2,273 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 42 of 114
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 14, 1973
H. B. Rhodes to Sales and Management Staff on Revision of Emergency Temporary Standard on Certain Carcinogens and Customer Inquiries on Asbestos (1973)
Internal memo reporting that customers had asked whether asbestos is a carcinogen, a question tied to an OSHA regulation defining carcinogen by a list of fourteen organic compounds that does not include asbestos. It told recipients they could say…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 20, 1973
F. H. Larrison Jr. to Paul McDaniel Transmitting July 1973 King City Dust Counts, with Handwritten Note to "Bill" (1973)
A three-page set: a handwritten note dated 9-20-73 to "Bill", a July 20, 1973 internal memo from F. H. Larrison Jr. at King City to Paul McDaniel in the New York Medical Department enclosing July 1973 dust particle counts, and a data sheet of dust…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 14, 1978
N. W. Clauss to V. H. Johnkoski, Jr., Transmitting the Process and Equipment Operating Safety Training Manual, with Asbestos-Litigation Audit Cover Sheet (1978)
Union Carbide cover sheet: document flagged as possibly relating to asbestos, to be preserved for asbestos litigation defense (Audit Report No. WV-0233, File No. 21) Internal correspondence, Clauss to Johnkoski, 14 Aug 1978, transmitting the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 4, 1979
John L. Myers Memo on Air Carriage of Asbestos, with 1977 Correspondence with EPA on Spray-On Asbestos Materials (1979)
A compilation of Union Carbide Metals Division and EPA papers. A June 1979 internal memo says Mr. Alexander confirmed that asbestos is not covered by the restrictions on a card about carrying hazardous materials aboard aircraft…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 2, 1975
John L. Myers to D. Varacallo, Jr., Journal of Coatings Technology, Returning Marked Proofs of "Handling Asbestos: Chrysotile Asbestos in Plastics" (1975)
A one-paragraph cover letter from John L. Myers to the Journal of Coatings Technology returns a proof with his comments marked in red. The enclosed author's proofs are Myers's article "Handling Asbestos: Chrysotile Asbestos in Plastics." The article…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 16, 1978
John L. Myers to G. R. Adams on 1977 Calidria Export Sales Summary (1978)
Internal memo summarizing 1977 export sales of Calidria asbestos, reported as a record year, with six regional developments (Brazil, Australia, Japan/Tomoe, Grace-Europe, Mercomed, Daubert/Holland). It closes with a note on health problems abroad…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 11, 1974
B. L. Ingalls to H. B. Rhodes Transmitting the RG-244 Quality Control Study, with Appended Commentaries (1974)
A July 11, 1974 internal cover memo from B. L. Ingalls to H. B. Rhodes transmits his June 27, 1974 interim report on quality control of RG-244, the silica-treated Calidria asbestos product. The report covers wet-end testing at the King City plant…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 2, 1976
J. E. Skvarla to R. G. Woolery on a Wetted Dust-Free Supervisbestos Product and Improved Product Quality (1976)
Internal memo from J. E. Skvarla to R. G. Woolery responding to W. C. Thurber's letters on improving Supervisbestos. It proposes making a dust-free wetted product by blending S V filter cake with dry pellets in the Lancaster mixer, citing Niagara…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 10, 1979
R. E. Byrne, Jr. to Calidria Distributors Urging a Customer Hazard-Notification Program, with Attached Distributor Mailing List (1979)
A September 10, 1979 form letter from R. E. Byrne, Jr. urging Calidria distributors to start a program, repeated roughly yearly, to inform their customers of possible hazards of using and handling asbestos. The letter says such a program is evidence…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1973
J. L. Myers and E. J. Kleber Report of Call on Georgia-Pacific, Akron, NY, on OSHA Citation and Dust Control (1973)
…Pacific's Akron, NY plant after the plant's OSHA asbestos citation. It records the $3000 fine, drawings of Union Carbide's bagging enclosure left with Georgia-Pacific, product samples, dust samples taken, and an observation…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 6, 1975
