance and Effectiveness" (1969)
…against chrysotile, but noted that amosite and crocidolite had not been tested. In two-day field trials with union members and an insulation contractor, men wearing a J-M prototype with an exhalation valve, the same…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1966
Occupational hazards of pipe insulators
…glass, asbestos-containing, plastic, adhesive and other insulating materials. The authors also analyzed adhesive solvents by gas chromatography and followed the 47 men listed as union members on Jan 1, 1939. By Jan 1, 1964, 33…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
An interdisciplinary approach to measurement
…associated with asbestos exposure. Dr V Timbrell discussed how dust deposition in the lung influenced the choice of particle sizes for the International Union Against Cancer's standard reference samples of asbestos. Dr J C Wagner…
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Government report · 1968
Occupational Safety and Health: Hearings Before the Select Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, on H.R. 14816 (1968)
…testimony and prepared statement of Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine on six years of research among asbestos insulation workers: excess deaths among 632 union members, lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis…
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Company document · JM Litigation Chronology · August 21, 1968
Johns-Manville Board of Directors Minutes on Asbestos and Health (1968–1972)
…management "recognized, probably more so than the company's competitors in the insulation field, the potential hazards." An advisory group was formed of A. E. Hutchinson of the Asbestos Workers Union, Dr. F. L. Pundsack and…
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Company document · WARD Documents · February 11, 1969
W. P. Howard of the Asbestos Information Committee to F. J. Solon on Caution Labels for Overseas Shipments (1969)
What it shows Howard's worry was that American transport workers who saw the labels would pass their "disquiet" to the Transport and General Workers Union, "whose members largely control the passage of cargoes through British…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 21, 1966
George W. Hatch of Travelers Insurance to Jack C. Else of Marsh and McLennan on Asbestos Cancer Claims and the Sullivan Case (1966)
…Irving J. Selikoff of Mount Sinai for the claimant, including his finding of 14 mesothelioma deaths among 307 consecutive deaths in the insulators' union, and the weaker testimony of the insurer's own doctor. Travelers' medical…
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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…