12 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 7, 1979
J. C. Ledvina to J. H. Barrett and Others on an OSHA Visit to the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal memo reporting a visit by two OSHA representatives to the Texas City plant to discuss ethylene production and ethylene oxide use. It lists nine points from the discussion, including OSHA's interest in brain tumors among plant workers, a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 31, 1979
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Complaint Investigation at the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's follow-up inspection on October 30, 1979 at the Texas City Plant, prompted by employee complaints of overexposure to ozone, argon and metal fumes while welding…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 14, 1979
J. B. Leverton to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation at the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's March 14, 1979 visit to the Texas City plant to investigate an employee complaint about mercury catalyst and vinyl chloride exposure. It states that his sampling…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1972
D. E. Deese to Distribution on OSHA Respiratory Protection Requirement for Asbestos Tear-Out (1972)
Memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to a list of Union Carbide recipients reporting OSHA's interpretation of respiratory protection for asbestos tear-out or removal. It states that OSHA's Delbert Flowers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 27, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. R. Guest on Asbestos Dust Monitoring at the Texas City Plant (1972)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which an industrial hygienist sent H. R. Guest the available asbestos dust study data for the Texas City plant. He listed limits on the data and said asbestos was still in…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 14, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. B. Coons and Others on the OSHA Permanent Asbestos Standard (1972)
A June 14, 1972 memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to Texas City managers and a physician. It summarizes 18 requirements of OSHA's first permanent asbestos standard, including exposure limits, monitoring, medical examinations…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 30, 1972
D. E. Deese Texas City Industrial Hygiene Memos and Letters on Asbestos Sampling and Monitoring (1972-1973)
Compilation of Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics industrial hygiene papers, mostly by D. E. Deese of the Gulf Coast Area. It holds a June 1972 memo transmitting an equipment list for personal asbestos dust sampling under…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 14, 1973
Industrial Hygiene Department Preliminary Report on Asbestos Gasket Cutting in Salvage Stores, Bldg. 281, Plant 515, with Dust Study Sheets (1973)
A preliminary industrial hygiene report dated 11/14/73 on monitoring asbestos gasket cutting operations in Salvage Stores, Bldg. 281, Plant 515. It reports that personnel and general area samples were all below one fiber per cc longer than five…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 9, 1979
Harvey R. Schulz to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Complaint Investigation at the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's September 28, 1979 visit to the Texas City Plant to investigate an employee complaint about road dust north of the #3 Olefins furnaces. It describes the meeting and tour, the plant's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 22, 1979
J. B. Leverton to D. L. Engle and Others on OSHA Investigation at the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting that an OSHA industrial hygienist, Richard Miller, came to the Texas City plant on June 21, 1979 to sample employee exposure to ethylene oxide during a filter change at building 19…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 4, 1979
Harvey R. Schulz to J. H. Barrett and Others on the August 28, 1979 OSHA Visit at the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting that OSHA industrial hygienist Alan Trivette returned to the Texas City Plant on August 28, 1979 to sample for solvent vinyl resin dust, following an August 17 inspection prompted by an…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 14, 1973
Industrial Hygiene Department Preliminary Report on Monitoring Asbestos Insulation Removal from a Heat Exchanger, Bldg. 215, with Asbestos Dust Study Sheet (1973)
A one-page preliminary report dated 11/14/73 on monitoring the removal of insulation from a heat exchanger in Bldg. 215 at Plant 515. It states that the personnel sample was below one fiber per cc longer than five microns and cites the Threshold…