R. G. Woolery to Professor P. K. Mehta on Shelving the Asbestos Tailings Cement Additive Study (1975)
Letter from R. G. Woolery to Professor P. K. Mehta of the University of California, Berkeley, thanking him for his response to a request for exploratory studies on using asbestos tailings as a cement additive. Woolery wrote that legal advice was…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 17, 1974
E. J. Kleber to C. C. Masterman on Asbestos Fiber Counts in Building 166 Laboratories (1974)
Internal memo reporting air sampling for asbestos fibers collected December 11, 1974 in laboratories 112, 116 and 158 of Building 166, Niagara Falls. It lists four samples (three personal, one environmental) with fiber counts of 0.1 to 0.3 fibers/cc…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 6, 1973
John L. Myers to R. F. X. Fusaro Transmitting SPE-RETEC Presentation on Calidria Asbestos Marketing, with Press Clippings and OSHA Letter (1973)
A one-page internal memo from John L. Myers to the Law Department enclosing a copy of his oral presentation to the SPE-RETEC and its transparencies, and asking for review for possible presentation to other groups. Attached are a Plastics Technology…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 5, 1977
John L. Myers to R. L. Schult, W. C. Thurber and R. G. Woolery Forwarding a Columbia Journalism Review Article on Selikoff, NIOSH and the ANPA (1977)
…paper, cites R. G. Woolery's papers on asbestos in paper-making and Union Carbide's marketing of high-purity asbestos for pitch control, and quotes Myers on when asbestos use in paper began and declined.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 31, 1977
John L. Myers to Linda Chaput (EPA) on Proposed Exemption from the Asbestos Spraying Prohibition (1977)
Letter from Union Carbide's Marketing Manager to an EPA official confirming an August 30 telephone conversation about proposed wording of an exemption from the asbestos spraying prohibition. It states support for an exemption for spray…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 6, 1975
J. E. Walsh Call Report on Georgia Pacific (Dr. Bornstein) Regarding a New Adhesive Using Calidria 244 (1975)
Call report by J. E. Walsh of a call made with H. B. Rhodes to Dr. Bornstein, Research Director at Georgia Pacific (Decatur, Georgia), to update him on toxicology. It records Georgia Pacific's decision on which Calidria grade to use in a new…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 24, 1977
F. D. Bess to R. A. Huber et al. on Proposed Action Plan for EPA Asbestos (Insulation) Regulation, with Related January 1977 Memos and Clipping (1977)
A February 24, 1977 internal letter from F. D. Bess reported progress on six action steps for deciding whether the EPA hazardous air pollutant regulation (40 CFR Part 61) applies to removal and disposal of asbestos-containing insulation at Chemicals…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 30, 1979
John L. Myers Oral Presentations to the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board on Asbestos Action Levels and Medical Surveillance, with Baker Botts Cover Letters (1979-1980)
Six versions of John L. Myers's prepared texts and speaking notes for hearings of the California Standards Board on the Title 8 asbestos general industry safety orders (August 30, 1979 in San Diego; May 29, 1980 in Fresno). Each is preceded or…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 26, 1977
E. J. Kleber to R. Hillerman (Allied Materials) on RG-244 and RG-110 Calidria, with Enclosed Roofing Compound Report (1977)
A two-page sales letter from Edward J. Kleber to R. Hillerman at Allied Materials about Calidria RG-244 as a pyrogenic silica substitute in vinyl plastisol, with packaging and delivered-price details and a note on RG-110 against Canadian asbestos.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 10, 1975
H. B. Rhodes Report of Call on GDCI Executive Board Meeting in Tulsa (1975)
Report of call by H. B. Rhodes on a special GDCI Executive Board meeting in Tulsa, OK, to which he was invited to discuss the asbestos-health situation and OSHA activities. It also records a conversation with D. B. Green of the Gypsum Drywall…