28 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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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 · May 5, 1987
R. S. Newberger and J. K. Kyle Memos on Asbestos Disposal and Ceiling Contamination at the Sistersville, WV Plant (1987)
Two Union Carbide memoranda from the Sistersville, West Virginia plant. The first (May 5, 1987) reports that asbestos insulation was being stripped in the Silanes Department and that the burial location was full. The second (April…
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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 · May 7, 1987
G. W. Wulfert to F. E. Dailey and Others on Future Asbestos Disposal Sites at Sistersville (1987)
Memorandum dated May 7, 1987 stating that the Sistersville plant's asbestos disposal landfill was nearing the end of its life and that a new plan was needed. It called a meeting on May 26, 1987 at 1 PM in Building 33 to develop that plan.…
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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 · 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 · May 27, 1987
G. W. Wulfert Minutes of the 'Future Asbestos Disposal Site(s)' Meeting, with Related Memos on the Sistersville Asbestos Landfill (1987)
Union Carbide Sistersville, WV plant memos from May 1987 about the plant's asbestos landfill, which held asbestos insulation removed from plant equipment. The May 27 minutes record an estimate that the present landfill had about…
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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 · 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 · 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 · January 9, 1987
C. R. Rotthoff to W. J. Vincent on South Charleston Provisions for Asbestos Material Removal and Disposal (1987)
Internal correspondence in which C. R. Rotthoff commented on W. J. Vincent's South Charleston asbestos removal document, saying it assumed no technology exists to keep asbestos below the PEL. He suggested identifying which steps are mandatory…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 31, 1984
D. A. Gosselin to John Buzzard on Laundering Asbestos-Contaminated Clothing under the OSHA Standard (1984)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which D. A. Gosselin responded to John Buzzard's letter about laundering asbestos-contaminated clothing under OSHA Standard 1910.1001. He recommended that a letter be sent to the owner of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 2, 1987
L. S. Magelssen and H. W. Wegert to J. F. Dodd and Others on Status of Contingency Items for Asbestos Insulation Removal Upgrade, South Charleston (1987)
Memorandum reporting that two contingency items attached to the May 19, 1987 endorsement of the South Charleston asbestos insulation removal upgrade (Phase I) had been resolved. It says the February 1987 asbestos maintenance procedures were reviewed…
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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 · 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…