34 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 6, 1987
T. L. Grittie's Industrial Hygiene Results on Asbestos Air Monitoring at Union Carbide Plant Operations (1987)
Eight one-page "Industrial Hygiene Results" reports dated April 6-7, 1987. Each reports airborne asbestos fiber sampling taken in January and February 1987 during plant tasks, including K-40 operator duties, pipe, reactor and heater de-insulation,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 30, 1987
Union Carbide Industrial Hygiene Asbestos Monitoring Reports for Silanes, Polymers and Monomers Areas, Prepared by C. R. McMillan and T. L. Grittie (1987)
Twelve pages of industrial hygiene monitoring and results reports dated June and July 1987, covering airborne asbestos sampling taken February to April 1987 around insulation removal, glove bag use and asbestos insulation in Silanes, Polymers and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 5, 1986
T. E. Hanning to S. W. Clark and Others on Asbestos Update: Union Support for Proposed EPA Ban (1986)
…marked 'For Your Information', reporting that labor unions were endorsing a proposed EPA asbestos ban and contending that OSHA's 0.2 fiber/cc limit gave insufficient worker protection. It also summarizes the proposed EPA rule…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 21, 1984
G. D. Twait to Wayne Williams on November 1983 Revisions to SH-256, Removal and Handling of Asbestos-Containing Insulation Material (1984)
A handwritten 1984 note from G. D. Twait to Wayne Williams confirming that the asbestos permissible exposure limit in the November 1983 revision of SH-256 would stay at 0.5 fibers/cc, with attached material. The attachments are the OSHA emergency…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 7, 1987
T. L. Grittie, Industrial Hygiene Results on Asbestos Monitoring During Deinsulation of R-2 Reactor, Silanes (1987)
Industrial hygiene results dated April 7, 1987 for breathing-zone asbestos samples taken February 10, 1987 on insulators removing insulation from reactor R-2 in the Reactor Area of Silanes inside a negative pressure enclosure. The two samples…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 2, 1987
L. S. Magelssen and H. W. Wegert to J. F. Dodd et al. on Status of Contingency Items for Asbestos Insulation Removal Upgrade, South Charleston (1987)
Two-page memorandum reporting that two contingency items attached to the May 19, 1987 health, safety and environmental endorsement of the South Charleston Asbestos Insulation Removal Upgrade-Phase I had been resolved. It discusses review of the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 28, 1985
W. C. Young to Plant Managers Department on Asbestos Exposure Effects and Potential of Non-Insulator Crafts, with Plant 514 Asbestos Dust Measurement Printouts (1985)
Internal memo of June 28, 1985 from the South Charleston Plant to the Managers Department stating that plant asbestos dust measurements were below OSHA limits, but the writer questioned whether any level of inhalation exposure is safe without…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 30, 1986
H. W. Wegert and G. M. Whipple to J. R. Dement et al. on Health, Safety, and Environmental Review of the South Charleston Insulation Upgrade Project (1986)
Memorandum reporting a health, safety and environmental review of a three-year project to upgrade asbestos insulation at the South Charleston Plant. It recommended endorsement contingent on revising Maintenance Procedure XVIII to comply with the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 11, 1988
T. E. Hanning to Distribution on Need for Personal Protection When Cutting or Removing Asbestos-Containing Gaskets or Packing, with Attachments (1988)
A March 1988 "Business Confidential" memo from T. E. Hanning for the Asbestos Phaseout Task Group asked plant locations about monitoring data, written procedures, wetting and glove-bag use, and the need for personal protection when cutting or…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 7, 1986
D. A. Boggs to S. L. Curtis on Serious Asbestos Health Hazard in the Monomers North Rectification Area, Sistersville Plant (1986)
Memo from the Sistersville Plant industrial hygienist reporting exposed, deteriorating asbestos insulation on distillation columns in the Monomers North Rectification Area and chunks of asbestos material found on the ground up to about 60 yards…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 7, 1986
