95 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 5
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Person · People and organizations
W. S. Young
Union Carbide Corporation Advertising Manager, Residential Products Division at Johns-Manville
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Person · People and organizations
Calvin Thompson
Research and Development Department Mining and Metals Division Union Carbide Corporation Manager Physical Distribution - Plan., Material Control at Johns-Manville
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · August 20, 2015
Oddo v. Asbestos Corporation Ltd. (2015)
…affirmed Ford's liability, reallocated fault to Ford 65%, Union Carbide 25% and Higgins 10%, and amended the survival damages award against Ford, so the plaintiffs lost against Southern Talc but kept their judgment against Ford…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · May 31, 2006
Thomas v. AP Green Industries, Inc. (2006)
The surviving spouse and five adult children of Namon Joshua, Jr., a carpenter who died of lung cancer in 2001, sued several premises owners. He also had asbestos-related pleural plaques. He worked for contractors at the Waterford power plants in…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 22, 2024 · in the opinion
Williams v. JM Manufacturing Company, Inc. (2024)
…was exposed to asbestos from asbestos-cement pipe supplied by J-MM. Relying on Izell v. Union Carbide Corp. (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th 962 (Izell), J-MM contends that Cornelius only raised a "mere possibility…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 3, 1969
Matthew M. Swetonic (Johns-Manville) to J. A. Riddle on Sending Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program Reports (1969)
…Riddle, Union Carbide, July 3, 1969, enclosing IIHRP reports Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports, Vol. 1 No. 1 (Spring 1969), from the Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program at Mount Sinai: program funding, advisory council, respirator, PHS cooperation…
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Person · People and organizations
C. E. Fry
Union Carbide employee in the Silicones & Urethane Intermediates Division, 1983–1984. Received J. S. Cornell's 1983 memos on asbestos-related medical issues and exposure limits, and copies of memos on OSHA's asbestos standard and…
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Person · People and organizations
R. J. Sexton
Plant medical director at Union Carbide's Institute plant near Charleston, West Virginia, 1962–1981; forwarded industrial hygiene dust surveys of Johns-Manville Thermobestos and other insulation blocks, wrote that Thermobestos dust was a hazard to…
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Person · People and organizations
Jim Collins
Vice president of Union Carbide's Metals Division (1977–1980); wrote to CPSC commissioners opposing a proposed ban on asbestos joint compounds, received Calidria sales, export, lobbying and presentation memos, and sent a 1980 Grace distributor…
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Person · People and organizations
Edmund M. Fenner
…of environmental services (1978); chaired the Asbestos Information Association/North America's Standards and Technical Committee in 1974. Reported on company dust sampling and fiber limits, proposed product warning-label rules, and corresponded with Union Carbide.
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Company document · WARD Documents · August 10, 1982
Fran Swaney to Pam Johnson on J-M Customer Numbers for Texas Contractors and Plants, with Brown & Root Sales Printouts (1982)
…Zachry and others), Brown & Root of Houston, and the Union Carbide plant at Seadrift, the Celanese plant at Bishop and the Du Pont plant at Victoria. Handwritten answers give numbers for five companies and "None" for…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 15, 1975
W. B. Reitze and J. T. Vanderveen on Replacing Thermobestos with Thermo-12 in Brazil (1975)
…Thermobestos was J-M's asbestos calcium silicate pipe and block insulation; its dustiness was documented in the 1960s (Union Carbide's 1962 dust surveys). In 1977 Reitze found Thermobestos still being made and installed in…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · 1962
Johns-Manville File on William S. McKinney's Ohio Workmen's Compensation Claim (1962)
…of Ohio Bureau of Workmen's Compensation in 1962. McKinney alleged that he contracted asbestosis in both lungs while employed by J-M in removing insulation materials at Union Carbide's Bakelite Company in Marietta, Ohio…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 10, 2013 · in the opinion
Webb v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2013)
…The raw asbestos supplied by Special Electric to Johns-Manville constitutes a "product" under the negligence and strict liability provisions of California law. (Stewart v. Union Carbide Corp. (2010) 190 Cal.App.4th 23, 29 (Stewart)…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 15, 1957
Union Complaints and J-M Correspondence on Dust in the Manville Textile "A" Building (1957)
…in "A" Building. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Edward Macko (President of a local Manville labor union) writes to M.F…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 11, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Union Asbestos & Rubber Enclosing Gardner's First Progress Report (1937)
What it shows Union Asbestos & Rubber was one of the companies that signed the November 1936 agreement to pay for Gardner's work at the Saranac Laboratory, under which the results belonged to the sponsors and…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 22, 1968
W. L. Ruff's Notes of a Manville Union-Management Meeting on Dust, Noise and Examination Results (1968)
What it shows The union's complaint, recorded in the company's own notes, concerns a practice that runs through J-M's earlier papers: not telling workers what their examinations showed (see Dr. Kenneth Smith…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 14, 1971
C. L. Hite to B. Mulder on Waukegan's Red Slip Cases and the Union (1971)
What it shows Hite reports that union official Ben Foust expected a proposal that any worker moved to a lower-paying job because of a lung problem caused by asbestos or silica at work should keep…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 17, 1936
Vandiver Brown to Lewis Silverman of Union Asbestos & Rubber on the Air Hygiene Foundation (1936)
…Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: In a letter to L.J. Silverman (Union Asbestos and Rubber Company) dated 12/17/36, V…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 4, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on Union Asbestos's Limit and Dr. Shull's Paper (1937)
…at Saranac Laboratory (the memorandum). Smaller firms were willing to join only for a small share: Union Asbestos & Rubber settled on $250 a year (Silverman's letter of January 6). The same letters passed along Gardner…