30 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 · 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 · August 28, 1987
Vance E. Stover and Manhar A. Patel to A. F. Terry on Asbestos Exposure Monitoring of Insulators and Carpenters in Building 701 (1987)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting asbestos exposure monitoring of two insulators and two carpenters during asbestos stripping and enclosure moving in Building 701 on August 17-21, 1987. It states that insulator results were above the…
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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 · January 21, 1987
Manhar A. Patel to B. H. Avashia, M.D. and Others on Asbestos Respiratory and Medical Surveillance Requirements, with OSHA Standard Excerpts (1987)
Internal Union Carbide memo from Manhar A. Patel transmitting the respiratory protection and medical surveillance requirements of the OSHA asbestos standard for asbestos abatement jobs. It discusses medical questionnaires, six-month respirator fit tests, training, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 21, 1987
Manhar A. Patel to B. H. Avashia, M.D., and Others on Asbestos Respiratory and Medical Surveillance Requirements, with OSHA Standard Excerpts (1987)
A two-page Union Carbide internal memo of January 21, 1987, from Manhar A. Patel to medical, safety and engineering staff, forwarding the respirator and medical surveillance requirements of the OSHA asbestos standard for asbestos abatement…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 7, 1986
A. F. Terry to T. L. Collins and Others on Asbestos Exposure Monitoring of Steam Line Stripping, Building 726 (1986)
Internal Union Carbide memo transmitting asbestos air-monitoring results for two employees, R. P. Hess and F. R. Creech, who stripped asbestos insulation from steam lines outside and inside the Building 726 compressor room on September…
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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 · April 6, 1987
Manhar A. Patel to R. E. Sergent on Asbestos Training for Services Department Personnel (1987)
Internal memo from an industrial hygienist transmitting slides used to train Services Department employees who are not routinely involved in asbestos abatement but may be exposed to asbestos in their work. The memo states that HEPA respirators are…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 15, 1987
V. E. Stover and M. A. Patel to C. W. Wible on Asbestos Exposure Monitoring of Workers Pulling Cable in Building 770 (1987)
Internal Union Carbide memo transmitting results of non-abatement asbestos exposure monitoring on two employees, J. A. Ingram and W. S. Ballingall, who pulled computer cable above ceiling tile and through service shafts in Building 770…
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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 · 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 · April 17, 1985
I. L. Beckett to J. F. Dodd and Others on Project Scope for Safety/Health Insulation, No. 2 Powerhouse, Building 151 (1985)
Memorandum setting out a project scope for removing, replacing or sealing deteriorated asbestos insulation in the No. 2 Powerhouse (Building 151) at South Charleston, West Virginia. It describes the capital and removal work, safety and environmental…
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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…