31 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 18, 1967
Union Carbide Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology Documents, Including D. E. Deese on Sandblasting (1967)
The exhibit is a compilation of Union Carbide industrial hygiene papers from a records-center folder labeled 'Industrial Hygiene Reports'. It includes a December 1967 memo on sandblasting and silicosis with respirator and air-supply recommendations…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 13, 1979
D. L. Engle and D. H. Glenn to All Texas City Union Carbide Employees on OSHA Visits and Brain Tumor Investigation (1979)
Letter to Texas City plant employees reporting that OSHA inspected the plant in December 1978 and January 1979 after a former employee raised concern about brain tumors in the Chemical Shipping Area. It says the company found 10 brain tumor deaths…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 9, 1977
Pfizer (P. Bartels) to D. L. Engle, Union Carbide Texas City, on Asbestos in Talc and OSHA Limits, with Texas City Stores List of Asbestos Items (1977)
…Engle, Texas City, Feb. 9, 1977, on OSHA asbestos standards and asbestos content of Pfizer talcs; page 1 carries handwritten routing notes and received stamps Union Carbide internal correspondence, J. L. Christensen to D. E. Deese…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 29, 1972
Minutes of Meeting on Measuring Employee Asbestos Exposure to Meet the Proposed OSHA Standard, submitted by N. H. Ketcham (1972)
Minutes of a February 29, 1972 meeting of Union Carbide plant and Environmental Health Laboratory personnel to plan measurement of employee asbestos exposure under the proposed OSHA standard. The minutes list five objectives, attach an outline…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 29, 1972
N. H. Ketcham Minutes of Meeting on Measuring Employee Exposure to Asbestos Under the Proposed OSHA Standard (1972)
Minutes of a February 29, 1972 meeting of Union Carbide plant and laboratory staff to plan measurement of employee exposure to asbestos in line with the proposed OSHA standard. The minutes list objectives, agreed air-sampling…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 17, 1974
D. E. Deese to Thomas T. Curry (OSHA) Requesting Personnel Monitoring Data from Vinyl Resins Plant Inspection (1974)
…from a Union Carbide senior industrial hygienist to the OSHA Area Director in Houston requesting a copy of personnel monitoring data collected by OSHA compliance officers during their June 1974 inspection of Union Carbide's vinyl…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 18, 1979
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation of Ethylene Oxide Filter Changing at Texas City (1979)
Internal memo from an industrial hygienist reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's October 16, 1979 visit to the Texas City plant to investigate potential employee exposure during changing of ethylene oxide filter cartridges. It describes an…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 17, 1972
D. E. Deese to Gran Townsend on Providing Asbestos Fiber Counts for Brown and Root Samples (1972)
Internal correspondence in which industrial hygienist D. E. Deese confirmed a telephone request from the Brownsville Plant about counting asbestos fibers on samples collected by Brown and Root personnel. He said the department was willing to provide…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 18, 1979
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation of Ethylene Oxide Filter Change at Texas City (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo from an industrial hygienist at Texas City reporting an October 16, 1979 OSHA visit on potential employee exposure during changing of ethylene oxide filter cartridges at the loading rack. It describes the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 7, 1979
J. C. Ledvina to J. H. Barrett and Others on an OSHA Visit to the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal memo reporting a visit by two OSHA representatives to the Texas City plant to discuss ethylene production and ethylene oxide use. It lists nine points from the discussion, including OSHA's interest in brain tumors among plant workers, a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 4, 1971
D. E. Deese to L. T. Windel Transmitting Walsh-Healey Act Materials, with Attached Walsh-Healey Safety Checklists and NAM Analysis (1971)
A February 1971 internal Union Carbide letter from an industrial hygienist to the Brownsville Plant enclosing 1970 Threshold Limit Values, an abstract of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, and a noise paper, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 18, 1967
D. E. Deese on Sandblasting Hazards and Respirator Recommendations at Gulf Coast Plants (1967)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Gulf Coast industrial hygienist, written after industrial hygiene studies of sandblasting at two Gulf Coast plants. It describes silicosis, states that air-supplied abrasive-blasting hoods can protect operators, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 3, 1968
R. E. Joyner, M.D., to Walt Morrison at Seadrift Plant on Asbestos Health Hazards and Dust Controls (1968)
Letter from R. E. Joyner, M.D., to Walt Morrison at the Seadrift Plant, answering questions about asbestos. It describes asbestos as a cause of lung fibrosis, gives a recommended maximum air level, recommends periodic chest x-rays and exams, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 20, 1979
A. P. Yalcinkaya to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Inspection of the Texas City Plant's Solvent Vinyl Resins Drying Building (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's August 17, 1979 visit to the Texas City Plant after an employee complaint about resin dust levels and respirator use in Solvent Vinyl Resins Drying Bldg…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1972
D. E. Deese to Distribution on OSHA Respiratory Protection Requirement for Asbestos Tear-Out (1972)
Memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to a list of Union Carbide recipients reporting OSHA's interpretation of respiratory protection for asbestos tear-out or removal. It states that OSHA's Delbert Flowers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 27, 1976
J. H. Rapp to J. P. Alexander and Others on Coveralls for Insulators, with D. E. Deese Memo on Asbestos Strip Job Monitoring (1976)
Two Texas City memos on asbestos. The first, dated February 27, 1976, from J. H. Rapp to plant personnel, announced that coveralls would be issued to insulators who might be exposed to asbestos fibers above the ceiling level, and gave laundering and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 2, 1973
Industrial Hygiene Preliminary Report on Asbestos Exposure During Kaylo-10 Insulation Clean-up at Oxide II, Plant 510, to P. A. Walden and A. W. Boyd (1973)
Preliminary industrial hygiene report on two air samples taken 9-28-73 in the breath zone of a Brown & Root laborer cleaning up Kaylo-10 insulation torn off a flange on the BOU at Oxide II. Reported results were 2.1 and 1.5 fibers/cc >5 microns,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 27, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. R. Guest on Asbestos Dust Monitoring at the Texas City Plant (1972)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which an industrial hygienist sent H. R. Guest the available asbestos dust study data for the Texas City plant. He listed limits on the data and said asbestos was still in…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 11, 1976
D. E. Deese to D. L. Engle on the OSHA Inspection of the Oxo-Syn Gas Control Room, Texas City (1976)
Letter marked Confidential reporting an OSHA inspection on November 4, 1976 of the Oxo-Syn Gas Control Room (Bldg. 138) at the Texas City plant, made after an employee complaint. It describes the inspectors' air sampling for carbon monoxide, their…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 14, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. B. Coons and Others on the OSHA Permanent Asbestos Standard (1972)
A June 14, 1972 memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to Texas City managers and a physician. It summarizes 18 requirements of OSHA's first permanent asbestos standard, including exposure limits, monitoring, medical examinations…