D. A. Boggs to S. L. Curtis on Serious Asbestos Health Hazard in the Monomers North Rectification Area, Sistersville Plant (1986)
Memorandum reporting a visual inspection of distillation column towers in the Monomers Rectification Area at the Sistersville Plant, which found exposed, deteriorating asbestos insulation and fallen asbestos chunks, confirmed as asbestos by…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 30, 1987
Industrial Hygiene Results: Asbestos Exposure of UCC Design and Construction Insulators Using a Glove Bag, Polymers I Tank Farm (1987)
Industrial hygiene report dated June 30, 1987, on personal air samples taken February 13, 1987 from two UCC Design and Construction insulators removing asbestos with a glove bag at the Polymers I tank farm. One sample (0.22 f/cc) exceeded the 0.2…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 29, 1986
W. V. Summers to D. Liebeskind on the Sistersville Asbestos Insulation Upgrade Project (1986)
Memo dated October 29, 1986 from W. V. Summers at the Sistersville, WV plant to D. Liebeskind, with copies to six others, giving comments on the plant's asbestos insulation upgrade project. It describes damaged installed asbestos insulation as the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 7, 1986
J. F. Dodd to D. A. Gosselin and Others Transmitting the South Charleston Plant Insulation Asbestos Upgrade Outline of Project (1986)
Cover memo dated November 7, 1986 transmitting for review an Outline of Project for a plantwide asbestos insulation upgrade at the South Charleston, WV plant, described as a high-priority Safety/Health Program. The attached outline describes the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 5, 1986
D. G. Beddow to L. W. Phair on Asbestos Insulation Investigation, with D. A. Boggs to S. L. Curtis on Serious Asbestos Health Hazard at the Sistersville Plant (1986)
Two Union Carbide Sistersville, WV memos from November 1986 about deteriorating asbestos insulation on six distillation columns in the methyls/monomers area. The Nov. 5 memo from D. G. Beddow describes the condition, lists repair options…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 21, 1984
J. R. Buzzard to D. A. Gosselin on Cleaning of Insulators Clothing at Vogue-Swift Cleaners, with OSHA Asbestos Rule Excerpt and Removal Checklist (1984)
An internal Union Carbide letter dated May 21, 1984, in which the Purchasing Agent outlined how clothing worn by insulators was sent for cleaning at Vogue-Swift Cleaners in Marietta, Ohio, and asked whether OSHA requirements…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 6, 1987
T. L. Grittie Industrial Hygiene Results on Glove Bag Asbestos Insulation Removal and Transite Roof Removal (1987)
Two Industrial Hygiene Results reports dated April 6, 1987. The first reports airborne fiber sampling of insulators removing asbestos insulation by the glove bag technique at the SSP Unit, K-36, and recommends closer scrutiny of the method. The…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 20, 1987
Industrial Hygiene Monitoring Report on Asbestos Exposure Concern in the Monomers Control Room, by C. R. McMillan and T. L. Grittie (1987)
One-page industrial hygiene monitoring report dated June 20, 1987, on an area air sample taken 2/13/87 in the Monomers control room after loose insulation fell onto the roof near the ventilation intake. The sample result was
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 19, 1987
L. S. Magelssen and H. W. Wegert to J. R. Dement and Others on Health, Safety and Environmental Review of the South Charleston Asbestos Insulation Removal Upgrade, Phase I (1987)
A May 19, 1987 memo recommending endorsement of Phase I of a project to remove and upgrade asbestos insulation at the South Charleston plant. The endorsement is contingent on revising Maintenance Procedure XVIII to comply with OSHA 29 CFR 1926.58…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 6, 1987
T. L. Grittie, Industrial Hygiene Results: Asbestos Exposure Monitoring of Pipefitter, Insulators and Operators (1987)
Five one-page 'Industrial Hygiene Results' reports, each dated April 6, 1987, giving airborne asbestos fiber results from January and February 1987 sampling. The sampled jobs were removal of an asbestos gasket, glove-bag removal of asbestos from a…