18 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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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 · 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…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 30, 1974
E. C. Madlangbayan to Paul W. McDaniel on Personal Air Samples at the King City Plant, December (1974)
Internal memo from the King City quality control supervisor to the Medical Department in New York reporting personal air sampling results for six plant workers in December 1974. The cover page gives time-weighted averages by job classification.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 19, 1979
W. B. DeAtley to O. J. Malacarne Transmitting 1979 Sputum Cytology Results for King City Employees (1979)
Internal letter from W. B. DeAtley at King City to O. J. Malacarne enclosing the 1979 sputum cytology results for employees. It reports results better than those predicted from Dr. Saccomanno's data, but notes a marked increase in mild atypical…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 19, 1973
G. L. Dickson to J. L. Myers on Evaluation of the King City RG-244 Production Facility, with Attached Report (1973)
Internal memo from G. L. Dickson to J. L. Myers, with an attached report, summarizing a three-week visit to the King City plant in August 1973. It concluded that only a 5-10% increase in RG-244 production was possible from present facilities and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 4, 1974
Safety Department (B. A. Piersall) to F. H. Larrison on the Management Safety Audit of the King City Plant, October 16-17, 1974 (1974)
Internal correspondence reporting the results of a management safety audit of the King City plant on October 16-17, 1974, reviewed item by item against the 1973 audit recommendations. It covers safety programs, dust control, noise, and housekeeping,…
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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 · September 27, 1974
E. A. Piersall to King City Plant Managers on the October 1974 King City Safety Audit Schedule (1974)
Internal correspondence from the Safety department in Grand Junction, Colorado, setting out the schedule for a safety audit at the King City plant on October 16-17, 1974. It describes review of the prior year's recommendations, a plant inspection,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 10, 1979
W. G. Kahler II to T. R. Alexander and Others on DOT Docket HM-160, Transportation of Asbestos, with Commenter Lists and DOT Regulatory Evaluation (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo transmitting a copy of DOT's regulatory evaluation for Docket HM-160 (transportation of asbestos) and two lists of parties that commented on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and on the Final…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 29, 1974
Safety Department to F. H. Larrison on the Management Safety Audit of King City (1974)
Internal correspondence from the Mining and Metals Division Safety department to the King City manager reporting the audit team's consensus comments on the King City operation's December 10, 1973 management safety audit. It lists numbered…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 11, 1974
E. C. Madlangbayan to F. H. Larrison, Jr. on Personal Dust Sample of Shipping Crew Worker Handloading Super Visbestos (1974)
Internal correspondence reporting a personal air sample taken December 9, 1974 on a shipping crew member handloading Super Visbestos into a railroad car. It lists four sampling periods with work performed and average +5 micron fiber counts per mL…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 5, 1979
W. B. DeAtley to O. J. Malacarne on Double Wrapping and Palletizing Calidria Products to Meet DOT Regulations (1979)
Internal correspondence from the King City office to O. J. Malacarne stating that double wrapping and palletizing of material shipped to warehouses and distributors had begun to meet new DOT regulations effective August 20, 1979. It lists the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 3, 1974
Mining and Metals Division King City Air Sample Results for November 1974, to Paul McDaniels, Medical Department (1974)
Internal correspondence from the King City Mining and Metals Division to the Medical Department in New York reporting November 1974 personal and area air sample results. Personal samples were reported for a palletizer-bagger operator, an RG-244…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 24, 1975
E. A. Piersall to R. E. Hayes, R. J. Kronkhyte, F. H. Larrison and W. C. Thurber, Transmitting Personal Interview Notes from the King City Safety Audit (1975)
A cover memo from E. A. Piersall transmits his notes on personal interviews with King City plant employees, made during the October 15-16, 1975 safety audit, to support the forthcoming audit report. The attached notes summarize interviews with five…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 7, 1975
E. Madlangbayan to Paul W. McDaniel on Personal Air Sample Results for June 1975, King City Mill (1975)
Internal memo from the King City quality control supervisor to the Medical Department in New York, summarizing personal air samples taken from six mill workers in June 1975. It lists job classification, sampling time and a time-weighted average for…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 28, 1972
Glen W. Sutton (Bureau of Mines) to F. H. Larrison Transmitting the Asbestos Dust Health Survey Report on the Calidria Plant, with Bureau of Mines Report and Larrison Letter to California Division of Industrial Safety (1972)
…28, 1972 cover letter from the Bureau of Mines transmits a report on its October 4-6, 1971 asbestos dust health survey of Union Carbide's Calidria plant at King City. The report describes plant conditions…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 14, 1973
Safety Memo from "Bob" on Lock-Out, Hazardous Work Permits and Respirators in the Bagging Area (1973)
A one-page "Safety Memo" dated 5-14-73 reminded supervisors to check that workers lock out equipment such as the bag flattener-elevator and use hazardous work permits. It also said respirators must be worn by everyone in the bagging area, including…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 1973
L. A. Schutz, Walter Bank and George Weems, Airborne Asbestos Fiber Concentrations in Asbestos Mines and Mills in the United States (1973)
Bureau of Mines Technical Progress Report 72 on a survey of airborne asbestos fiber concentrations in the active U.S. asbestos mines and mills, including sites at King City and Coalinga, California. It reports average exposures by job classification…