254 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 6 of 13
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 3, 1974
H. B. Rhodes to R. F. X. Fusaro on the State of Minnesota Asbestos Act, with Fusaro's 1973 Reply and an Annotated Outline of the Act (1974)
A May 3, 1974 internal letter from H. B. Rhodes to the Law Department's R. F. X. Fusaro asked whether using an asbestos-containing material in a Minnesota building violates the state Asbestos Act if dust is released only years later, at demolition.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 2, 1978
H. B. Rhodes to Frank Twitty on TOSCA Registration of Calidria Asbestos Products (1978)
Internal memo from Harrison B. Rhodes to Frank Twitty, with copies to four others, transmitting registration information on the Calidria asbestos operation for the Toxic Substances Control Act (TOSCA) report. The memo says unmodified asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 29, 1980
P. R. Sherman Design Memorandum on Asbestos Bagging Improvement at King City (1980)
Design memorandum (Design Memo No. 1, Revision No. 0, File No. 11217) by P. R. Sherman on improving the bagging of asbestos shipments at King City, CA. It describes efforts to develop a dust-free bag with a better bag wrap and a bag closure system…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 31, 1977
H. B. Rhodes to W. C. Thurber Transmitting Draft SPE Paper on Consumer Safety in Asbestos-Containing Plastics (1977)
…fiber concentrations in tape-joint compound use, including Rohl data, Union Carbide commercial survey, and OSHA compliance data Table V and further data tables on fiber concentrations during wet-out, cleanup and consumer installations (some OCR…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 3, 1976
J. L. Myers to W. C. Thurber on Calidria Asbestos Bag Labelling (1976)
Internal Union Carbide memo responding to a request from W. C. Thurber about bag labelling. It states that bag warnings began in June 1968 with the text 'Breathing dust may be harmful' and that in June…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 23, 1972
H. B. Rhodes to R. E. Byrne, Jr. and Others Transmitting Product Information Questionnaire for Chrysotile Asbestos (1972)
…transmitting a Product Information Questionnaire prepared for a specific customer and said to be cleared by legal and medical staff in New York. The attached questionnaire gives Union Carbide's answers on chrysotile asbestos (Imcobest, Visbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 29, 1982
H. B. Rhodes to D. L. Haywood on Reporting Health and Safety Studies to EPA under TSCA Section 8(d), with Attached Mellon Institute Covers and King City Sputum Cytology Papers (1982)
Internal Metals Division memo from H. B. Rhodes listing the items the division had identified as potentially reportable under TSCA Section 8(d): two Mellon Institute asbestos reports, King City mill sputum cytology summaries, and a deposition by Dr.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 3, 1976
J. L. Myers to W. C. Thurber on Calidria Asbestos Bag Labelling (1976)
Internal correspondence from the Calidria Asbestos marketing department responding to a request from W. C. Thurber about bag labelling. It states that bag warnings began in June 1968 and that the wording was changed in June 1972 to comply with the…
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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 7, 1977
G. L. Dickson to Dr. H. B. Rhodes on Koppers Company's Policy Against Using Asbestos in Polyester Resins (1977)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting that Fred Tropp of Koppers Company told Ed Kleber at the Houston Paint Show that Koppers' policy has been not to use asbestos, so there have been no recent sales of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 16, 1974
D. D. Berry to J. L. Myers on Coupling Agents for CALIDRIA Asbestos in Rubber, with Attached M. W. Ranney Memo on Silane-Treated Asbestos (1974)
Internal letter from D. D. Berry (Organic Elastomers) to J. L. Myers reporting early results from using phenolic and silane coupling agents to bond CALIDRIA asbestos to rubber (EPDM and natural rubber). It recommends continuing the work and setting…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 30, 1976
H. B. Rhodes to J. L. Myers on Status of the Denver Drywall Asbestos Problem (1976)
Memo reporting on a Colorado OSHA inspection of Denver Drywall, a contractor at the Johns-Manville headquarters job in Denver that used a joint compound containing about 1% SG-210 asbestos. It describes the citations, UCC's dust sampling, the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 10, 1973
T. P. Norris Report of Call on General Motors Technical Center Industrial Hygiene Staff Regarding the Asbestos Ban (1973)
A Union Carbide report of call on General Motors' Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, covering a meeting with three industrial hygiene staff members to clarify the alleged asbestos ban. It records GM's policy of advising…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 8, 1968
R. G. Woolery to R. E. Byrne and Others on the Annual ASTM D-30 Sub III Meeting in San Francisco, with Draft Asbestos Definitions (1968)
Internal correspondence reporting on the June 24-28, 1968 ASTM D-30 meeting in San Francisco, including the Sub III (Asbestos and Other Natural Occurring Fibers) committee's work on test methods and definitions. Attached are a sixth draft of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 29, 1975
J. L. Myers to Thomas F. Anderson (Dow Chemical) on OSHA Medical Examination Requirements and Dow's Derakane Asbestos Letter (1975)
Letter from Union Carbide's Calidria marketing manager to Dow Chemical summarizing meetings with OSHA about medical examination requirements for workers exposed to asbestos-containing polyester resin dust. It also objects to a Dow Derakane letter…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 14, 1973
H. B. Rhodes to Sales and Management Staff on Revision of Emergency Temporary Standard on Certain Carcinogens and Customer Inquiries on Asbestos (1973)
Internal memo reporting that customers had asked whether asbestos is a carcinogen, a question tied to an OSHA regulation defining carcinogen by a list of fourteen organic compounds that does not include asbestos. It told recipients they could say…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 2, 1976
J. E. Skvarla to R. G. Woolery on a Wetted Dust-Free Supervisbestos Product and Improved Product Quality (1976)
Internal memo from J. E. Skvarla to R. G. Woolery responding to W. C. Thurber's letters on improving Supervisbestos. It proposes making a dust-free wetted product by blending S V filter cake with dry pellets in the Lancaster mixer, citing Niagara…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1973
J. L. Myers and E. J. Kleber Report of Call on Georgia-Pacific, Akron, NY, on OSHA Citation and Dust Control (1973)
…Pacific's Akron, NY plant after the plant's OSHA asbestos citation. It records the $3000 fine, drawings of Union Carbide's bagging enclosure left with Georgia-Pacific, product samples, dust samples taken, and an observation…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 21, 1981
F. L. Smith to B. L. Ingalls Transmitting Airborne Asbestos Counts Report for Building 169, Niagara Falls (1981)
Internal Union Carbide memo from F. L. Smith to B. L. Ingalls enclosing a report on airborne asbestos counts from samples taken June 25, 1981 in Building #169 at Niagara Falls, where a pilot plant had…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 26, 1977
E. J. Kleber to R. Hillerman (Allied Materials) on RG-244 and RG-110 Calidria, with Enclosed Roofing Compound Report (1977)
A two-page sales letter from Edward J. Kleber to R. Hillerman at Allied Materials about Calidria RG-244 as a pyrogenic silica substitute in vinyl plastisol, with packaging and delivered-price details and a note on RG-110 against Canadian asbestos.…