95 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 2 of 5
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 2, 1952
C. J. O'Neill to Union Oil Company of California on Handling Hyflo Super-Cel (1952)
…Neill's October bulletin to salesmen. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Correspondence to Union Oil Company of California from C.J…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 30, 1961
C. L. Sheckler to All Industrial Relations Managers on Union Requests for Dust Count Records (1961)
…M complied with state rules and had adopted the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists' Threshold Limit Values as its standard, and to report any request from a union, committee or individual to headquarters at once…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 25, 1981
K. G. Gulley Memo on Workers' Compensation Occupational Disease Files in Commercial Union v. Johns-Manville (1981)
…company knew describes this document as follows: In a memorandum to Robert S. Venning, Esq. of Heller Erman, White & McAuliffe re Commercial Union v. Johns-Manville, dated 12/25/81, regarding Workers' Compensation Files, K.G…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · November 23, 1994
Adcock v. Brakegate, Ltd. (1994)
…in furtherance, which may be intentional or negligent and may be committed by any conspirator. Wrongful Death and Survival; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Company) Bloomington plant; Unarco Industries asbestos plant, Bloomington…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 11, 1980
M. A. Tappin to W. B. Reitze on Refusing Unions Retirees' Medical Records (1980)
…The question came up again at Long Beach in 1982 (Falter to the International Chemical Workers Union). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as…
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Person · People and organizations
Clifford L. Sheckler
…New Jersey plant in 1957–1959, later at General Headquarters as manager of the industrial health program (1962). Reported dust survey results and wrote memos on respirators, union requests for dust counts and occupational disease claims.
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Company document · WARD Documents · 1970
Johns-Manville Signs to Employees on Respirators and Dust Collection (c. 1970)
…speak to men who fabricated and installed insulation "in a fab shop or on the jobsite," and the mention of union and manufacturer research points to the insulation industry's health research of the late 1960s…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1, 1977
Dr. William R. Paul's Memo on the Zelienople Plant and Abnormal X-Rays Workers Were Not Told About (1977)
…role of the radiologist" by saying the films were of poor quality. The union pressed him on why the doctor had not retaken them, and the men said the plant doctor "doesn't tell them anything…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 4, 1972
Fred L. Pundsack to Dr. Irving J. Selikoff on Estimating Past Dust Levels at the Manville Plant (1972)
What it shows The estimates were for Selikoff's study of the Manville plant, which the local union had asked him to make (Selikoff's request to J. B. Jobe, Jobe's agreement). Blind copies went…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 14, 1953
H. M. Jackson to O. B. Westmont on the Lompoc Housekeeping Procedures Manual (1953)
…follows: Housekeeping procedures manual has been prepared by the Lompoc plant. Jackson okays providing the Union and USPHS with copies of it on 9/14/53. Jackson suggests that notations in the manual indicating that various…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 25, 1964
J. B. Jobe to D. L. Hinmon on Labeling Asbestos Products to Lessen Claims (1964)
…25/64 states: "In view of the importance being given to the subject by the Asbestos Workers Union it is our belief that we should take advantage of any items which could lessen our exposure to…
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Company document · WARD Documents · March 11, 1969
H. M. Jackson to All Plant, Mill and Mine Managers on Explaining the Membrane Filter Technique to Unions (1969)
…that J-M would measure asbestos dust by counting fibers on a membrane filter in the worker's breathing zone. Jackson's addition was that unions and employees should be told about the new method too.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 14, 1956
B. F. Stanton to S. Lower on Dust at the No. 4 Roofing Machine in the Manville Plant (1956)
…Stanton states that "[t]he several union complaints and the suggestion by certain operators that they should walk off the job 'rather than inhale that dust' are not without justification." Stanton urges correction of the problem…
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Company document · WARD Documents · June 17, 1947
Johns-Manville Board of Directors Minutes on Capital Spending and Insurance Company Loans (1947)
The 13-page minutes of the Johns-Manville Corporation board meeting of June 17, 1947, chaired by Lewis H. Brown and kept by Vandiver Brown as secretary. With projects running $4,322,000 over estimate, the…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 10, 1960
C. L. Sheckler and Others on a Mandatory Respirator Program at the Manville Plant (1960)
…though there is a recognized health hazard and we may be generating additional O.D. [occupational disease] cases," because of "our vulnerable position from the Union and the State standpoint" and the added wage cost. W…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 19, 1979
Dennis H. Markusson to R. B. Von Wald on Amending Waukegan's OSHA Logs (1979)
…union of the identity of individuals with occupationally related illnesses. On page 7, Markusson suggests that Waukegan amend Manville's logs entering those employees who request that his identity not be made known to the union…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 16, 1965
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to N. W. Hendry, "Asbestos versus Cancer" (1965)
…s main problem with the report is that the men examined, who were called "asbestos workers," were men who belonged to the asbestos workers union, a group of men who are exposed to asbestos fiber along…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 25, 1964
G. A. Wall to J. G. Moore and Others on Dryer Standards at Manville (1964)
…Grote and R. Wyllie on a union grievance over the production standards for pulling dryer cars and unloading pipe covering at the Manville plant. Wall listed the changes since the standards were set in 1946 and…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 14, 1978
H. B. Moreno to Dr. Paul Kotin on a Smoking Ban at J-M's Belgian Asbestos-Cement Plants (1978)
…M had discussed a "No Smoking" ban at its asbestos-cement plants at Mol and Ghent; managers favored it but said the best way to a complete ban was to enlist the unions. Up to then…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 5, 1974
J. A. McKinney to W. L. VanDerbeek on Informing Foreign Customers About Asbestos (1974)
…Health." McKinney reports that the booklet "What Every Employee Should Know About Asbestos," sent to 21 J-M plants the previous November, had drawn no adverse union or employee reaction, and recommends sending it to customers…