106 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 6
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 12, 1975
R. J. Klotzbach to W. C. Thurber Transmitting Answers to Supplemental Interrogatories 5 and 8 in Roderman et al. v. Union Carbide (1975)
Cover memo from Klotzbach to Thurber transmitting answers to questions 5 and 8 in Roderman v. Union Carbide Answer to Question 5: Technology Department history, functions, quality assurance and safety responsibilities Answer to Question 8: asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 12, 1975
R. J. Klotzbach to W. C. Thurber Forwarding Answers to Supplemental Interrogatory Questions 5 and 8, Roderman et al. v. Union Carbide (1975)
…questions 5 and 8 prepared as background for supplemental interrogatories in Roderman et al. v. Union Carbide Corporation et al. The cover memo gives the timeline of asbestos claims, process and product development and first shipments…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 1974
Cal-OSHA Citation to Union Carbide's King City Asbestos Mill and R. O. Marsten's Memo on the Inspection (1974)
California Division of Industrial Safety citation (12/9/74) to the Union Carbide asbestos mill, with a handwritten routing note at top Page with a rotated handwritten note and a 'RECEIVED' stamp; otherwise blank R. O…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 9, 1971
L. P. Twichell to J. F. Emerson and F. H. Larrison, Jr. on RG-244 Expansion (1971)
Memorandum confirming recent conversations about expanding RG-244 operations. It called for moving from three shifts, five days to three shifts, seven days, proceeding with a Phase I facility expansion from 700 tpy to 1,000 tpy, and plant tests on a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 15, 1971
P. W. McDaniel and J. L. Myers Report of Call on EPA Office of Air Programs Regarding Calidria Pellets and Asbestos Emission Standards (1971)
Report of a June 1971 meeting between Union Carbide staff and EPA Office of Air Programs personnel (Source Control Branch) to discuss how Calidria pellets and the production system reduce asbestos dust. It records EPA's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 9, 1976
John L. Myers to W. C. Thurber on Packaging and Transportation Problems with Asbestos Dust (1976)
Internal memo from John L. Myers of the Calidria Asbestos department to W. C. Thurber, with copies to several others, about customer complaints on dusty asbestos packaging and shipping. Myers recommended shrink-wrapping all bagged products, bag…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 12, 1973
W. C. Thurber to V. D. Holt on Implementation of Tuck-In Sleeve Packaging for Asbestos Bags (1973)
Internal memo from W. C. Thurber to V. D. Holt saying the present asbestos bags let small quantities of material dribble from the fill hole, creating dust and clean-up problems in customers' plants. It reports preliminary work on tuck-in sleeves and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 26, 1973
D. E. Furlani Trip Report on Inspection of Shrink-Wrapped Asbestos Pallets Shipped to Georgia-Pacific, Akron, New York (1973)
Report No. 73-T-7 on a January 18, 1973 trip to the Georgia-Pacific plant in Akron, New York, to inspect a rail shipment of SG-210 asbestos on pallets, two of which were shrink-wrapped at King City. It describes the condition of each pallet,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 28, 1974
W. C. Thurber to E. A. Piersall: Miscellaneous Notes on King City Management Safety Audit (1974)
Memo dated October 28, 1974 with notes on a management safety audit of the King City plant. It covers general action items, comments from interviews with plant employees (mostly about slippery floors and safety meetings), and a dust sampling…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 7, 1973
Internal Correspondence to F. H. Larrison on Airborne Fiber Measurements at the King City Mill and Mine, July 23-24, 1973 (1973)
Internal Union Carbide letter-memo to F. H. Larrison reporting airborne fiber counts (fibers 5 microns and longer per ml of air) from personal and general-area samples at the King City mill and mine on…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 27, 1974
Table of U.S. Asbestos Producers by Mine, Fiber Type and Estimated Annual Production (1974)
…fiber type, grade groups and remarks. It lists Union Carbide's Joe No. 5 Mine in San Benito Co., California at 20,000 tons of chrysotile and cites a 1973 Mineral Resources Branch publication (Ottawa) as…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 23, 1974
W. C. Thurber to Distribution on Current Status of Plans for Expanding the King City Asbestos Plant, with Attached Earlier Memos (1974)
A December 23, 1974 memo updating a June 19, 1974 memo on plans to expand the King City asbestos plant to 60,000 T/yr. It reports cost estimates, two financial cases, land acquisition efforts for tailings disposal, and a decision to defer…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 7, 1975
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison and J. L. Myers on Packaging SG-103 for Kentile in 100 lb. Polyethylene Bags (1975)
Short memo in which W. C. Thurber stated his understanding that SG-103 for Kentile was planned to be packed in 50 lb. Valeron cross-layered plastic bags and called that packaging very costly. He asked whether, if the pellet cooler were working, a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 29, 1974
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison and Others on Housekeeping Test in the King City Bagging Area to Meet OSHA Fiber Limit (1974)
Memo from W. C. Thurber stating that OSHA regulations require the dust level at the King City operation to be below two fibers per cc after July 1, 1976, and that recent dust counts showed the main circuit bagging area as the principal problem. He…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 14, 1974
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison and Others Confirming RG-244 Packaging Changes (1974)
Memo from W. C. Thurber confirming discussions of January 11, 1974 on packaging of RG-244. It says cardboard shrouds will be dropped once inventory is used up and that 3-ply bags will give way to slightly larger two-ply bags. It also covers gluing…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 4, 1974
W. C. Thurber to V. D. Holt, R. J. Klotzbach, F. H. Larrison and J. L. Myers on Shrink Wrapping Bags to Control Fill-Valve Leakage (1974)
Memo from W. C. Thurber, with a copy line for O. J. Malocarne of Niagara Falls, New York, to four recipients. It says leakage from the fill valve is a major problem in packaging asbestos. It asks for an individual bag shrink film oven and a bag…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 24, 1973
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison, Jr. on Deferring Coverall Service for King City Employees (1973)
Letter from W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison, Jr., with J. F. Emerson and J. W. Rawlings also listed, about a coverall service for all employees at an annual cost of $5,000 that was discussed during his visit the previous week. Thurber suggested…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 5, 1973
P. W. McDaniel to F. H. Larrison, Jr. on Air Samples Taken at the King City South Fence Line (1973)
Internal letter marked CONFIDENTIAL in which the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer reported air samples he collected on October 24, 1973 at the south fence line of the King City site. He gave fiber counts of 0.16 and 0.12 fibers/ml (5…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 13, 1974
J. L. Myers to F. H. Larrison on Packaging Concepts, Transmitting W. C. Thurber's Memo on King City Main Circuit Packaging (1974)
A March 13, 1974 internal note from John L. Myers to F. H. Larrison commenting on item 3(b) of W. C. Thurber's February 21, 1974 memo on packaging concepts for the King City main circuit. Myers said the wooden pallet top should be solid to retain…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 27, 1973
R. E. Byrne, Jr. Informal Report on TiO2 Contamination of RG-244 During the T-135 Plant Run (1973)
Informal report describing TiO2 contamination found in RG-244 asbestos produced during the August 15-22, 1973 T-135 plant run at King City. It reports TiO2 levels up to almost 3%, no correlation between TiO2 content and thickening efficiency, sales…