1,791 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 48 of 90
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 31, 1984
D. A. Gosselin to John Buzzard on Laundering Asbestos-Contaminated Clothing, with Attachments (1984)
Gosselin's internal memo to John Buzzard reviewed Buzzard's May 21, 1984 letter on sending asbestos-contaminated insulators' clothing to Vogue-Swift Cleaners in Marietta, Ohio. He cited OSHA Standard 1910.1001, recommended a letter to the cleaner's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 6, 1980
William F. Blythe, Jr. to C. W. Carman and L. R. Noble on Dust Sampling Under the Willson #52 Sandblasting Helmet (1980)
Internal memo responding to a request about the suitability of the Willson #52 abrasive blasting helmet. It reports seven dust samples taken under construction sandblasters' hoods in 1974-1975, notes that vest straps were not fastened, and states…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 1985
Hazardous Condition Report No. 17-85 on Asbestos Gaskets, from W. D. Boggan to M. Collins, with Reply from W. K. Meadows, Plant 512 (1985)
A Plant 512 Hazardous Condition Report (form 512-2804E) in which an employee reported, as a health hazard, that asbestos gaskets were not stored in plastic bags or similar containers. The immediate supervisor received it on 6/18/85 and the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 15, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Amended OSHA Asbestos Standard (1983)
Memorandum summarizing the points of OSHA's amended emergency temporary asbestos standard, effective November 4, 1983, most likely to affect plant operations. It lists the changes (the permissible exposure limit cut from 2 to 0.5 f/cc, training, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 27, 1987
P. S. Petrunich to C. H. Pelanne on the C&P Division Asbestos Phase Out (1987)
Internal Union Carbide letter-memo dated April 27, 1987, reporting that the C&P Division had begun an effort to discontinue purchase of asbestos packings and gaskets worldwide by the end of 1988, with GRAFOIL and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 11, 1988
K. B. Purinton to W. C. Nycz on Three Year Plant Insulation Upgrade Program, Sistersville (1988)
Memo from K. B. Purinton at the Sistersville, WV plant setting out criteria for insulation to be included in a three-year plant insulation upgrade program, including asbestos insulation in areas of high mechanical disturbance. It states that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 1986
Handwritten Note from Graham to Sal Rossi on the Plant Asbestos Program, with Jim D. Reply and Asbestos Repair Cost Estimates (1986)
A handwritten note from 'Graham' to Sal Rossi, stamped received March 11, 1986, says a maintenance person was leaving asbestos removal. It recalls that Bob Link had asked Ed Ballard to pull together the plant asbestos program and '838's, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 2, 1982
Customer Call Report on W. R. Grace Export Distributorship for SX14 and SX24, with T. P. Norris Letter to A. Rajala on Distributor Meeting and Asbestos Health Regulations (1982)
Page 1 is a Metals Division customer call report dated 2/2/82 on a meeting with W. R. Grace, an export distributor in New York, about Grace's exclusive contract to sell SX14 and SX24 in Mexico, Central America and South America. It records that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 18, 1986
T. L. Grittie to D. A. Boggs and Others on McCrone Analysis of Jaxsan Insulation Samples at Sistersville (1986)
Memo from T. L. Grittie transmitting McCrone Environmental Services' analysis of five Jaxsan insulation samples from the Sistersville plant. The memo reports 7-15% chrysotile asbestos, higher than the supplier had stated, and says the material…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 9, 1987
C. R. Rotthoff to W. J. Vincent Transmitting Comments on South Charleston Provisions for Asbestos Material Removal and Disposal (1987)
Internal memo from C. R. Rotthoff to W. J. Vincent commenting on the South Charleston plant's draft asbestos removal document, suggesting that exposure be kept below the PEL where possible and that steps required because the PEL will be exceeded be…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 13, 1986
Joseph F. Dodd to J. R. Dement and S. Rossi on the South Charleston Plant Asbestos Insulation Upgrade Project, with Draft Outline of Project (1986)
A May 13, 1986 cover memo from Joseph F. Dodd transmitting a draft Outline of Project for a plant-wide asbestos insulation upgrade at the South Charleston, WV plant. The memo and draft describe a $4.5 million, three-year project to remove asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 29, 1987
V. E. Stover and H. J. Kimble to H. E. Rucker on Asbestos Exposure Monitoring of Insulators at the Institute Plant (1987)
Internal memo reporting personal air sampling results for two insulators who loaded bagged asbestos for disposal and patched a line at Building 2009 at the Institute Plant. The memo states both samples were below the 0.1 f/cc OSHA action level,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 18, 1986
T. L. Grittie to D. A. Boggs and Others on McCrone Analysis of Jaxsan Insulation Samples for Asbestos (1986)
Memo from the Sistersville plant industrial hygienist transmitting McCrone Environmental Services' analysis of five Jaxsan samples. It reports 7-15% chrysotile, higher than the supplier indicated, says the IH group will monitor insulators during…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 20, 1982
R. W. Rebholz to W. C. Kuryla on Developing a New Label for Metals Division Asbestos Products (1982)
Internal memo from R. W. Rebholz to Dr. W. C. Kuryla asking his group to develop a new label for the Metals Division's asbestos products in place of the OSHA-mandated bag label, and to give an opinion on whether the British distinction in exposure…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 16, 1982
H. B. Rhodes to N. B. Haubold on the 1982 Industrial Hygiene Sampling Program for Plateau Mining Operations (1982)
Cover memo from H. B. Rhodes transmitting the revised 1982 Industrial Hygiene Sampling Program for Plateau Mining Operations, followed by the program text and tables. The program discusses 1981 respirable dust and silica results at the Plateau…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 1, 1987
Kirk E. Martin to R. E. Woodcock on Sampling Procedure for Insulation Containing Asbestos Mud (1987)
Memo from Kirk E. Martin asking that, when bulk samples of insulation are collected for qualitative analysis, the mud covering on joints and the underlying insulation be submitted as separate samples. It states that asbestos-containing mud had been…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 21, 1982
Kirk E. Martin to M. E. Tapp on Vinyl Acetate Monitoring During PVA Disposal at Texas City (1982)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting that on June 16, 1982 a Roy Hunter employee was monitored for vinyl acetate exposure while handling polyvinyl acetate residue. No vinyl acetate was detected over the 7-hour, 25-minute…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 29, 1986
R. H. Smith to Dennis Hanshew, WV Air Pollution Control Commission, Giving Notice of Intent to Renovate Equipment and Piping with Friable Asbestos Insulation (1986)
Letter from R. H. Smith of Union Carbide to a West Virginia Air Pollution Control Commission engineer, following a May 28 telephone conversation, giving notice of a renovation job by the Technical Center Construction Department involving…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 16, 1987
M. J. Shoger to OSHA Area Director P. D. Jones on Employee Complaint #3381 at the South Charleston Plant, Building 303 (1987)
Letter responding to an OSHA letter of March 13, 1987 about an employee complaint concerning Building 303 at the South Charleston plant. It reports airborne asbestos monitoring before and after repairs to damaged asbestos pipe insulation, exposures…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 11, 1986
G. B. Elder Record of Telephone Conversation with Dow Chemical's Eugene L. Liening on Asbestos Insulation, Gaskets and Packing Practices (1986)
A one-page memorandum recording a telephone conversation between G. B. Elder and Eugene L. Liening of Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan, on present practices and future trends in industry. It lists four points on Dow's use and removal of…