29 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 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 · October 31, 1969
F. D. Dexter to L. P. Jehle, E. A. Barr and R. D. Bower on Divesting the Calidria Asbestos Business (1969)
…in which F. D. Dexter set out his view that the corporation's interests would be best served by divesting the Calidria asbestos business. He outlined preliminary steps: make it a separate entity, run it with…
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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 · August 8, 1968
F. D. Dexter to R. H. Gregory, Jr. Requesting Information on Making the Asbestos Business a Wholly Owned Subsidiary (1968)
Memo marked 'Business-Confidential, Asbestos' in which F. D. Dexter formalized a request to the Law Department and others for information on making the asbestos business a separate, wholly owned subsidiary of UCC. He listed questions on the tax…
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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 31, 1969
F. D. Dexter to L. P. Jehle, E. A. Barr and R. D. Bower on Divesting the Calidria Asbestos Business (1969)
…F. D. Dexter set out his views on the Calidria asbestos business. He wrote that the corporation's interests would be best served by divesting it, outlined preliminary steps (a separate subsidiary, a few incentivized people…
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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 14, 1968
F. D. Dexter to E. A. Barr and Others Transmitting the Asbestos Workshop Presentation Recommending Divestiture of the Calidria Business (1968)
…1968. It includes an October 14 memo from F. D. Dexter asking permission to send a 'position paper' to Union Carbide's own people, an October 15 cover memo, handwritten notes, and the text of the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 7, 1968
R. S. Wishart, Jr. to F. D. Dexter on Possible Sale of the Calidria Asbestos Project to Johns Manville (1968)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting that Kenneth Rush had spoken with Mr. Burnett of Johns Manville about the Calidria asbestos project and that Burnett would respond in about three weeks. It relays Rush's advice on…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 20, 1969
N. J. Setter to F. D. Dexter, W. S. Young and L. P. Jehle on The Asbestos Market in the Flooring Industry (1969)
Internal Union Carbide memo reviewing the asbestos market in vinyl asbestos (VA) and asphalt floor tile, including estimated tonnages by customer and asbestos source, and the competitive position of Coalinga asbestos. It discusses options for increasing…
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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 · 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…